It gives him a right to her personal property, which he may will entirely away from her, also the use of her real estate, and in some of the States married women, insane persons and idiots are ranked together as not fit to make a will; so that she is left with only one right, which she enjoys in common with the pauper, the right of maintenance.

Indeed, when she has taken the sacred marriage vows, her legal existence ceases.

And what is our position politically?
The foreigner, the negro, the drunkard, all are entrusted with the ballot, all placed by men politically higher than their own mothers, wives, sisters and daughters! The woman who, seeing this, dares not maintain her rights is the one to hang her head and blush.

We ask only for justice and equal rights--the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law; these are the Gibraltar of our cause.
Rev.Antoinette Brown, the first woman ever ordained to preach, declared: Man can not represent woman.

They differ in their nature and relations.