Editing Seneca Falls Convention (section)

=== News reports ===

Local newspapers printed reports of the convention, some positive, others not. The ''National Reformer'' reported that the convention "forms an era in the progress of the age; it being the first convention of the kind ever held, and one whose influence shall not cease until woman is guaranteed all the rights now enjoyed by the other half of creation—Social, Civil and <small>POLITICAL</small>."<ref name=NatReformer/> The ''Oneida Whig'' did not approve of the convention, writing of the Declaration: "This bolt is the most shocking and unnatural incident ever recorded in the history of womanity. If our ladies will insist on voting and legislating, where, gentleman, will be our dinners and our elbows? Where our domestic firesides and the holes in our stockings?"<ref>''Oneida Whig'', Tuesday Morning, August 1 (1848). [https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc006199.jpg ''Bolting Among The Ladies.''] Retrieved on April 27, 2009.</ref>

Soon, newspapers across the country picked up the story. Reactions varied widely. In Massachusetts, the ''Lowell Courier'' published its opinion that, with women's equality, "the lords must wash the dishes, scour up, be put to the tub, handle the broom, darn stockings."<ref name=historynow/> In St. Louis, Missouri, the ''Daily Reveille'' trumpeted that "the flag of independence has been hoisted for the second time on this side of the Atlantic."<ref name=historynow/> [[Horace Greeley]] in the ''New York Tribune'' wrote "When a sincere republican is asked to say in sober earnest what adequate reason he can give, for refusing the demand of women to an equal participation with men in political rights, he must answer, None at all. However unwise and mistaken the demand, it is but the assertion of a natural right, and such must be conceded."<ref name=historynow/>