ad dropped his hat and apostrophized it
thus: "If I try to pick you up, I shall myself fall down. If I
fall down, you can not pick me up. Therefore I will go on without
you." But woman's enfranchisement will open every college door
and every avenue of employment. Every woman will be cared for, as
every man is now cared for. A government without justice is
tyranny, piracy, and despotism. A society without justice would
be a hell. The lower elements of appetite and passion exist in
society. They must be overcome by the higher elements of justice.
With justice will come heavenliness, purity, and peace. Thus, in
opening the proceedings of this afternoon, we represent in 1876
the principles of 1776--the principles which will triumph more
clearly and gloriously in 1976.

Mrs. HOWE said: Heaven gives each of us two human hands. One is
meant to receive the gifts of Providence, and one is meant to
give largely of what we receive to others. Ignorant, selfish
human beings too often hold out but the one hand. They receive,
and are satisfied with that; but they do not give. They seem to
say to divine Providence, "What is yours is mine, and what is
mine is my own." Nevertheless, in the order of this same
Providence, what we give is as important to our happiness as what
we receive. The rich man who has done nothing to enrich the
community in which he lives, has really profited very little by
the wealth he has amassed and inherited. Himself commanding the
means of refinement and luxury, he lives surrounded by poverty,
barbarism, and crime; and these, from the beginning of his career
to the end, poison the very sources of his life. As much worse is
it with those who receive liberty and do not give it, as liberty
is better than money. "Give me liberty or give me death!" says
Patrick Henry. He receives it. Does he give it to his slave? No.
To his wife? Still less. What does he have of it, then? Only one
half--the selfish half of possession, not the joyous and generous
side of sympathy and participation.

These Jerseyites, it seems, were wiser than any in their day and
generation. They saw the anomaly, the contradiction between a
free manhood and an enslaved womanhood. They saw it taking effect
at the sacred hearth, beside the tender cradle. And they saw
t