tes simply our right to the
political franchise.

To which, Mrs. Mott replied: I would state that the limitation of
the discussions was not anticipated at the last Convention. The
issuing of the call was left to the Central Committee, but it was
not supposed that they would specify any particular part of the
labor of the Convention, but that the broad ground of the
presentation of the wrongs of woman, the assertion of her rights,
and the encouragement to perseverance in individual and combined
action, and the restoration of those rights, should be taken.

After which, Mrs. Gage added: I would remark once for all, to the
Convention, that there is perfect liberty given here to speak
upon the subject under discussion, both for and against; and that
we urge all to do so. If there are any who have objections, we
wish to hear them. If arguments are presented which convince us
that we are doing wrong, we wish to act upon them. I extremely
regret that while we have held convention after convention, where
the same liberty has been given, no one has had a word to say
against us at the time, but that some have reserved their hard
words of opposition to our movement, only to go away and vent
them through the newspapers, amounting, frequently, to gross
misrepresentation. I hope every one here will remember, with deep
seriousness, that the same Almighty finger which traced upon the
tablets of stone the commands, "Thou shalt not kill," "Thou shalt
not steal," traced also these words, "Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor."

The other officers of the Convention were then elected, as follows:

_Vice-Presidents_--Antoinette L. Brown, New York; Lucretia Mott,
Pennsylvania; Caroline M. Severance, Ohio; Joseph Barker, Ohio;
Emily Robinson, Ohio; Mary B. Birdsall, Indiana; Sibyl Lawrence,
Michigan; Charles P. Wood, New York; Amy Post, New York.

_Secretaries_--Martha C. Wright, New York; Caroline Stanton,
Ohio; H. B. Blackwell, Ohio.

_Treasurer_--T. C. Severance, Ohio.

_Business Committee_--Ernestine L. Rose, New York; James Mott,
Pennsylvania; Lucy Stone, Massachusetts; Wm. Lloyd Garrison,
Mass.; Abby Kelly Foster, Mass.; Mary T. Corner, Ohio; C. C.
Burleigh, Connecticut; Martha J. Tilden, Ohio; John O. Wattles,
Indiana.

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