nt means of
support, either to one of the professions or the business best
fitted to exercise their talents. Being placed in a position
compelling them to act, has caused many persons to discover
talents in themselves they were before unaware of possessing.
Great emergencies produce great leaders, by arousing hitherto
dormant energies.

Let us look at the rights it is boasted women now possess. After
marriage the husband and wife are considered as one person in
law, which I hold to be false from the very laws applicable to
married parties. Were it so, the act of one would be as binding
as the act of the other, and wise legislators would not need to
enact statutes defining the peculiar rights of each; were it so,
a woman could not legally be a man's inferior. Such a thing would
be a veritable impossibility. One-half of a person can not be
made the protection or direction of the other half. Blackstone
says "a woman may indeed be attorney for her husband, for that
implies no separation from, but rather a representation of, her
lord. And a husband may also bequeath anything to his wife by
will; for it can not take effect till the coverture is determined
by his death." After stating at considerable length, the reasons
showing their unity, the learned commentator proceeds to cut the
knot, and show they are not one, but are considered as two
persons, one superior, the one inferior, and not only so, but the
inferior in the eye of the law as acting from compulsion.

J. ELIZABETH JONES, of Ohio: This is a time of progress; and man
may sooner arrest the progress of the lightning, or the clouds,
or stay the waves of the sea, than the onward march of Truth with
her hand on her sword and her banner unfurled. I am not in the
habit of talking much about rights; I am one of those who take
them. I have occupied pulpits all over the country five days out
of seven, in lecturing on science, and have found no objection.

I do not know what all the women want, but I do know what I want
myself, and that is, what men are most unwilling to grant; the
right to vote. That includes all other rights. I want to go into
the Legislative Hall, sit on the Judicial Bench, and fill the
Executive Chair. Now do you understand me? This I claim on the
ground of humanity; and