ong enough to find out whether he was there or not;
but Mary stood there and waited, and said to Him, thinking it was
the gardener, "Tell me where they have laid Him and I will carry
Him away." See what a spirit there is. Just so let women be true
to this object, and the truth will reign triumphant.
ALFRED H. LOVE (President of the Universal Peace Society) said:
Your President paid the Universal Peace Society two visits; and
some of us, in turn, are here to reciprocate. The Universal Peace
Society, knowing that we must have purity before we can have
peace, knowing that we need our mothers, wives, and daughters
with us, knowing that we need the morality, the courage, and the
patience of the colored man with us, adopted as our first
resolution that the ballot is a peacemaker, and that with
equality there can be no war; and in another resolution we have
said that women and colored men are entitled to the ballot.
Therefore, you have us upon the same platform, working for you in
the best way we can. We mean no cowardly peace; we mean such a
peace as demands justice and equality, and world-wide
philanthropy. I put the ballot of to-day under my foot, and say I
can not use it until the mother that reared me can have the same
privilege; until the colored man, who is my equal, can have it.
E. H. HEYWOOD of Boston, said he could hardly see what business
men had upon this platform, considering how largely responsible
they are for the conditions against which women struggle, except
to confess their sins. Men had usurped the government, and shut
up women in the kitchen. It was a sad fact that woman did not
speak for herself. It was because she was crowded so low that
she could not speak. Woman wanted not merely the right to vote,
but the right to labor. The average life of the factory girl in
Lowell was only four years, as shown by a legislative
investigation. New avenues for labor must be opened. It is said
that the women on this platform are coquetting with the
Democrats. Why shouldn't they? The Democrats say, "Talk of negro
suffrage, and then refuse women the right to vote. All I have to
say is, when the negroes of Connecticut go to the polls, my wife
and daughter will go, too."
EVENING SESSION.
The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Stanton.
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