I have not heard any singing since I came here.

Accordingly, suiting the action to the word, Sojourner sang, "We
are going home." "There, children," said she, "in heaven we shall
rest from all our labors; first do all we have to do here. There
I am determined to go, not to stop short of that beautiful place,
and I do not mean to stop till I get there, and meet you there,
too."

CHARLES C. BURLEIGH said: I consider it among the good omens with
which the Society enters upon its new year of labor, that its
workers have been so busy, as appears from the informal report of
the Secretary this morning, that really they have not had time to
let the left hand know what the right hand was doing. It shows an
earnestness, a determination, a vigor, an industry, which can not
co-exist with a cause of righteousness like the one before us
without hopeful results. There is no narrow question here. We are
not contending for Woman's Suffrage or Negro Suffrage, but for a
broad principle of right applicable to the whole race. Those in
opposition to us have really nothing to stand upon. While we may
fairly assume that the burden of proof lies upon those who urge
objections, that ours is the affirmative case, and all that we
are bound to do is to answer objections; yet in this reform, as
in others which have preceded it, its enemies not being willing
to take the burden of proof, we have undertaken to do their work
as well as our own. We are willing, therefore, for the sake of
meeting every cavil, for the sake of fighting every shadow of
objection, to take the laboring oar which the other side should
take, and to prove the objections unfounded which they have not
yet attempted to prove well-founded.

We are told sometimes that women ought not to share with men in
the rights we claim for humanity, because of the difference of
sex; that there is a sex of soul as well as of body. This is an
objection practically cutting its own throat; because if it is
true that there is a diversity of sex in soul which ought to be
recognized in political institutions as well as in social
arrangements, how can you rightly determine woman's proper place
in society by the standard of a man's intellect? How can man's
intellect determine what kind of legislation suits the condition