o be hinted that we helped forge a shadow
of a chain which comes in the name of Free Love. I am unwilling
that it should be suggested that this great, sacred cause of ours
means anything but what we have said it does. If any one says to
me, "Oh, I know what you mean, you mean Free Love by this
agitation," let the lie stick in his throat. You may talk about
Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote.
To-day we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial
by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk
about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may
taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it
as long as you please.

ERNESTINE L. ROSE: We are informed by the people from the West
that they are wiser than we are, and that those in the East are
also wiser than we are. If they are wiser than we, I think it
strange that this question of Free Love should have been brought
upon this platform at all. I object to Mrs. Livermore's
resolution, not on account of its principles, but on account of
its pleading guilty. When a man comes to me and tries to convince
me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers. If we
pass this resolution that we are not Free Lovers, people will say
it is true that you are, for you try to hide it. Lucretia Mott's
name has been mentioned as a friend of Free Love, but I hurl back
the lie into the faces of all the ministers in the East and into
the faces of the newspapers of the West, and defy them to point
to one shadow of a reason why they should connect her name with
that vice. We have been thirty years in this city before the
public, and it is an insult to all the women who have labored in
this cause; it is an insult to the thousands and tens of
thousands of men and women that have listened to us in our
Conventions, to say at this late hour that we are not Free
Lovers.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY repudiated the resolution on the same ground as
Mrs. Rose, and said this howl came from those men who knew that
when women got their rights they would be able to live honestly:
no longer be compelled to sell themselves for bread, either in or
out of marriage.

Mrs. Dr. L. S. BATCHELDER, a delegate appointed by the Boston
Working Women's Assoc