nd represented by letter there, than in these Worcester
Conventions, which called out numerous complimentary comments and
editorial notices, notably the following:

[_From the New York Christian Inquirer_, Rev. Henry Bellows,
D.D., editor.]

THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION AT WORCESTER.

We have read the report of the proceedings of this Convention
with lively interest and general satisfaction. We confess
ourselves to be much surprised at the prevailing good sense,
propriety, and moral elevation of the meeting. No candid reader
can deny the existence of singular ability, honest and pure aims,
eloquent and forcible advocacy, and a startling power in the
reports and speeches of this Convention. For good, or for evil,
it seems to us to be the most important meeting since that held
in the cabin of the _Mayflower_. That meeting recognized the
social and political equality of one-half the human race; this
asserts the social and political equality of the other half, and
of the whole. Imagine the difference which it would have made in
our Declaration of Independence, to have inserted "and women" in
the first clause of the self-evident truths it asserts: "that all
men _and women_ are created equal." This Convention declares this
to be the true interpretation of the Declaration, and at any
rate, designs to amend the popular reading of the instrument to
this effect. Nor is it a theoretical change which is aimed at. No
more practical or tremendous revolution was ever sought in
society, than that which this Woman's Rights Convention
inaugurates. To emancipate half the human race from its present
position of dependence on the other half; to abolish every
distinction between the sexes that can be abolished, or which is
maintained by statute or conventional usage; to throw open all
the employments of society with equal freedom to men and women;
to allow no difference whatsoever, in the eye of the law, in
their duties or their rights, this, we submit, is a reform,
surpassing, in pregnancy of purpose and potential results, any
other now upon the platform, if it do not outweigh Magna Charta
and our Declaration themselves.

We very well recollect the scorn with which the annual procession
of the first Abolitionists was greeted in Boston, some thirty