ly realized,

"That men and women have one glory and one shame;
Everything that's done inhuman injures all of us the same."

Never, till woman stands side by side with man, his equal in the
eye of the law as well as the Creator, will the high destiny of
the race be accomplished. She is the mother of the race, and
every stain of littleness or inferiority cast upon her by our
institutions will soil the offspring she sends into the world,
and clip and curtail to that extent his fair proportions. If we
would abrogate that littleness of her character which finds a
delight in the gewgaws of fashion, and an enjoyment in the narrow
sphere of gossipping, social life, or tea-table scandal, so long
the ridicule of our sex; open to her new and more ennobling
fields of activity and thought--fields, the exploration of which
has filled the American males with great thoughts, and made them
the foremost people of the world, and which will place the
American females on their level, and make them truly helps meet
for them. When we can add to the men of America a race of women
educated side by side with them, and enjoying equal advantages
with them in all respects, we may expect an offspring of giants
in the comprehension and application of the great truths which
involve human rights and human happiness.

These petitions ask that the necessary steps may be taken to
strike from the Constitution the legal distinction of sex. Your
Committee is in favor of the prayer of the petitions; but, under
the most favorable circumstances, that is a result which could
not be attained in less than two years. In all probability, it
will not be longer than that before the Constitution will come up
directly for revision, which will be a proper, appropriate, and
favorable time to press the question.

Your Committee, therefore, introduces no bill, and recommends no
action at present.

All of which is respectfully submitted. C. L. SHOLES.

This able report was the result, in a great measure, of the agitation
started by Mrs. Nichols and Mrs. Fowler in 1853, and by Lucy Stone's
lecturing tour in 1855, thus proving that no true words or brave deeds
are ever lost. The experiences of these noble pioneers in their first
visits to Wisconsin, though in many respects trying and disco