he sick, should be and would be
ready in their turn to go also, if need be, even to the
battle-field rather than suffer the overthrow of a righteous
government. But woman's relations to war are intrinsically unlike
man's. Her natural attitude toward law and order and toward all
public interests must always differ from his. Women would never
be the producers of wealth to the same extent with men. The time
devoted by the one class to earning money would be given by the
other to rearing children. Yes, this question touches too many
vital interests ever to be settled till it is settled right. We
mean to live, to keep well and strong, and to continue to trouble
the whole country until it is settled and settled to stay. There
can be no rest from agitation till this is done.

LUCY STONE spoke particularly of the need of using the
opportunity the Centennial gives, to show that, if it was wrong
for George III. to govern the colonies a hundred years ago
without their consent, it is just as wrong now to govern women
without their consent; that if taxation without representation
was tyranny then it is tyranny now, and no less tyranny because
it is done to women than if it were done to men; that the
usurpation of the rights of women is as high-handed a crime as
was the usurpation of the rights of the colonists by the British
Parliament, and will be so regarded a hundred years hence. She
claimed that this occasion ought to be used to show men that the
deeds of their ancestors, of which they are so proud, are worthy
of their own imitation; she urged women to refrain from joining
in the Centennial, and to show no more respect for the power
which governs them without their consent, than did their brave
ancestors a century ago.

The PRESIDENT said--I understand there is among the audience the
famous Democrat of England, CHARLES BRADLAUGH, and I will call
upon him to say a few words.

Mr. BRADLAUGH at once came forward from the rear of the hall,
where he had been sitting, and mounting the platform, said: I
only came forward in obedience to a call which it would be
impertinence to refuse here to-night. I came to be a listener and
with no sort of intention of making any speech at all, and the
only right I should have upon this platform is, that for the las