eceives neither property nor children, unless by an express
decree of the court. She is alike punished, whether innocent or
guilty. Mrs. Gage also discussed the question so often put, "What
has woman to do with politics?" She said the country must look to
women for its salvation.

Sojourner Truth, a tall colored woman, well known in anti-slavery
circles, and called the Lybian Sybil, made her appearance on the
platform. This was the signal for a fresh outburst from the mob; for
at every session every man of them was promptly in his place, at
twenty-five cents a head. And this was the one redeeming feature of
this mob--it paid all expenses, and left a surplus in the treasury.
Sojourner combined in herself, as an individual, the two most hated
elements of humanity. She was black, and she was a woman, and all the
insults that could be cast upon color and sex were together hurled at
her; but there she stood, calm and dignified, a grand, wise woman, who
could neither read nor write, and yet with deep insight could
penetrate the very soul of the universe about her. As soon as the
terrible turmoil was in a measure quelled

SHE SAID: Is it not good for me to come and draw forth a spirit,
to see what kind of spirit people are of? I see that some of you
have got the spirit of a goose, and some have got the spirit of a
snake. I feel at home here. I come to you, citizens of New York,
as I suppose you ought to be. I am a citizen of the State of New
York; I was born in it, and I was a slave in the State of New
York; and now I am a good citizen of this State. I was born here,
and I can tell you I feel at home here. I've been lookin' round
and watchin' things, and I know a little mite 'bout Woman's
Rights, too. I come forth to speak 'bout Woman's Rights, and want
to throw in my little mite, to keep the scales a-movin'. I know
that it feels a kind o' hissin' and ticklin' like to see a
colored woman get up and tell you about things, and Woman's
Rights. We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought
we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now;
we will come up again, and now I am here.

I was a-thinkin', when I see women contendin' for their rights, I
was a-thinkin' what a difference there is now, and what there was
in old times. I have only a few minutes to speak; but in the old
times the