eem and affection
for the first woman physician, who had done so much to relieve the
sufferings of women and children. The degree of M.D. was conferred on
her by "The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania," in 1853. Her
biographer says she honored the title more than the title could her.

MARRIAGE OF LUCY STONE UNDER PROTEST.

It was my privilege to celebrate May day by officiating at a
wedding in a farm-house among the hills of West Brookfield. The
bridegroom was a man of tried worth, a leader in the Western
Anti-Slavery Movement; and the bride was one whose fair name is
known throughout the nation; one whose rare intellectual
qualities are excelled by the private beauty of her heart and
life.

I never perform the marriage ceremony without a renewed sense of
the iniquity of our present system of laws in respect to
marriage; a system by which "man and wife are one, and that one
is the husband." It was with my hearty concurrence, therefore,
that the following protest was read and signed, as a part of the
nuptial ceremony; and I send it to you, that others may be
induced to do likewise.

Rev. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.

PROTEST.

While acknowledging our mutual affection by publicly assuming the
relationship of husband and wife, yet in justice to ourselves and
a great principle, we deem it a duty to declare that this act on
our part implies no sanction of, nor promise of voluntary
obedience to such of the present laws of marriage, as refuse to
recognize the wife as an independent, rational being, while they
confer upon the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority,
investing him with legal powers which no honorable man would
exercise, and which no man should possess. We protest especially
against the laws which give to the husband:

1. The custody of the wife's person.

2. The exclusive control and guardianship of their children.

3. The sole ownership of her personal, and use of her real
estate, unless previously settled upon her, or placed in the
hands of trustees, as in the case of minors, lunatics, and
idiots.

4. The absolute right to the product of her industry.

5. Also against laws which give to the widower so much larger and
more permanent