ves who are
not as far apart as the poles, are apt to think alike on all
questions except religion and temperance, perhaps I ought to add
finance. Social problems they solve by the same rule, public
officers they weigh in the same balance, party measures criticise
and pronounce wise or unwise with the same verdict. I know of a
few advocates of woman suffrage whose husbands, fathers,
brothers, or some one dearer, do not directly or indirectly aid
them. So far from alienating the married pair, so far from
creating domestic disturbance, the discussion of this question
has called into activity faculties men never dreamed woman
possessed. She has shown more fixedness of purpose, sagacity, and
sound judgment, than have ever been attributed to her. Excepting
the religion of Christ, which first broke the chains binding
woman to a mere animal existence, and sent gleams of love and
hope through the darkness in which she groped, there has been
nothing which has given such an impetus to her life as the
present one, set in motion by her demand for freedom. Never
before in the history of the human race, have women stood so high
in the estimation of men as they stand to-day.

There is but one answer to give to woman-worshipers, and that is,
Take away all responsibility from me, shield me from the terrors
of war, intemperance and licentiousness, and be my vicarious
sacrifice in the world to come, and I'll be the thing you would
have me--the echo--the reflection--the soulless divinity.

Is this an extreme view? What! can there be an extreme view, when
one is considering individual freedom? Set bounds to the
political, social, or religious liberty of a man, and what
figures of speech would he employ? The advocates of the XV.
Amendment put words into our mouths, and they must answer for
them if they seem too extravagant. There is nothing under the sun
that will so arouse man or woman as the fact that another, as
needy, as finite as himself, sets stakes in the path of his
progress, and says, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther." It
is this assumption of men, most grievous to be borne, that has
compelled woman to ask that the stakes be removed, and she be
permitted to go where she wills to go.

Mrs. HANNAH B. CLARKE spoke as follows: When I am satisfie