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men, they ought to have the same opportunity with men to
exert a political power in their behalf.

_Resolved_, That in the alarming prevalence of public
dishonesty and private immorality, which the present forces
on the side of public and private virtue are proving wholly
unable to control, it is our firm conviction that women,
educated to the responsibilities of a participation with men
in political rights, would bring to the aid of virtuous men
a new and powerful element of good, which cannot be spared,
and for which there can be no substitute.

_Resolved_, That in advocating the opening to woman of this
larger sphere, we do not undervalue her relations as a wife
and mother, than which none can be more worthy of a true
woman's love and pride; but it is only by a full development
of her faculties and a wide range for her thought that she
can become the true companion of an intelligent husband, and
the wise and inspiring educator of her children; while mere
domestic life furnishes no occupation to the great number of
women who never marry, and a very inadequate one to those
who, at middle age, with large experience and ripe wisdom,
find their children grown up around them and no longer
needing their care.

_Resolved_, That all laws which recognize a superior right
in the husband to the children whom the wife has borne, or a
right on the part of the husband to the property of the
wife, beyond the right given to her in his property, and all
laws which hold that husband and wife do not stand in all
respects in the relation of equals, ought to be abrogated,
and the perfect equality of husband and wife established.

_Resolved_, That this equality of position and rights we
believe to have been intended by the Creator as the ultimate
perfection of the social state, when he said, "Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness, and let THEM have
dominion"; and to have been a part of our Savior's plan for
a perfect Christian society, in which an Apostle says,
"there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor
female."

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