Tabloid-format newspaper, Vol. VII, No. 48, issue 360; consisting of eight pages, complete issue; containing a short piece on the first woman's rights convention; old folds, some toning, 20 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.
"The members of the Convention 'anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation and ridicule' as they 'enter upon the great work' before them. [They] intend, however, to employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and National Legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the Pulpit and the Press."
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. [...] He as endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life."
