did not approach the
polls like the Neapolitan heroine who votes for Victor Emanuel,
with pistols and daggers in their belts and war medals on their
breasts. They were made way for as respectfully as though they
had been about to enter a church door. Of course, their votes
were thrown out, but it would not always be so. They would hope
on and vote on. Touching the reforms that women intend to bring
about when they shall "come into the kingdom," she said, "we will
rule liquor out of the country;" a declaration which at the
present critical stage of affairs, and in Washington, struck me
as rather impolitic. "As to the question of woman first or the
black man first," she said, "I mean both together"; evidently
looking for a constitutional amendment gateway wide enough for
the two to dash in abreast, neck-and-neck. "Oh, woman, great is
thy faith!" This speaker related some sad stories illustrative of
woman's legal disabilities, and dwelt feelingly on the old,
palpable, intolerable grievance of inequality of wages, and on
the bars and restrictions which woman encounters at every turn,
in her struggle for an honorable livelihood.

In reply, Mrs. Mott, in her bright, sweet, deprecating way, cast
a flood of sunlight on the dark pictures, by referring to the
remodeling of the laws respecting the relation of husband and
wife, in regard to property, and the right of the mother to her
child, by the Legislatures of the various States and especially
by that of the State of New York.

Miss Anthony followed in a strain not only cheerful, but
exultant--reviewing the advance of the cause from its first
despised beginning to its present position, where, she alleged,
it commanded the attention of the world. She spoke in her usual
pungent, vehement style, hitting the nail on the head every time,
and driving it in up to the head. Indeed, it seems to me, that
while Lucretia Mott may be said to be the soul of this movement,
and Mrs. Stanton the mind, the "swift, keen intelligence," Miss
Anthony, alert, aggressive, and indefatigable, is its nervous
energy--its propulsive force.

Mrs. Stanton has the best arts of the politician and the training
of the jurist, added to the fiery, unresting spirit of the
reformer. She has a rare talent for affairs, management, an