ore interest in
political affairs, and with the noble work she did during the
campaign, it seems to me most extraordinary that the men who have
worked thus nobly for the freedom of one class, should yet refuse
freedom to the other class.

PHILLIP D. MOORE rose in the body of the building and said:
During this last Presidential canvass I heard more than once the
oldest member of Congress declare that Freedom was based upon the
law of God, which was declared in our Bill of Rights--our
Declaration of Independence--that it was the inalienable right of
all mankind to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness.
He placed this last Presidential struggle upon that right higher
than all human law; and upon that it seems this contest in
behalf of human rights is based. I think that we should adopt
these resolutions, and also appeal to the legislative bodies,
where, I believe, there are men who will hear and heed the voice
of justice.

Rev. T. W. HIGGINSON took the floor, and expressed his hope that
they would have more speaking from the floor and less from the
platform. As a Republican voter, he would take his stand in
support of these resolutions; and he would declare that it was
true that the close of the Presidential election was the time for
a woman's Convention to be held. It was true that the Republican
party was pledged, if it had any manliness in it, to support the
cause of women, to whom it had applied to support its cause every
day; and it was positively true that, if there were such a thing
in the land as a Democratic party, that party was the party of
the women also. As a further illustration of the idea expressed
by the gentleman who had preceded him, he would state the fact
that, when he was invited to Vermont to address the Legislature
in favor of the appropriation of $20,000 for Kansas,[150] the
meeting was postponed, on the ground that the shortness of the
notice would not allow time for procuring the attendance of the
women of the village to fill the galleries, and by their sympathy
to influence the determination of the members of the Legislature
who might be present. Accordingly they waited a little longer,
gave sufficient notice, got the gallery full of ladies, and
ultimately got the $20,000 appropriation, too. But alwa