ramed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the
proper causes, and in case of separation, to whom the
guardianship of the children shall be given, as to be wholly
regardless of the happiness of women--the law, in all cases,
going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man, and
giving all power into his hands.

After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single,
and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a
government which recognizes her only when her property can be
made profitable to it.

He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and
from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty
remuneration. He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and
distinction which he considers most honorable to himself. As a
teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known.

He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough
education, all colleges being closed against her.

He allows her in Church, as well as State, but a subordinate
position, claiming Apostolic authority for her exclusion from the
ministry, and, with some exceptions, from any public
participation in the affairs of the Church.

He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a
different code of morals for men and women, by which moral
delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only
tolerated, but deemed of little account in man.

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as
his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs
to her conscience and to her God.

He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her
confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to
make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the
people of this country, their social and religious
degradation--in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and
because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and
fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that
they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges
which belong to them as citizens of the United States.

In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small
amount of misc