INDEPENDENT WOMEN VS. MALE DOMINANCE

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct objects the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let the facts be submitted to a candid world.

1. he has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.

2. he has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.

3. he has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men-both natives and foreigners.

4. having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, therby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has opressed her on all sides.

5. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
he has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.

6. He has made her, morally, and irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master-the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.

7. He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she considers most honorable to himself. As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known.

8. He had denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education-all colleges being closed against her.

9. He has created a false public sentiment, by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man.

10. He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...

Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation, In view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themelves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the united states.

We anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to affect our object.....