outset with
the stern rebuke of every true patriot and friend of humanity.

2. _Resolved_, That this Government _still_ upholds slavery by
military as well as civil power, and is, therefore, itself, still
in daring rebellion against the GOD OF JUSTICE, before whom
Jefferson "trembled" and whose "exterminating thunders" he warned
us would be our destruction, unless, by "the diffusion of light
and liberality," we were led to exterminate it forever from the
land.

3. _Resolved_, That until the old union with slavery be broken,
and the Constitution so amended as to secure the elective
franchise to all citizens who bear arms, or are taxed to support
the Government, we have no foundations on which to build a TRUE
REPUBLIC.

4. WHEREAS, The _Anti_ or _Pro_-slavery character of the
Constitution has long been a question of dispute among statesmen
and judges, as well as reformers, therefore

_Resolved_, That we demand for the NEW NATION a NEW CONSTITUTION,
in which the guarantee of liberty and equality to every human
being shall be so plainly and clearly written as never again to
be called in question.

5. _Resolved_, That we demand for black men not only the right to
be sailors, soldiers, and laborers under equal pay and protection
with white men, but the right of suffrage, that only safeguard of
civil liberty, without which emancipation is but mockery.

6. _Resolved_, That women now acting as nurses in our hospitals,
who are regular graduates of medicine, should be recognized as
physicians and surgeons, and receive the same remuneration for
their services as men.

7. _Resolved_, That the failure of the Administration to protect
our black troops against such outrages as were long ago
officially threatened, and fearfully perpetrated at Port Hudson,
Milliken's Bend, Olustee, and Fort Pillow, is but added proof of
its _heartless character_ or _utter incapacity_ to conduct the
war.

8. _Resolved_, That when the men of a nation, in a political
party, consecrate themselves to "Freedom and Peace" and declare
their high resolve to found a Republic on the principles of
justice, they have lifted politics into the sphere of morals and
religion, where it is the duty of women to be co-workers with
them in giving immortal life to the