ssing. Miss Stone must be
set down as a lady of no common abilities, and of uncommon energy
in the pursuit of a cherished idea. She is a marked favorite in
the Conventions.

During the proceedings, Miss Brown, in a long speech on the Bible,
had expounded many doctrines and passages of Scripture in regard to
woman's position, in direct opposition to the truths generally
promulgated by General Assemblies, and the lesser lights of the
Church. Mrs. Emma R. Coe took an equally defiant position toward the
Bench and the Bar, coolly assuming that she understood the spirit of
Constitutions and Statute Laws. Some lawyer had made a criticism on
the woman's petition then circulating in Ohio, and essayed to give the
Convention some light on the laws of the State, to all of which Mrs.
Coe says:

I have very little to say this evening beyond reading a letter,
received by me to-day. (Here follows the letter). I beg leave to
inform the gentleman, if he is present, that I believe I
understand these laws, and this point particularly, very nearly
as well as himself; and that I am well acquainted with the laws
passed since 1840, as with those enacted previous to that time. I
would also inform him that the committee, some of whom are much
better read in law than myself, were perfectly aware of the
existence of the statutes he mentions, but did not see fit to
incorporate them into the petition, not only on account of their
great length, but because they do not at all invalidate the
position which the petition affects to establish, viz: the
inequality of the sexes before the law. Their insertion,
therefore, would have been utterly superfluous. This letter
refers, evidently, to that portion of the petition which treats
of the equalization of property, which I will now read. (Then
follows the reading of one paragraph of the petition). Again I
refer you to the letter, the first paragraph of which is as
follows:

"Mrs. Emma R. Coe, will you look at Vol. 44, General Laws of
Ohio, page 75, where you will find that the property of the wife
can not be taken for the debts of her husband, etc.; and all
articles of household furniture, and goods which a wife shall
have brought with her in marriage, or which shall have come to
her by bequest, gift, etc., after marriage, or purchased with her
separate money o