But we now think the woman's rights meeting had better not be attempted, and she has written Elizabeth C.Stanton to this effect.
"I was well satisfied with being at the Albany meeting.

I have since met with the following, from a speech of Lord Brougham's, which pleased me, as being as radical as mine in your stately Hall of Representatives: "'Before women can have any justice by the laws of England, there must be a total reconstruction of the whole marriage system; for any attempt to amend it would prove useless.

The great charter, in establishing the supremacy of law over prerogative, provides only for justice between man and man; for woman nothing is left but common law, accumulations and modifications of original Gothic and Roman heathenism, which no amount of filtration through ecclesiastical courts could change into Christian laws.

They are declared unworthy a Christian people by great jurists; still they remain unchanged.' "So Elizabeth Stanton will see that I have authority for going to the root of the evil.
"Thine, "LUCRETIA MOTT." Those of us who met in Albany talked the matter over in regard to a free discussion of the divorce question at the coming convention in New York.
It was the opinion of those present that, as the laws on marriage and divorce were very unequal for man and woman, this was a legitimate subject for discussion on our platform; accordingly I presented a series of resolutions, at the annual convention, in New York city, to which I spoke for over an hour.

I was followed by Antoinette L, Brown, who also presented a series of resolutions in opposition to mine.