ct of this change, which she would gladly do but for a severe
cold, which prevents her from making herself heard. For twenty
years we have pressed the claims of woman to the right of
representation in the government. The first National Woman's
Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Mass., in 1850, and each
successive year conventions were held in different cities of the
Free States--Worcester, Syracuse, Cleveland, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, and New York--until the rebellion. Since then, till
now, we have held no conventions. Up to this hour, we have looked
to State action only for the recognition of our rights; but now,
by the results of the war, the whole question of suffrage
reverts back to Congress and the U. S. Constitution. The duty of
Congress at this moment is to declare what shall be the basis of
representation in a republican form of government. There is,
there can be, but one true basis; and that is that taxation must
give representation; hence our demand must now go beyond
woman--it must extend to the farthest bound of the principle of
the "consent of the governed," as the only authorized or just
government. We, therefore, wish to broaden our Woman's Rights
platform, and make it in _name_--what it ever has been in
_spirit_--a Human Rights platform. It has already been stated
that we have petitioned Congress the past winter to so amend the
Constitution as to prohibit disfranchisement on account of sex.
We were roused to this work by the several propositions to
prohibit negro disfranchisement in the rebel States, which at the
same time put up a new bar against the enfranchisement of women.
As women we can no longer _seem_ to claim for ourselves what we
do not for others--nor can we work in two separate movements to
get the ballot for the two disfranchised classes--the negro and
woman--since to do so must be at double cost of time, energy, and
money.

New York is to hold a Constitutional Convention the coming year.
We want to make a thorough canvass of the entire State, with
lectures, tracts, and petitions, and, if possible, create a
public sentiment that shall send genuine Democrats and
Republicans to that Convention who shall strike out from our
Constitution the two adjectives "_white male_," giving to every
citizen, over twen