mechanic, and made a barrel before I was ten years old. The
cooper told my father, "Fanny made that barrel, and has done it
quicker and better than any boy I have had after six months'
training." My father looked at it and said, "What a pity that you
were not born a boy, so that you could be good for something. Run
into the house, child, and go to knitting." So I went and knit
stockings, and my father hired an apprentice boy, and paid him
two dollars a week for making barrels. Now, I was born to make
barrels, but they would not let me. Thousands of girls are born
with mechanical fingers. Thousands of girls have a muscular
development that could do the work of the world as well as men;
and there are thousands of men born to effeminacy and weakness.

Mrs. STANTON then addressed the meeting. As her line of argument
was a summary of that recently made before the Judiciary
Committee of the Legislature, and already published, it need not
here be repeated.

Miss ANTHONY announced that they would have another opportunity
to hear Sojourner Truth, and, for the information of those who
did not know, she would say that Sojourner was for forty years a
slave in this State. She is not a product of the barbarism of
South Carolina, but of the barbarism of New York, and one of her
fingers was chopped off by her cruel master in a moment of anger.

SOJOURNER TRUTH said: I have lived on through all that has taken
place these forty years in the anti-slavery cause, and I have
plead with all the force I had that the day might come that the
colored people might own their soul and body. Well, the day has
come, although it came through blood. It makes no difference how
it came--it did come. (Applause). I am sorry it came in that way.
We are now trying for liberty that requires no blood--that women
shall have their rights--not rights from you. Give them what
belongs to them; they ask it kindly too. (Laughter). I ask it
kindly. Now I want it done very quick. It can be done in a few
years. How good it would be. I would like to go up to the polls
myself. (Laughter). I own a little house in Battle Creek,
Michigan. Well, every year I got a tax to pay. Taxes, you see, be
taxes. Well, a road tax sounds large. Road tax, school tax, and
all these things. Well, there was wome