n. Is not the
wife as much interested in the preservation of property as her
husband? Another reason is, that the purity of politics depends
upon the admission of woman to the franchise, for without her
influence morality in politics can not be secured. (Applause.)

HENRY B. BLACKWELL presented the following resolution:

_Resolved_, That in seeking to remove the legal disabilities
which now oppress woman as wife and mother, the friends of
woman suffrage are not seeking to undermine or destroy the
sanctity of the marriage relation, but to ennoble marriage,
making the obligations and responsibilities of the contract
mutual and equal for husband and wife.

MARY A. LIVERMORE said that that was introduced by her
permission, but the original resolution was stronger, and she
having slept over it, thought that it should be introduced
instead of that one, and offered the following:

_Resolved_, That while we recognize the disabilities which
the legal marriage imposes upon woman as wife and mother,
and while we pledge ourselves to seek their removal by
putting her on equal terms with man, we abhorrently
repudiate Free Loveism as horrible and mischievous to
society, and disown any sympathy with it.

Mrs. LIVERMORE said that the West wanted some such resolution as
that in consequence of the innuendoes that had come to their ears
with regard to their striving after the ballot.

Mrs. HANAFORD spoke against such inferences not only for the
ministers of her own denomination, but the Christian men and
women of New England everywhere. She had heard people say that
when women indorsed woman suffrage they indorsed Free Loveism,
and God knows they despise it. Let me carry back to my New
England home the word that you as well as your honored President,
whom we love, whose labor we appreciate, and whose name has also
been dragged into this inference, scout all such suggestions as
contrary to the law of God and humanity.

LUCY STONE: I feel it is a mortal shame to give any foundation
for the implication that we favor Free Loveism. I am ashamed that
the question should be asked here. There should be nothing said
about it at all. Do not let us, for the sake of our own
self-respect, allow it t