the heart a double machinery is
used, there is a double auricle and a double ventricle. It is so
in the inspirations which flow from God to society; they must
pass twice, once through the heart of man, once through the heart
of woman; they must stream through the reforming and through the
conservative organ; and thus, out of the very difference which
exists between man and woman, arises the necessity for their
co-operation. It has never been asserted that man and woman are
alike; if they were, where would be the necessity for urging the
claims of the one? No; they differ, and for that very reason it
is, that only through the action of both, can the fullness of
their being find development and expression. We know that woman
exerts an influence on man, as man does on woman, to call forth
his latent resources. In the difference, we find a call for
union. And to this union we perceive no limit; on the contrary,
whatever necessity there is for the combination in the private,
there is the same necessity for it in the public sphere. (Long
continued stamping and cheers).

And now I will meet the two great objections made. It is not
objectionable, it is said, that woman, in some spheres of life,
should give an expression of her intellect; but, on the platform,
she loses her character of woman, and becomes incidentally
masculine. Just observe the practical absurdities of which
society is guilty. The largest assemblies greet with clamors
Jenny Lind, when she enchains the ear and exalts the soul with
the sublime strain, "I know that my Redeemer liveth"; but when
Mrs. Mott or Miss Brown stands with a simple voice, and in the
spirit of truth, to make manifest the honor due to our Redeemer,
rowdies hiss, and respectable Christians veil their faces! So,
woman can sing, but not speak, that "our Redeemer liveth." Again,
the great men of our land do not consider it unworthy of their
character to take from Fanny Ellsler what she makes by the
movement of her limbs, by a mere mechanical action,[119] to aid
in erecting a column to commemorate our struggles for liberty.
The dollars are received and built into the column; but when Mrs.
Rose or Mrs. Foster, who feels the spirit of justice within her,
and who has felt the injustice of the laws, stands up to show