Editing Seneca Falls Convention (section)

=== Evening session, day two ===

Quaker Thomas M'Clintock served as chair for the evening session, opening it at half-past seven.<ref name="nps report"/> The minutes were read, then Stanton spoke in defense of the many severe accusations brought against the much-abused "Lords of Creation."<ref name="nps report"/> Following Stanton, Thomas M'Clintock read several passages from Sir [[William Blackstone]]'s laws, to expose for the audience the basis of woman's current legal condition of servitude to man.<ref>National Park Service. Women's Rights. [http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/thomas-mclintock.htm ''Thomas M'Clintock'']. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.</ref> Lucretia Mott stood to offer another resolution: "Resolved, That the speedy success of our cause depends upon the zealous and untiring efforts of both men and women, for the overthrow of the monopoly of the pulpit, and for the securing to woman an equal participation with men in the various trades, professions and commerce."<ref name=Stanton83>Stanton, 1997, p. 83.</ref> This, the twelfth resolution, passed.{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}}

Mary Ann M'Clintock Jr. spoke briefly, calling upon woman to arouse from her lethargy and be true to herself and her God. Douglass again rose to speak in support of the cause of woman.<ref name=Stanton83/> Lucretia Mott spoke for an hour with one of her "most beautiful and spiritual appeals".<ref name=Stanton83/> Although Lucretia Mott's reputation as a speaker drew the audience, Mott recognized Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann M'Clintock as the "chief planners and architects" of the convention.<ref name="nps quakers"/> To close the meeting, a committee was appointed to edit and publish the convention proceedings, with Amy Post, [[Eunice Newton Foote]], Mary Ann M'Clintock Jr., Elizabeth W. M'Clintock and Stanton serving.<ref name="nps quakers"/>