nd notwithstanding Cato, the Censor, was
against them, affirming that men must have failed in their duty
or women would not be clamorous for their rights, yet the
obnoxious law was repealed.

In that story of Mr. Higginson's, of the heroic woman in Kansas
whose left arm was cut off, there is a lesson for us to learn. I
tell you, ladies, though we have our left hand cut off by unjust
laws and customs, we have yet the right hand left; and when we
once demand the ballot with as much firmness as that Kansas
daughter did her horse, believe me, it will not be in the power
of men to withhold it--even the border ruffians among them will
hasten to restore it. After all, the fault is our own. We have
sat to

"Suckle fools, and chronicle small beer;"

and, in inglorious ease, have forgotten that we are integral
parts in the fabric of human society--that all that interests the
race, interests us. We have never once, as a body, claimed the
practical application of the principles of our government. It is
our own fault. Let it be so no longer. Let us say to men:
"Government is just only when it obtains the consent of the
governed": we are governed, _surrender to us our ballot_. If they
deride, still answer: Surrender our ballot! _and they will give
it up_. "It is not in our stars that we are underlings, but in
ourselves." Woman has sat, like Mordecai at the king's gate,
hoping that her silent presence would bring justice; but justice
has not come. The world has talked of universal suffrage; but it
has made it universal only to man. It is time we spoke and acted.
It is time we gave man faith in woman--and, still more, woman
faith in herself. It is time both men and women knew that
whatever has been achieved by woman in the realm of mind or
matter, has been achieved by right womanly women. Let us then
work, and continue to work, until the world shall assent to our
right to do whatever the capacities God has given us enable us to
do.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY rose and said that several gentlemen had handed
her contributions, one $40, another $25. She trusted that all New
York men and women would find they had something more to do than
listen to speeches.

LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY.

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