<P> After a pause for refreshment in the 90 ° heat, an afternoon session began with Stanton and then Mott addressing the audience . The Declaration of Sentiments was read again and more changes were made to it . The resolutions, now numbering eleven with Stanton's addition of women's suffrage, were read aloud and discussed . Lucretia Mott read a humorous newspaper piece written by her sister Martha Wright in which Wright questioned why, after an overworked mother completed the myriad daily tasks that were required of her but not of her husband, she was the one upon whom written advice was "so lavishly bestowed ." Twenty - seven - year - old Elizabeth W. M'Clintock then delivered a speech, and the first day's business was called to a close . </P> <P> In the evening, the meeting was opened to all persons, and Lucretia Mott addressed a large audience . She spoke of the progress of other reform movements and so framed for her listeners the social and moral context for the struggle for women's rights . She asked the men present to help women gain the equality they deserved . The editor of the National Reformer, a paper in Auburn, New York, reported that Mott's extemporaneous evening speech was "one of the most eloquent, logical, and philosophical discourses which we ever listened to ." </P> <P> A larger crowd attended on the second day, including more men . Amelia Bloomer arrived late and took a seat in the upstairs gallery, there being none left in the main seating area . Quaker James Mott was well enough to attend, and he chaired the morning meeting; it was still too radical a concept that a woman serve as chair in front of both men and women . </P> <P> After Mott opened the meeting, the minutes of the previous day were read, and Stanton presented the Declaration of Sentiments . In regard to the grievance "He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns," Assemblyman Ansel Bascom stood to say that he had recently been at the New York State Assembly which passed the Married Woman's Property Act . Bascom spoke at length about the property rights it secured for married women, including property acquired after marriage . Further discussion of the Declaration ensued, including comments by Frederick Douglass, Thomas and Mary Ann M'Clintock, and Amy Post; the document was adopted unanimously . The question of men's signatures was solved by having two sections of signatures, one for women followed by one for men . One hundred of the 300 present signed the Declaration of Sentiments, including 68 women and 32 men . Amelia Bloomer was one of the participants who did not endorse the Declaration; she was focused at that time on the temperance movement . Ansel Bascom was the most conspicuous attendee who chose not to sign the Declaration . The National Reformer reported that those in the audience who evidently regarded the Declaration as "too bold and ultra", including the lawyers known to be opposed to the equal rights of women, "failed to call out any opposition, except in a neighboring BAR - ROOM ." </P>

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