Friends of Woman’s Right encouraged

TO THE FRIENDS OF WOMAN’S RIGHTS

   Out movement has been received with unexpected favor. The necessity of some change in the condition of those women dependent for their support, on their own exertions, has been universally acknowledged. 

  Even the more radical claim to equal rights, and to a change in the law of marriage, which shall give the wife equal control with the husband over their joint property, has met with far more encouragement than anyone could have expected.

  The press throughout the country, with hardly an exception, has been respectful and cordial, and from some quarters we have received earnest support.

  Where can we better hold these than in New York, the commercial capital of the country, whose press is listened to by the Nation?  And what time better for assembling such a Convention, than when the streets of that city are crowded with a concourse from every State in the Union?

  We invite, therefore, all well-wishers to the enfranchisement and elevation of women, to assemble in Convention in New York city, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 6th and 7th days of September next, at the Broadway Tabernacle.

 Signed by thirty seven people, including Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, Abby May Alcott, Sarah Grimke, Angelina Weld, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Wendell Phillips, Bronson Alcott, Oliver Johnson, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Rev. Samuel J. May.

                                (Liberator, Aug. 19, 1853, pg 3)