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Tenth Annual Women's Rights Convention, 1860. Woman's Rights Anniversary; Newspaper Report in The New York Times.
New York: May 12, 1860.
Tabloid-format newspaper, consisting of 9 pages, complete issue, containing a report on the 1860 convention held at the Cooper Union in New York City, celebrating a recent law granting mothers joint custody of their children and the right to their own wages and personal property, but petitioning for "marriage reform"; old folds, some toning, 22 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.
"Resolved. That of all insulting mockeries of heavenly truth and holy law, none can be greater than that physical impotency is cause sufficient for divorce, while no amount of mental, or moral, or spiritual imbecility is ever to be pleaded in support of such a demand."
"Resolved. That observation and experience daily show how incompetent are men, as individuals, or as governments, to select partners in business, teachers for their children, ministers of their religion or makers, adjudicators or administrators of their laws, and as the same weakness and blindness must attend to the selection of matrimonial partners, the dictates of humanity and common sense alike show, that the latter and most important contract should no more be perpetual than either or all the former."
