When women are the constituents of men who make and administer the laws they will pay due consideration to woman's interests, and not before.

The right of suffrage is the great right that guarantees all others." Here also was the first public appearance of Matilda Joslyn Gage, the youngest woman taking part in the convention, who read an excellent paper urging that daughters should be educated with sons, taught self-reliance and permitted some independent means of self-support.

A fine address also was made by Paulina Wright Davis, who had managed and presided over the two conventions held in 1850 and 1851 at Worcester, Mass.[14] The queen of the platform at this time was Ernestine L.Rose, a Jewess who had fled from Poland to escape religious persecution.

She was beautiful and cultured, of liberal views and great oratorical powers.
Her lectures on "The Science of Government" had attracted wide attention.

Naturally, she took a prominent part in the early woman's rights meetings.