By it man gains all; woman loses all; tyrant law and lust reign supreme with him; meek submission and ready obedience alone befit her.

Woman has never been consulted; her wish has never been taken into consideration as regards the terms of the marriage compact.

By law, public sentiment, and religion,--from the time of Moses down to the present day,--woman has never been thought of other than as a piece of property, to be disposed of at the will and pleasure of man.

And at this very hour, by our statute books, by our (so-called) enlightened Christian civilization, she has no voice whatever in saying what shall be the basis of the relation.

She must accept marriage as man proffers it, or not at all.
"And then, again, on Mr.Phillips' own ground, the discussion is perfectly in order, since nearly all the wrongs of which we complain grow out of the inequality of the marriage laws, that rob the wife of the right to herself and her children; that make her the slave of the man she marries.