eley defends the Rights of Women in _The York
Tribune_--The Teachers' State Conventions--The Syracuse National
Woman's Rights Convention, 1852--Mob in the Broadway Tabernacle
Woman's Rights Convention through two days, 1853--State Woman's
Rights Convention at Rochester, December, 1853--Albany
Convention, February, 1854, and Hearing before the Legislature
demanding the Right of Suffrage--A State Committee
Appointed--Susan B. Anthony General Agent--Conventions at
Saratoga Springs, 1854, '55, '59--Annual State Conventions with
Legislative Hearings and Reports of Committees, until the
War--Married Women's Property Law, 1860--Bill before the
Legislature Granting Divorce for Drunkenness--Horace Greeley and
Thurlow Weed oppose it--Ernestine L. Rose, Lucretia Mott, and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Address the Legislature in favor of the
Bill--Robert Dale Owen defends the Measure in _The New York
Tribune_--National Woman's Rights Conventions in New York City,
1856, '58, '59, '60--Status of the Woman's Rights Movement at the
Opening of the War, 1861.

A full report of the woman's rights agitation in the State of New
York, would in a measure be the history of the movement. In this
State, the preliminary battles in the anti-slavery, temperance,
educational, and religious societies were fought; the first
Governmental aid given to the higher education of woman, and her voice
first heard in teachers' associations. Here the first Woman's Rights
Convention was held, the first demand made for suffrage, the first
society formed for this purpose, and the first legislative efforts
made to secure the civil and political rights of women; commanding the
attention of leading members of the bar; of Savage, Spencer, Hertell,
and Hurlbut. Here too the pulpit made the first demand for the
political rights of woman. Here was the first temperance society
formed by women, the first medical college opened to them, and woman
first ordained for the ministry.

In 1850, in the city of Buffalo, 1,500 women petitioned the Common
Council not to license the sale of intoxicating drinks; and the
following year, they sent a petition to the Legislature, signed by
2,200, asking for an act authorizing some official body to take into
custody, and provide for the swarms of vagrant children, growing up in
ignorance and vice. This may be considered the initiative step to a
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