state of things is possible for them, and they are beginning to
demand their rights. Why should this church be granted for such a
meeting as this, but for the progress of the cause? Why are so
many women present, ready to respond to the most ultra and most
radical sentiments here, but that woman has grown and is able to
assume her rights?

In many of the States the laws have been so modified that the
wife now stands in a very different position as regards the right
of property and other rights, from that which she occupied
fifteen or twenty years ago. You see the same advance in the
literary world. I remember when Maria Edgeworth and her sister
first published their works, that they were afraid to publish
their own name, and borrowed the name of their father. So Frances
Power Cobbe was not able to write over her own name, and she
issued her "Intuitive Morals" without a name; and her father was
so much pleased with the work, without knowing it was his
daughter's, that it led to an acknowledgment after a while.

STEPHEN S. FOSTER: Will you give us the evidence that the
statement that the women of this country do not want the ballot
is not true? I should be glad to believe that; but in my
experience the worst opposition to the progress of Woman's Rights
has come from woman herself. The greatest indifference to the
cause is to be found among women, and not among men. I wish it
were not so. I hope I am mistaken. But I believe nine out of
every ten of our public speakers will tell you that they find
more help, more sympathy from men than from women.

Rev. S. J. MAY: I should like to have that question settled, so
far as the women present are concerned. Will as many of you as
_will vote_ when the right is awarded to you, please to manifest
it by rising.

Nearly the whole of the ladies present immediately arose. Indeed,
those on the platform, could not see a single woman who retained her
seat.

Mrs. GAGE: During the last fifteen years, with the utmost
industry I could use in ascertaining the public opinion in this
country, I have never found one solitary instance of a woman,
whom I could meet alone by her fireside, where there was no fear
of public opinion, or the minister, or the law-maker, or her
father, or her husband, who did not tell me s