is
different from man, man can not discharge them; and if there be
any truth in holding (as our institutions do), that the voice of
the whole is the nearest approach we can make to eternal truth,
we, of course, can not arrive at it till woman, as well as man,
is heard in the search for it. God, not man, nor herself, made
her woman; there is nothing arbitrary in the distinction; and let
the true woman go where she may, she will retain her womanhood.
We wish to see her enter into politics, not to degrade herself,
but to bring them up to her own level of simple-heartedness and
purity of soul. Can man ever raise them to that lofty height?
Never! woman alone can do it; it is a work reserved for her, and
by her and her alone will it be done. (Roars of laughter).

Whose exploits leave the brightest lines of moral courage on the
historic page? Those of woman! When the French had broken through
the barriers, the maid of Saragossa rushed to the breach. The
demand of the invader came to Palafox, and he trembled; but what
the heart of man was unequal to, the courage of woman could
perform, and the answer of the heroic maiden was, "War to the
knife!" And so, always when man has faltered, woman, earnest and
simple-hearted, has answered, War to the knife with evil! (A
frightful yell from the gallery.) I perceive my friend is anxious
to hear a woman speak to him as only a woman can. I will soon
give way and let him be gratified; but, first, I will tell him an
anecdote. A woman once told me she never saw a horse so wild that
she could not tame him. I asked her how, and she answered,
"Simply by whispering in his ear." Our wild friend in the
gallery will probably receive some benefit listening to the
voice of a woman, if his ears be only long enough to hear her.
(Prolonged cheers).

ANTOINETTE BROWN said: Our cause is progressing triumphantly; and
yet it is not without some to oppose it. Who are they? Persons
utterly ignorant of the claims which its advocates advance,
ignorant alike of the wrongs existing and of the remedy proposed.
They suppose that a few mad-cap reformers are endeavoring to
overthrow dame Nature, to invert society, to play the part of
merciless innovators to imperil religion, to place all civil and
religious freedom in jeopardy; that i