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[Mrs Stanton offered a resolution respecting the wages of house servants which she thought quite too low for the labour they perform, and spoke of ^urged^ the necessity of reformers commencing at home.

[Mrs Mott said our aim should be to elevate the lowly and aid the weak_ she compared the condition of woman with that of the free colored population, and dwelt upon the progress they had made within the past few years. urging imitation of their perseverance through opposition and predjudice. And ^said^ While woman is regarded as an inferior being; while the Bible is brought forward to prove the right of her present position and while she remains satisfied with it is disposed to feel satisfied with it, all these efforts can do but little. We cannot expect to do much by meeting in conventions for those bourne down by the oppressor, unless the oppressed themselves feel and act; upon it. and while so little attention is paid to education; and so little respect to woman. She spoke of the difference paid in education of boys and girls in England. The common schools for boys show an improvement, [illegible] mathematics and other branches many of the higher branches being taught; while the girls learn little more than to read write and keep their little accounts.- sewing being the principal object of attention. The teachers say it will not do to educate them "you unfit them for servants." We grant that woman's intellect is feeble because she has been so long crushed. Does one man have less ^fewer^ rights than another because his intellect ^is inferior?^ if not, why should woman be denied her rights on this account for that reason? Let her arise and demand her rights ^them^ and in a few years we shall see a different mental developement. She regarded this as the beginning of the day when woman shall rise, when she shall occupy her appropriate position in society._