today are for a wider
range of employment, higher wages, thorough mental and physical
education, and an equal right before the law in all those relations
which grow out of the marriage state. While we yield to none in the
earnestness of our advocacy of these claims, we make a broader demand
for the enfranchisement of woman, as the only way in which all her just
rights can be permanently secured. By discussing, as we shall
incidentally, leading questions of political and social importance, we
hope to educate women for an intelligent judgment upon public affairs,
and for a faithful expression of that judgment at the polls.

As masculine ideas have ruled the race for six thousand years, we
especially desire that The Revolution shall be the mouth piece of
women, to give the world the feminine thought in politics, religion and
social life; so that ultimately in the union of both we may find the
truth in all things. On the idea taught by the creeds, codes and
customs of the world, that woman was made for man, we declare war to
the death, and proclaim the higher truth that, like man, she was
created by God for individual moral responsibility and progress here
and forever.

Our principal contributors this year are: Anna Dickinson, Isabella
Beecher Hooker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice and Phoebe Cary, Olive
Logan, Mary Clemmer, Mrs. Theodore Tilton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Phoebe
Couzins, Elizabeth Boynton and others; and foreign, Rebecca Moore,
Lydia E. Becker and Madame Marie Goeg.

The Revolution is an independent journal, bound to no party or sect,
and those who write for our columns are responsible only for what
appears under their own names. Hence, if old Abolitionists and
Slaveholders, Republicans and Democrats, Presbyterians and
Universalists, Catholics and Protestants find themselves side by side
in writing on the question, of woman suffrage, they must pardon each
other's differences on all other points, trusting that by giving their
own views strongly and grandly, they will overshadow the errors by
their side.]

[Footnote 56: Frances Wright, from Scotland, in 1828 was the first
woman to speak on a public platform in this country. Ernestine L. Rose,
from Poland, gave political lectures in 1836; Mary S. Gove, of New
York, lectured oil woman's rights in 1837; Sarah and Angelina Grimke,
from South Carolina, commenced their anti-slavery speeches in 1837, and
Abby Kelly, of Massachusetts, in 1839; Eliza W. Farnham, of New