onception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we
shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our
object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the
State and National legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the
pulpit and the press in our behalf. We hope this Convention will
be followed by a series of Conventions embracing every part of
the country.

The following resolutions were discussed by Lucretia Mott, Thomas and
Mary Ann McClintock, Amy Post, Catharine A. F. Stebbins, and others,
and were adopted:

WHEREAS, The great precept of nature is conceded to be, that "man
shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness." Blackstone
in his Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being
coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course
superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the
globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of
any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid,
derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their
authority, mediately and immediately, from this original;
therefore.

_Resolved_, That such laws as conflict, in any way, with the true
and substantial happiness of woman, are contrary to the great
precept of nature and of no validity, for this is "superior in
obligation to any other."

_Resolved_, That all laws which prevent woman from occupying such
a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which
place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to
the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or
authority.

_Resolved_, That woman is man's equal--was intended to be so by
the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she
should be recognized as such.

_Resolved_, That the women of this country ought to be
enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that
they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring
themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their
ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.

_Resolved_, That inasmuch as man, while claiming for himself
intellectual superiority, does accord to woman moral superiority,
it is pre-eminently his duty to encourage her to speak and teach,
as she has an opport