ject of the Seneca Falls Declaration, he said:

I can only judge of the effect of anything upon the public mind,
by its effect upon my own. It has been suggested that that
Declaration is a parody. Now you can not present a parody,
without getting up a laugh; and wherever it goes, it will never
be seriously considered. If a declaration is to be made, it
should be one that will be seriously considered by the public. I
would suggest that the Declaration of this Convention be entirely
independent of the other.

I have a remark to make upon a sentiment advanced by Mrs. Rose. I
have this objection to the Declaration upon which she commented.
It is asserted there, that man has created a certain public
sentiment, and it is brought as a charge against the male sex.
Now I assert, that man never created that sentiment. I say it is
a wrong state of society totally, when, if woman shall be
degraded, a man committing the same offense shall not be degraded
also. There is perfect agreement between us there. But, that
Declaration charges that sentiment upon man. Now I assert that it
is chargeable upon woman herself; and that as she was first in
man's original transgression, she is first here.

Mrs. ROSE: I heartily agree that we are both in fault; and yet we
are none in fault. I also said, that woman, on account of the
position in which she has been placed, by being dependent upon
man, by being made to look up to man, is the first to cast out
her sister. I know it and deplore it; hence I wish to give her
her rights, to secure her dependence upon herself. In regard to
that sentiment in the Declaration, our friend said that woman
created it. Is woman really the creator of the sentiment? The
laws of a country create sentiments. Who make the laws? Does
woman? Our law-makers give the popular ideas of morality.

Mr. BARKER: And the pulpit.

Mrs. ROSE: I ought to have thought of it: not only do the
law-makers give woman her ideas of morality, but our pulpit
preachers. I beg pardon--no, I do not either--for Antoinette L.
Brown is not a priest. Our priests have given us public sentiment
called morals, and they have always made or recognized in daily
life, distinctions between man and woman. Man, from the time of
Adam to the present, has had utmost license, wh