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Speech, October 15-16, 1851, 21 pp.: ''Freedom For Women: Speech of Wendell Phillips, Esq., at the Convention Held at Worcester,'' regarding women's right to vote, attain the education and employment of their choice, etc.

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Freedom for Women. ------------------ Speech of Wendell Phillips, ESQ., at the Convention Held at Worcester, October 15 and 16, 1851. ------------------ The following resolutions were under consideration: 1. Resolved, That while we would not undervalue other methods, the Right of Suffrage for Women is, in our opinion, the corner-stone of this enterprise, since we do not seek to protect women, but rather to place her in a position to protect herself. 2. Resolved, That it will be woman’s fault if, the ballot once in her hand, all the barbarous, demoralizing and unequal laws, relating to marriage and property, do not speedily vanish from the statute-book; and while we acknowledge that the hope of a share in the higher professions and profitable employments of society is one of the strongest motives to intellectual culture, we know, also, that an interest in political questions is an equally powerful stimulus; and we see, beside, that we do our best to insure education to an individual, when we put the ballot into his hands; it being so clearly the interest of the community that one upon whose decisions depend its welfare and safety should both have free access to the best means of education, and be urged to make use of them. 3. Resolved, That we do not feel called upon to assert or establish the equality of the sexes, in an intellectual or any other point of view. It is enough for our argument that natural and political justice, and the avions of English and American liberty, alike determines that rights and burdens- taxation and representation- should be coextensive; hence women, as individual citizens, liable to punishment for acts which the law calls criminal, or to be taxed in their labor and property for the support of government, have a self-evident and indisputable right, identically the same right that men have, to