woman, for the first time, has taken her place in one of our
regular medical colleges. We rejoice to hear that by her dignity
of manner, application to study, and devotion to the several
branches of the profession she has chosen, she has secured the
respect of her professors and class, and reflected lasting honor
upon her whole sex. Thus we hail, in Elizabeth Blackwell, a
pioneer for woman in this profession.

It is by this inverted order of society that woman is obliged to
ply the needle by day and by night, to procure even a scanty
pittance for her dependent family. Let men become producers, as
nature has designed them, and women be educated to fill all those
stations which require less physical strength, and we should soon
modify many of our social evils. I am informed by the
seamstresses of this city, that they get but thirty cents for
making a satin vest, and from twelve to thirty for making pants,
and coats in the same proportion. Man has such a contemptible
idea of woman, that he thinks she can not even sew as well as he
can; and he often goes to a tailor, and pays him double and even
treble for making a suit, when it merely passes through his
hands, after a woman has made every stitch of it so neatly that
he discovers no difference. Who does not see gross injustice in
this inequality of wages and violation of rights? To prove that
woman is capable of prosecuting the mercantile business, we have
a noble example in this city in Mrs. Gifford, who has sustained
herself with credit. She has bravely triumphed over all obloquy
and discouragement attendant on such a novel experiment, and made
for herself an independent living.

In the fields of benevolence, woman has done great and noble
works for the safety and stability of the nation. When man shall
see the wisdom of recognizing a co-worker in her, then may be
looked for the dawning of a perfect day, when woman shall stand
where God designed she should, on an even platform with man
himself.

Mrs. Roberts, who had been requested to investigate the wrongs of the
laboring classes, and to invite that oppressed portion of the
community to attend the Convention, and take part in its
deliberations, made some appropriate remarks relative to the
intolerable servitude and small remuneration paid to the working-cl