ll privileges conceded to her. Now, mind, I say
_conceded_; for publicly it has not yet been recognized by the
laws of the land that she has a right to an equality with man. In
that resolution it simply states a fact, that in a republic based
upon freedom, woman, as well as the negro, should be recognized
as an equal with the whole human race. (Applause)

ANGELINE G. WELD: _Mrs. President_--I rejoice exceedingly that
that resolution should combine us with the negro. I feel that we
have been with him; that the iron has entered into our souls.
True, we have not felt the slave-holder's lash; true, we have not
had our hands manacled, but our _hearts_ have been crushed. Was
there a single institution in this country that would throw open
its doors to the acknowledgment of woman's equality with man in
the race for science and the languages, until Oberlin, Antioch,
Lima, and a very few others opened their doors, twenty years ago?
Have I not heard women say--I said thus to my own brother, as I
used to receive from him instruction and reading: "Oh, brother,
that I could go to college with you! that I could have the
instruction you do! but I am crushed! I hear nothing, I know
nothing, except in the fashionable circle." A teacher said to a
young lady, who had been studying for several years, on the day
she finished her course of instruction, "I thought you would be
very glad that you were so soon to go home, so soon to leave your
studies." She looked up, and said, "What was I made for? When I
go home I shall live in a circle of fashion and folly. I was not
made for embroidery and dancing; I was made a woman; but I can
not be a true woman, a full-grown woman, in America."

Now, my friends, I do not want to find fault with the past. I
believe that men did for women the best that they knew how to do.
They did not know their own rights; they did not recognize the
rights of any man who had a black face. We can not wonder that,
in their tenderness for woman, they wanted to shelter and protect
her, and they made those laws from true, human, generous
feelings. Woman was then too undeveloped to demand anything else.
But woman is full-grown to-day, whether man knows it or not,
equal to her rights, and equal to the responsibilities of the
hour. I want to be identi