Mrs. PRINCE, a colored woman, invoked the blessing of God upon
the noble women engaged in this enterprise, and said she
understood woman's wrongs better than woman's rights, and gave
some of her own experiences to illustrate the degradation of her
sex in slavery. On a voyage to the West Indies the vessel was
wrecked, and she was picked up and taken to New Orleans. Going up
the Mississippi she saw the terrible suffering of a cargo of
slaves on board, and on the plantations along the shores. On her
return voyage, attached to the steamboat was a brig containing
several hundred slaves, among them a large number of young
quadroon girls with infants in their arms as fair as any lady in
this room.

MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE spoke at length of the brilliant record of
women in the past in every department of human activity--in art,
science, literature, invention; of their heroism and patriotism
in time of war, and their industry and endurance in many equally
trying emergencies in time of peace. Woman has so fully proved
her equality with man in every position she has filled, that it
is too late now for clergymen on our platform to remand us to the
subjection of the women of Corinth centuries ago. We have learned
too well the lessons of liberty taught in our revolution to
accept now the position of slaves.

Mrs. TRACY CUTLER: It would appear, after all, that we women are
placed pretty much in the condition of the veriest slave. We must
prove our own humanity by exhibiting our skill in work. We must
bring forth our own samples; put them, as it were, on the
auction-block, and thus make our claim to equality of rights a
matter of dollars and cents. Is it here only that woman can touch
man's sympathy? She then described the degraded condition of
women in Europe, and particularly in London, where poverty and
the tyranny of man have driven women to despair, until they were
forced to prostitute their own bodies to procure bread. This
vice, horribly revolting as it is, seems to go hand in hand with
intemperance. She did not wish women to go into the field to be
yoked with mules, or to turn scavenger, to pick up rags and
crusts in the streets to carry home in their aprons. Men bring
the elements to their aid, and we wish women to do the same. She
then adverted