baby.
There's no sense, therefore, in the fear that the paltry lures of
politicians will draw women from the home circle. There is no
necessity to enact laws to keep women women. Woman's sphere is
that which she can fill, whether it be sea-captain, merchant,
school-teacher, or wife and mother.

Only two millions of women are among the producers of the
country--five millions are wives and mothers, and eight millions
are rusting out in idleness and frivolity. Take eight millions of
men from the world of commerce and productive work; the deficit
will be immediately felt. Add to the producers of the world eight
millions of skilled women, and the quickening would be felt
everywhere. Mrs. Livermore also urged the admission of women to
political life from considerations drawn from the increase of the
foreign element. East and West is a huge, ignorant,
semi-barbarous mass, brought hither from European and Asiatic
shores, needing the enlightenment and the quickening that would
come from the addition of educated women to the polls.

The Thursday morning session was called to order by the
PRESIDENT, Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Mr. Henry B. Blackwell, the
Secretary, read, on behalf of the Business Committee, the
resolutions.[187]

Mr. BLACKWELL moved their acceptance, and, in support of his
motion, said: _Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen_: We have so
often heard of the great step that was taken in the war of the
Revolution--when our connection with Great Britain was
severed--that I fear we have lost sight of the fact that there
have been two great revolutions since that day--revolutions
which, to my mind, are immeasurably more important than the
first. For, when the war of the Revolution ended, a republic in
the present sense of the term did not exist in these United
States. In almost every State there was a property qualification
for voting. It was a government like the government of Great
Britain to-day--like the government of other countries--it was an
aristocracy of wealth, the privilege of voting being based upon a
property qualification. But hardly had the guns of the Revolution
ceased action, before the Democratic party of that day, under the
lead of Mr. Jefferson, demanded suffrage for poor men as a
natural right. The Federal party o