etend to know exactly what woman's rights are; but I do
know that I have groaned for forty years, yea, for fifty years,
under a sense of woman's wrongs. I know that even when a girl, I
groaned under the idea that I could not receive as much
instruction as my brothers could. I wanted to be what I felt I
was capable of becoming, but opportunity was denied me. I rejoice
in the progress that has been made. I rejoice that so many women
are here; it denotes that they are waking up to some sense of
their situation. One of my sisters observed that she had received
great kindness as a wife, mother, sister, and daughter. I, too,
have brethren in various directions, both those that are natural,
and those that are spiritual brethren, as I understand the
matter; and I rejoice to say I have found, I say it to the honor
of my brothers, I have found more men than women, who were
impressed with the wrongs under which our sex labor, and felt the
need of reformation. I rejoice in this fact.

Rebecca B. Spring followed with some pertinent remarks. Mrs. Emma E.
Coe reviewed in a strain of pungent irony the State Laws in relation
to woman. In discussing the resolutions, Charles List, Esq., of
Boston, said:

I lately saw a book wherein the author in a very eloquent, but
highly wrought sentence, speaks of woman as "the connecting link
between man and heaven." I think this asks too much, and I deny
the right of woman to assume such a prerogative; all I claim is
that woman should be raised by noble aspiration to the loftiest
moral elevation, and thus be fitted to train men up to become
worthy companions for the pure, high-minded beings which all
women should strive to be. A great duty rests on woman, and it
becomes you not to lose a moment in securing for yourselves every
right and privilege, whereby you maybe elevated and so prepared
to exert the influence which man so much needs. Women fall far
short now of exerting the moral influence intrusted to them as
mothers and wives, consequently men are imperfectly developed in
their higher nature.

Mrs. Nichols rejoined: Woman has been waiting for centuries
expecting man to go before and lift her up, but he has failed to
meet our expectations, and now comes the call that she should
first grasp heaven and pull man up after her.