e cast as
a unit within each State for the party which does this great act
of political justice.

GILES B. STEBBINS said: It has been stated that women don't want
the ballot. Well, suppose they don't. That is the very strongest
argument why they should be taught that they do. Fred. Douglass
said, "Show me a contented slave, and I will show you a depraved
man." We want duties and responsibilities shared equally by all,
that man may be more manly and woman more womanly.

Mrs. ELIZABETH K. CHURCHILL, of Providence, said: Can there be an
aristocracy meaner and more tyrannical than that of sex, by which
a wise, cultured, intelligent woman is made the inferior (for
that is what the denial of the ballot implies), the inferior of a
base, brutal, degraded man? The divine right of kings is an
exploded notion; it is time for the divine right of sex to follow
it. The chief value of the ballot is the educational power. He
who feels an interest in men and measures will soon feel a
responsibility. Everybody knows that women are no better than
men. They are no angels floating in an ethereal atmosphere. It is
the fashion sometimes to call them "angels," but I observe they
are no longer angels when they get aged. I don't know a more
unpleasant role to play than that of an aged angel. If it is said
that woman can't know enough to vote, I can only reply that God
made them to match men. But no standard of education was ever
fixed for the ballot; and if there had been one, it never could
exclude woman, any more than it could negroes.

Mrs. LIVERMORE left the chair for a short time to read a note
from a lady inquiring whether, if she thought the woman suffrage
movement was condemned in the New Testament, she would abandon
the movement. I think she said, that it is not the proper way to
put the question. If the question were put to me, If I thought
the woman's reform contrary to Christianity, would I throw it
overboard? I should answer, Yes, unhesitatingly; I should desire,
for one, to stop it; I should renounce it forever. What is it
that the woman's reform asks for woman? We ask for the ballot,
and we ask it simply because it is the symbol of equality. There
is no other recognized symbol of equality in this country. We ask
for the ballot that we may be equa