st Convention at Cleveland,
called the assembly to order, and read

THE CALL.

In accordance with a vote passed at the adjournment of the
Woman's Rights Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, in October,
1853, the Fifth National Convention will be held in Philadelphia,
October 18th, to continue three days. The subjects for
consideration will be the Equal Right of Woman to all the
advantages of education, literary, scientific, artistic; to full
equality in all business avocations, industrial, commercial,
professional; briefly, all the rights that belong to her as a
citizen.

This wide range of subjects for discussion can not fail to awaken
the attention of all classes; hence we invite all persons
irrespective of sex or color to take part in the deliberations of
the Convention, and thus contribute to the progress of truth and
the redemption of humanity.

On behalf of the Central Committee,

PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS, _President_.
ANTOINETTE L. BROWN, _Secretary_.

The following officers were chosen for the Convention:

PRESIDENT.--Ernestine L. Rose, of New York.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.--Lucretia Mott, Philadelphia; Frances D. Gage,
Missouri; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts; Martha C.
Wright, New York; Thomas Garrett, Delaware; Hannah Tracy Cutler,
Illinois; Robert Purvis; Pennsylvania; John O. Wattles, Indiana;
Marenda B. Randall, Vermont; George Sunter, Canada.

SECRETARIES.--Joseph A. Dugdale, Abby Kimber, Hannah M.
Darlington.

BUSINESS COMMITTEE.--Lucy Stone, William Lloyd Garrison, Myra
Townsend, Mary P. Wilson, Sarah Pugh, Lydia Mott, Mary Grew.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.--Susan B. Anthony, James Mott, Ruth Dugdale,
Rebecca Plumbly.

Mrs. Rose, on taking the chair, said:

There is one argument which in my estimation is the argument of
arguments, why woman should have her rights; not on account of
expediency, not on account of policy, though these too show the
reasons why she should have her rights; but we claim--I for one
claim, and I presume all our friends claim--our rights on the
broad ground of human rights; and I for one again will say, I
promise not how we shall use them. I will no more promise how we
shall use our rights th