e, and human rights, and the
rights of the negro, they have not the moral courage to say
anything for the rights of woman.

In proportion to power is responsibility. Our Republican senators
and members of Congress have taken upon themselves great power.
They have made great professions. There is a very good maxim, "Of
him to whom much is given, much shall be required." In proportion
to their claims to be friends of human freedom, lovers of human
rights, do we demand of them our rights and justice.

It is a shame to talk about licensing a social evil. It is a
shame to this Republic. It is a violation of woman's nature. It
is an insult to womanhood; and if woman has one drop of pure
blood stirring in her heart, she must revolt against it. At the
same time, I say to the Legislature that, if you enact laws
against social evils, whatever those laws are, let them be alike
for man and for woman. (Applause.) If you want to derive a
revenue from the corruption of the community, let it be drawn
alike from both sexes. The social evil belongs to both; the
social remedy must belong to both. Do not degrade woman any more
than she is already degraded. Perchance she is driven, through
your injustice, to that step to maintain her wretched existence,
because every office of emolument is barred against her. Let
woman have the franchise; let all the avenues of society be
thrown open before her, according to her powers and her
capacities, and there will be no need to talk about social evils.

Major JAMES HAGGERTY said: It is no new thing for me to be found
among Anti-Slavery people. I believe it was among Anti-Slavery
people that I received my American culture. I see the old faces
here upon this platform and in this house--some that I first met
when I landed in this country, in 1856--Parker Pillsbury, as
remorseless as ever; Mrs. Stanton, as bold and strong for the
truth as ever. I see the same uncompromising people here, and I
feel that I have been as uncompromising as any of them; for,
although I have been and am identified with the Republican party
in politics, no man ever heard me, on any platform, compromise
the rights of another. Woman's Rights is an idea against which my
prejudices array themselves, but my logic says, if you would be a
true man, you