put every man of you under the solemn
responsibility of preparing these persons effectually for their
citizenship." Are you a rich man, afraid of your money? By that
fear you are called to educate the men who you are afraid will
vote against you. We are in a time of danger. I say to the top of
society, just as sure as you despise the bottom, you shall be
left like the oak tree that rebelled against its own
roots--better that it be struck with lightning. Take a man from
the top of society or the bottom, and if you will but give
himself to himself, give him his reason, his moral nature, and
his affections; take him with all his passions and his appetites,
and develop him, and you will find he has the same instinct for
self-government that you have. God made a man just as much to
govern himself as a pyramid to stand on its own bottom.
Self-government is a boon intended for all. This is shown in the
very organization of the human mind, with its counterbalances and
checks.... We are underpinning and undergirding society. Let us
put under it no political expediency, but the great principle of
manhood and womanhood, not merely cheating ourselves by a partial
measure, but carrying the nation forward to its great and
illustrious future, in which it will enjoy more safety, more
dignity, more sublime proportions, and a health that will know no
death. (Applause.)

HENRY C. WRIGHT said that circumstances had made Wendell Phillips
and others, leaders in the Anti-Slavery movement, as they had
made Mrs. Stanton and others leaders in this; and while they all
desired the enfranchisement of both classes, it was no more than
right that each should devote his energies to his own movement.
There need not be, and should not be any antagonism between the
two.

Miss ANTHONY said--The question is not, is this or that person
right, but what are the principles under discussion. As I
understand the difference between Abolitionists, some think this
is harvest time for the black man, and seed-sowing time for
woman. Others, with whom I agree, think we have been sowing the
seed of individual rights, the foundation idea of a republic for
the last century, and that this is the harvest time for all
citizens who pay taxes, obey the laws and are loyal to the
governmen