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NEW YORK. 



in Rochester, the following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



1. Resolved, That a government of the people, by 

 the people, and tor the people, is yet to be realized; 

 for that which is formed, administered, and con- 

 trolled only by men is practically nothing more than 

 an enlarged oligarchy, whose assumptions of natural 

 superiority and of the right to rule are as baseless as 

 those enforced by the aristocratic and dynastic pow- 

 ers of the Old World. 



2. Resolved, That this claim of equal rights in de- 

 termining who shall be the law-makers, and what 

 shall be the laws, is not to be set aside by^witless 

 ridicule, artful evasion, masculine self-conceit, dog- 

 ged resistance, or by citing long-established usage 

 against it ; but it is to be asserted and demanded 

 with increasing emphasis, though a thousand times 

 rejected, until its concession is fully assured. 



3. Resolved, That in celebrating our third decade we 

 have reason to congratulate ourselves on the marked 

 change in woman's position within the last thirty 

 years in her enlarged opportunities for education 

 and labor, her greater freedom under improved social 

 customs and civil laws, and the promise of her speedy 

 enfranchisement in the minor political rights she has 

 already secured. 



4. Resolved, That the International Congress called 

 in Paris for the 20th of July to discuss the rights of 

 woman the eminent Victor Hugo its presiding offi- 

 cer is one of the most encouraging events of the 

 century, in that statesmen and scholars from all parts 

 of the world, amid the excitements of the French 

 Exposition, propose to give five days to deliberations 

 upon this question. 



5. Resolved, That the majority report of the chair- 

 man of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, 

 Senator Wadleigh of New Hampshire ? against a six- 

 teenth amendment to secure the political rights of 

 woman, in its weakness shows the strength of our 

 reform. It is not a statesman-like argument based 

 upon reason and conviction, but the evasion of a 

 demaerogue. 



6. Resolved, That the national effort to force citizen- 

 ship on the Indians, the decision of Judge Choate, 

 in the United States Circuit Court of California, 

 against the naturalization of the Chinese, and the de- 

 nial of Congress to secure the suffrage to women, are 

 contradictory class legislation, dangerous to the sta- 

 bility of our institutions. 



7. Whereas, Women's rights and duties in all mat- 

 ters of legislation are the same as those of man 



Resolved, That the problems of labor, finance, suf- 

 frage, international rights, internal improvements, 

 theology, and other great questions, can never be sat- 

 isfactorily adjusted without the enlightened thought 

 of woman, and her voice in the councils of the na- 

 tion. 



t 8. Resolved, That the question of capital and labor 



is one of special interest to us. Man, standing to 



woman in the position of capitalist, has robbed her 



rough the ages of the results of her toil. No just 



ttlement of this question can be attained until the 



right of woman to the proceeds of her labor in the 



family and elsewhere be recognized, and until she is 



welcomed into every industry on the basis of equal 



pay for equal work. 



. Resolved, That as the duty of every individual 



self-development, the lessons of self-sacrifice and 



iience taught woman by the Christian Church 



een fatal not only to her own highest interests, 



buUhrou K 'h her have also dwarfed and degraded the 



10. ft*olred. That the fundamental principle of the 

 estant Reformation, the right of individual con- 



iience and judgment in the interpretation of Scrip- 

 ture, heretofore conceded to and exercised by man 

 hoTmn \ U .\ d , n ^ be clain ?e d bv Woman and &<* in 



th?ri i ^ I ?!, 8 k h V hould no 

 authority, but be guided by her own reason. 



11. Resolved, That it is through the perversion of 

 the religious element in woman, cultivating the emo- 

 tions at the expense of her reason, playing upon her 

 hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all 

 its high duties for ever in abeyance to that which is 

 to come, that she, and the children she has trained, 

 have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and 

 superstition. 



The Prohibition State Convention assem- 

 bled at Albany on April 24th, and nominated 

 Joshua M. Van Cott for Judge of the Court 

 of Appeals. The following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Whereas, The importation, manufacture, and sale 

 of intoxicating liquors for drinking purposes are in- 

 jurious to the individual and to society, and destruc- 

 tive of the objects which governments are instituted 

 to promote demoralizing the citizen, and causing 

 the insecurity of his person and property ; and 



Whereas, The existing excise law which protects 

 and legalizes such traffic is immoral in principle and 

 mischievous in practice : therefore, 



Resolved, That such importation, manufacture, and 

 sale should be prohibited by law, and be recognized 

 by the State as a crime to be punished by the im- 

 prisonment of the offender. 



Resolved, That the State should levy no excise 

 upon a traffic so demoralizing and criminal, and wo 

 therefore demand the repeal of the present excise 

 law, and protest against the enactment of the pro- 

 posed Moffett bell-punch register act. 



Resolved, That we favor the enfranchisement of 

 woman, as a means by which she can, through legis- 

 lative expression, protect herself and her interests 

 from the fatal consequences of the drink traffic. 



Resolved, That we rejoice at and will heartily co- 

 operate in all efforts to reform the intemperate by 

 moral and Christian agencies, but we believe per- 

 manent success can not be attained except by legal 

 measures ; and so believing, we deprecate and de- 

 nounce any and all efforts tending to antagonize the 

 two principles, viz., moral suasion and legal prohi- 

 bition. 



Resolved, That we are opposed to the existing 

 national banking system, by which the banking in- 

 terest obtains special commercial advantages at the 

 expense of the labor industries of the country. 



Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress to ascer- 

 tain and create the proximate amount of currency 

 per capita necessary to start into healthful activity 

 the paralyzed and suffering industries of the country. 



The " National Greenback Labor Reform " 

 party assembled in Convention at Syracuse 

 on July 25th, and nominated Gideon J. Tucker 

 for Judge of the Court of Appeals. The fol- 

 lowing resolutions were adopted : 



Whereas, The so-called Democratic and Republi- 

 can parties have legislated in the interest of the 

 money power of this country and Europe, and 

 against the interests of land and labor, which are 

 the sources of all wealth : therefore we assert our 

 complete independence of said parties, and declare 

 our entire confidence in and adhesion to the National 

 Labor-Greenback party, which name is hereby 

 adopted by us ; and that the following are the prin- 

 ciples enunciated to guide us in the government of 

 the State and nation, should Providence permit us 

 to attain to the same : 



1. The greenback dollar must be a full legal ten- 

 der for the payment of all debts, public and private, 

 and by the Government issued, protected, and re- 

 ceived as absolute money. 



2. We declare that all acts of Congress changing 

 the original bond contract, to wit, of 1869, 1870, and 

 1873, and the resumption act of 1875, were enacted 

 without consent, privity, or procurement, and were 



