and of
equity between man and man. All these need the consideration
which is made possible by the accumulated wisdom of centuries and
the insight which eighteen hundred years' study of Christian
principles have developed. But I shall never get over a sense of
anachronism, of being out of time, in arguing at this late day a
claim for so fundamental a thing as human freedom. I rub my eyes
to make sure that I have not been in a Rip Van Winkle slumber for
a few centuries, and am not coming before a nineteenth century
audience with an untimely protest against a wrong long since
abolished, and of which children only hear nowadays in their
study of history, or when their parents draw a picture of the sad
old times when an injustice prevailed against one half the
people, and these the mothers, wives, and daughters. But no! we
have none of us been permitted to betake ourselves to a mount of
delight and to rest in enchanted slumber while the great wrongs
righted themselves. We are here on the hither side of the
conflict and must put our puny human strength into the work.
Though this is the nineteenth century after Christ, we are
here--in the most civilized, or perhaps I should better say, the
least uncivilized country on the face of the globe--to urge the
right of one half the human race to the same personal freedom and
voice in the control of its own and the general interests as are
possessed by the other half.

Mrs. FRANCES WATKINS HARPER was the last speaker. She said that
she had often known women who wished they had been born men, but
had known only one man who wished he had been born a woman, and
that was during the war when he was in danger of being drafted
into the army. He then not only expressed the wish that he had
been born a girl, but even went further, and longed to be a
girl-baby at that. Mrs. Harper gave a touching description of the
disabilities to which women, and especially colored women, are
subjected, and looked forward to their enfranchisement as the
dawn of a better era alike for men and for women. At the
conclusion of Mrs. Harper's address the Convention adjourned
_sine die_.

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The anniversary of the recognition of the equal political rights
of women by the Constitutional Con