The Clerk read as follows: Memorial of the American Equal Association to the Congress of the U.S. The undersigned, officers and rePresentatives of the American aenrestly protes Equal Rights tagains At sasnoycciahtaionng, e respectfully but tution of the U.S., or legishantiothn ebCyonst Congress which shall longer violate the principle of republican government by proscriptive distinctions in of suffrage and citizenship on accountof color or sex. Your memorialists would respectfullyrePresentthat nbeaittthlee rfiethlde, colored man's loyalty, bravery on the and general good conduct, nor woman's heroic devotion to liberty and her country, in peace and war, have yet availed to admit them to equal citizenship, even in this enlightened and republican nation. We believe that humanity is onein all those intellectual, moral, and spiritual attributes out of which grow human.F.;ation is, “so God created man i.nThheisoSwernipimtuarege declare male and female created he them.”. And all divine legislatiro fenct therqouuaglihtoyut the realm of nature recognizes the female are but different twcooncdointidointisons. For male and Neither color nor sex is ever discharged from obe dience to law, natural, or moral, written or unwritton. The commands, thou shalt not steal, nor kill, nor commit adultery, know nothing of sex in their demands; nothing in their penalty. And hence we believe that all human, legislation which is at variance with the divine code is essentially unrighteous and unjust. Woman and the colored man are taxed to support many literary and humane institutions, into which they never corne, except in the paid capacity of menial servants. Woman has been fined, whipped, branded with red hot irons, imprisoned, and hung; but peers when was woman ever tried by a jury of her Though the nation declared from the beginning that “all just governments derive their powersfrom the consent of the governed, ” the consent of woman was never askedto a single statute, however nearly it affectedher, dearest womanly interests or happi naensds, In the despotisms of theOld World, of ancient modern times, woman, profligate, prostitute, weak, cruel, tyrannical or otherwise, from Semiramis and Messalina to Catharine of Russia and Margaret of Anjou, have swayed, unchallenged, imperial scepters; while in this republican and Christian land, in the 19th century woman, intelligent, refined in every ennobling gift and grace, may not evenvote on the appropriation of her own o.the disFasonoanridghdtesswtihniychofmhaenr oiswbnocuhnilddtroenre.spLeitcetraalnlyd shheer cpiovwile privileges she holds only by sufferance. For the that gave can take away, and of that power she is no part. In mostof the States these unjust distinctions apply to woman and to the colored man coYmoeurwhmeenmsuocrhiailnisjtusstfuiclelysbheoulieldvecethasaet the time has Woman, and the colored man are loyal, patriotic, property holding, tax paying, liberty loving citizens, and we cannot believe that sexor complexion told be any ground for civil or political degradaion. In our Government 1/2 the citizens are disfranchised by their sex, and about one 8th o: cnoolovrooicfetihneeirnaskeitnin;gaonrdetxheucsutainlgartgheemlaawjosrtihtyey have taxed to support and compelled to obey with the same fidelity as the more favored class, whose usurped prorogative it is to rule. Against such outrages on the .name of republican freedom your memorialists do and must ever protest. And is not our protest pregminently as just against the tyranny of "taxation without rePresentation when ”our revolutionary fathers from Bunker Hill shook the world?.. And your memorialists especially remember, at this time, that our country isstill reeling under the shock roifghatetoeurrsible. civilWar, the legitimate result and retribution of the vilest slave system ever suffered among men;. And in restoring the foundation estfouflloyuarndnaetaiornneas littlyypyroauyrthmateamllo discrimination on account of sex or race may be removed, and that Qur Government may be republican in fact aswell as form; a Government by the people, and the whole people; for the people, and the whole people;. 1. I0nn, behalf of the American Equal Rights Association LUCRETIA MOTT, THEODoRE Tiffo" FREDERICK DOUGLASS Elizabeth Stanton, VEEPs. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, retary. w Before the Clerk had concluded the reading of the above, Mr. SPALDING moved that the Gentfrom Wisconsin have leave to print the remainder. [Laughter]