he speaker to appoint a committee on the
rights of women.

_Resolved_, That the giant labor reform of this age lies in
securing to woman, the great unpaid and unrecognized laborer and
producer of the whole earth, the fruits of her toil.

_Resolved_, That the theory of a masculine head to rule the
family, the church, or the State, is contrary to republican
principles, and the fruitful source of rebellion and corruption.

_Resolved_, That the assumption of the clergy, that woman has no
right to participate in the ministry and offices of the church is
unauthorized theocratic tyranny, placing a masculine mediator
between woman and her God, which finds no authority in reason,
and should be resisted by all women as an odious form of
religious persecution.

_Resolved_, That it is the duty of the congress of the United
States to provide a reform school for girls and a home for the
children whom no man owns or protects, and who are left to die
upon the streets of the nation's capital, or to grow up in
ignorance, vice and crime.

_Resolved_, That since man has everywhere committed to woman the
custody and ownership of the child born out of wedlock, and has
required it to bear its mother's name, he should recognize
woman's right as a mother to the custody of the child born in
marriage, and permit it to bear her name.

_Resolved_, That the National Association will send a delegate
and an alternate to each presidential nominating convention to
demand the rights of woman, and to submit to each party the
following plank for presidential platform: _Resolved_, That the
right to use the ballot _inheres_ in the citizen of the United
States, and we pledge ourselves to secure protection in the
exercise of this right to all citizens irrespective of sex.

_Resolved_, That one-half of the number of the supervisors of the
tenth census, and one-half of the collectors of said census,
should be educated, intelligent women, who can be safely
entrusted to enumerate women and children, their occupations,
ages, diseases and deaths, and who would not be likely to
overlook ten millions of housekeepers.

_Resolved_, That Ulysses S. Grant won his first victories through
the military plans and rare genius of a woman, Anna Ella Carroll,
of Maryland, and wh