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WOMEN'S
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WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS, SALEM, OHIO, APRIL 1850. 6th. RESOLVED, That in those laws which confer on man the power to control the property and person of woman, and to remove from her at will the children of her affection, we recognize only the modified code of the slave plantation; and that thus we are brought more nearly in sympathy with the suffering slave, who is dependent of all his rights. 16th. RESOLVED, That we regard those women who content themselves with an idle, aimless life, as involved in the guilt as well as the suffering of their own oppression; and that we hold those who go forth into the world, in the face of the frowns and the sneers of the public, to fill larger spheres of labor, as the truest preachers of the cause of Woman's Rights. l9th. RESOLVED, That, as woman is not permitted to hold office, nor have any voice in the Government, she should not be compelled to pay taxes out of her scanty wages to support men who get eight dollars a day for taking the right to themselves to enact laws for her. 20th. RESOLVED, That we, the women of Ohio, will hereafter meet annually to Convention, to consult upon and adopt measures for the removal of the various disabilities -- political, social, religious, legal, and pecuniary -- to which woman, as a class, are subjected, and from which results so much misery, degradation, and crime.
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