we
consider this proposition more than liberal--it was chivalric and
generous. We listened with interest to some of the arguments
_pro_ and _con_, and propose here to recapitulate their
substance, that our readers may see at a glance the present
position and bearing of the controversy. We will begin with the
first speech we heard, that of

Rev. WM. H. CHANNING: They say the public platform is not in
woman's sphere; but let us understand why. Jenny Lind stands on
that platform before thousands of men and women, and sings, "I
know that my Redeemer liveth," with all hearts approving, all
voices applauding, and nobody lisps a word that she is out of her
sphere. Well, Antoinette Brown believes the sentiment so sang to
be the hope of a lost world, and feels herself called to bear
witness in behalf of that religion, and to commend His salvation
to the understanding and hearts of all who will hear her. Why may
she not obey this impulse, and bear the tidings of a world's
salvation to those perishing in darkness and sin? What is there
unfeminine or revolting in her preaching the truth which Jenny
Lind may sing without objection and amid universal applause?

Answer by things "in male costumes." Hiss-s-s.

Mrs. ERNESTINE L. ROSE: The law declares husband and wife one;
and such we all feel that they should be, and must be when the
marriage is a true one. Now, why should that same law base their
union or oneness on inequality or subjugation? The wife dies and
the husband inherits all her property, as is right; but let the
husband die, and the greater part of the property is taken from
the wife and given to others, even though all that property was
earned or inherited by the wife. She may be turned out of the
house she was born in and which was hers until marriage, and see
it given to her husband's brothers or other kindred who are
strangers to her. I insist that the wife should own and inherit
the property of the husband just to the same extent that the
husband inherits that of the wife--why not?

Answer to the aforesaid--Hiss-s-s-s! Bow-ow-ow!

HARRIOT K. HUNT: I plant myself on the basis of the Declaration
of Independence and insist, with our Revolutionary sires, that
taxation without representation is tyranny. Well; here am I, an
indepen