er hands for good?
I know that a great many women have not been educated up to a
condition that would teach them fully how to act. Like the slave,
they have had too much thinking and acting done for them, until
now they feel incompetent to discharge these duties for
themselves. Our great duty, then, which we who know better should
consider imposed upon us, is that of educating women up to the
proper standard. Shall we be beggars for that which is, of right,
ours? Shall there not be one law for the brothers and the
daughters throughout this entire country? As Mr. Beecher has well
said, women have borne their full share of martyrdom; and it
strikes me that it is now about time for her redemption from the
evils of her position. If she has to suffer from the evils of a
defective or vicious system of laws, put in her hands the power
to protect herself, to mitigate the sufferings of her sex, to
preserve and defend the right and to suppress the wrong.

Mrs. MIRIAM M. COLE spoke at some length. The spirit of '76, she
said, influenced Mrs. John Adams to write to her husband to
inquire if it were generous in American men to keep their wives
in thraldom, when they were emancipating the whole earth. Had the
spirit of that letter animated the wife of Mr. Lincoln when his
emancipation proclamation was issued, how pertinently could she
have made the same inquiry! The laws regarding women were written
down so plain that those may run who read, and they who read had
better run.

Mrs. CELIA BURLEIGH said: Several references have been made to
the work of women in the church. I am glad to be able to
introduce to you now the pastor of one of the most popular
churches of New Haven, and whose church, I am happy to say, is
crowded every Sunday--Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford.

Mrs. HANAFORD said: Speaking with Horace Greeley a few weeks ago,
he replied to my query why he was not in favor of woman suffrage,
by saying that he did not think women would gain the opportunity
of suffrage or improve the opportunity if they had it, until they
should come to consider suffrage a duty, and he declared that he
had never known any one to advocate woman suffrage on the ground
of duty.

I was amazed at his assertion in the face of all the speeches and
lectures which such wom