ation of their rulers.

THE CALL.

A Convention will be held at Worcester, Mass., on the 23d and
24th of October next, to consider the question of Woman's Rights,
Duties, and Relations. The men and women who feel sufficient
interest in the subject to give an earnest thought and effective
effort to its rightful adjustment, are invited to meet each other
in free conference at the time and place appointed.

The upward tending spirit of the age, busy in an hundred forms of
effort for the world's redemption from the sins and sufferings
which oppress it, has brought this one, which yields to none in
importance and urgency, into distinguished prominence. One-half
the race are its immediate objects, and the other half are as
deeply involved, by that absolute unity of interest and destiny
which Nature has established between them. The neighbor is near
enough to involve every human being in a general equality of
rights and community of interests; but men and women in their
reciprocities of love and duty, are one flesh and one blood;
mother, sister, wife, and daughter come so near the heart and
mind of every man, that they must be either his blessing or his
bane. Where there is such mutuality of interests, such an
interlinking of life, there can be no real antagonism of position
and action. The sexes should not, for any reason or by any
chance, take hostile attitudes toward each other, either in the
apprehension or amendment of the wrongs which exist in their
necessary relations; but they should harmonize in opinion and
co-operate in effort, for the reason that they must unite in the
ultimate achievement of the desired reformation.

Of the many points now under discussion, and demanding a just
settlement; the general question of woman's rights and relations
comprehends these: Her education--literary, scientific, and
artistic; her avocations--industrial, commercial, and
professional; her interests--pecuniary, civil, and political; in
a word, her rights as an individual, and her functions as a
citizen.

No one will pretend that all these interests, embracing as they
do all that is not merely animal in a human life, are rightly
understood, or justly provided for in the existing social order.
Nor is it any more tru