ill against
a withering fire. Victory seemed impossible, and the
General--even he a rock of valor and patriotism--exclaimed, "They
can't do it; they'll never reach the top!" His chief-of-staff,
watching the struggle with equal earnestness, placed his hand on
his commander's arm and said softly, "Time, time, General; give
them time;" and presently the moist eyes of the brave leader saw
his soldiers victorious upon the summit. They were American
soldiers. So are we. They were fighting our American battle. So
are we. They were climbing a precipice. So are we. The great
heart of their General gave them time and they conquered. The
great heart of our country will give us time and we shall
triumph.

Mrs. LUCY STONE then introduced Hon. George W. Julian, member of
Congress from Indiana. "His name," she said, "will always be held
in grateful remembrance by good women as the author of the XVI.
Amendment."

Mr. JULIAN said that, as a thorough-going radical in politics and
a sincere believer in democracy as a principle, he could not see
how he was to argue the question of woman suffrage, even if he
had the time. Woman's rights, to his mind, rested upon precisely
the same grounds upon which men's rights rest; and to argue the
question of woman's rights is to argue the question of human
rights. Subscribing as he did to the great primal truth of the
sacredness of human rights, the same logic which held him to that
compelled him--it is inexorable logic--to stand by the legitimate
results to which it leads. The issue was between aristocracy and
privilege on one side, and democracy and equality of inherent
right on the other. Speaking of the XVI. Amendment, he said:
"Believing as I do in democracy in the large and proper and full
sense of the term, and being unwilling to write myself down a
hypocrite or liar by refusing to women equal participation in
rights which I insist upon for myself as a citizen of the United
States, I thought it was my duty to introduce into the Congress
of the United States a XVI. Amendment to the Constitution
proposing to give to one half of our citizens who are to-day
disfranchised a voice in the system of laws and government by
which the other half of the citizens now govern them. Should it
succeed, you will have a true