subsistence, she does not do it
because the law demands it, but because there is no other way
open to her to obtain a livelihood. She did not ask for the
ballot because the laws of the State are barbarous. She did not
believe that men can make laws that will answer to the needs of
women. Only when men and women together make laws can they be
just and equal, and for that reason there should be both men and
women in the Legislature.

Mrs. BLACKWELL read some additional resolutions[196] to those
that had been adopted at an earlier stage of the Convention.

At the first evening session Mrs. Lucy Stone presiding, Mrs.
JULIA WARD HOWE, of Boston, was the first speaker. In opening she
spoke of the silent weary work, of the results of which the
afternoon's reports told, and showed that the equal suffragists'
labor is not comprised in facing pleasant audiences and listening
to the applause which so many say is the one thing for which the
women in this movement work. Her entire speech was in a tone that
could not fail to convince all, that she, at least, works for
something higher.

Mrs. STONE said that in every time of need, wherever the womanly
workers for woman go, they find men to whom their gratitude flows
as the rivers flow to the sea--they are the men who stand up to
speak in woman's name in behalf of woman's rights. As one of
these men she introduced Gen. Voris, of Ohio, the champion of
equal suffrage in the Ohio Constitutional Convention. The speech
of Gen. Voris was a close, logical argument. It reviewed the
entire question of suffrage, and bristled with points. He was so
frequently interrupted by applause that he was obliged to ask the
audience to withhold their tokens of approbation till he got
through, but it was to little purpose, for enthusiastic
suffragists couldn't help letting their hands tell their ears how
good the General's hard hits at the anti-suffragists made them
feel, and the applause would still break out once in a while.

Mrs. MARY A. LIVERMORE was next introduced. She was greeted with
applause, and commenced by an allusion to the Scandinavian origin
of our race, and their characteristic bravery, vigor, and love of
freedom. The Scandinavians were distinguished from other races by
their regard for their wives. With t