and diseases our women. It is want of education, want of
object, want of right knowledge of ends and methods." And
how shall we acquire this unless we are taught? And how
shall we be taught unless provision is made for us? And how
shall provision be made for us unless we make it ourselves
by voting for it?

Some mention is due to the place in which we meet. We are in
the State of Michigan, a State in which the question of
impartial suffrage has been carefully canvassed and
presented during the past year. Within a short distance from
us is the University of Michigan, liberal to men and to
women, whose scholarly claims and merits its Professors and
its President openly and earnestly attest. We claim that
institution as our potent ally. It furnishes the remedy to
all that we complain of. Equal education for the sexes is
the true preparation for equality in civil and social
ordinances. Even at this distance we breathe something of
that pure air in which the woman grows to her full
intellectual stature, untrammeled by artificial limitation
of object and of method. We boast our own Boston, its
culture and its conscience, but while Harvard persistently
closes its doors to women, we blush too for New England, and
sorrowfully wish it better enlightenment and better
behavior.

Having spoken of the East and the West, let me say how
welcome to us of the East are occasions which make us better
acquainted with our fellow-workers and believers of the
West. The late Mr. Seward once said that slavery was
sectional and freedom National. This was true in a larger
sense than that in which he said it. All that is slavish
tends to keep up sectional prejudice and isolation. All that
is liberal tends to sympathy and union. East and West are
the two hands of this mighty country--let the harmony of the
present occasion show that they have but one heart between
them. Are not all our chief possessions held in common? We
gave you Sumner and you gave us Lincoln. We fought together
the war of our late enfranchisement, and when God shall give
us impartial suffrage as an established fac