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woman in an honorable position, by substituting an equal union in
marriage; such a union as is shown in the lives of those who
stand behind me now.

The movement which these women urge is sweeping on with
resistless power. Within the last seven years, every legislature,
every school, every industrial avocation has been reached by it.
This is preliminary work. The final Malakoff, the right of
suffrage, is yet to be gained. Already it has been partially
conceded, in communities differing in all else, in Canada and in
Kentucky. We have only to press on. Strange to say, the reform is
reversing the ordinary weapons of the sexes, for the women have
all the logic, and the men only gossip and slander. But it finds
its answering echo in the very hostility it creates. It has a
million hearts. Silence every woman on this platform, and the
movement still goes on. Elevate woman at any point, and you lead
directly to this. The thousand schools of New York are educating
a Woman's Rights advocate in every house.

During the latter part of Mr. Higginson's remarks, a frequent
disturbance was made by some of the occupants of the galleries, who
were evidently curious to hear the female speakers.

The President then introduced Ernestine L. Rose, who said she wished
to say to all self-respecting men, that this is the last place in
which they should create a disturbance, especially in a matter which
concerns their sisters, their wives, and their mothers.

Mrs. ROSE: This morning a young man made some remarks in
opposition to our claims. We were glad to hear him, because he
gave evidence of an earnest, sincere spirit of inquiry, which is
always welcome in every true reform movement. And as we believe
our cause to be based on truth, we know it can bear the test of
reason, and, like gold doubly refined, will come out purer and
brighter from the fiery ordeal. The young man, who, I hope, is
present, based his principal argument against us, "Because," said
he, "you can bring no authority from revelation or from nature."
I will not enter into an inquiry as to what he meant by these
terms, but I will show him the revelation from which we derive
our authority, and the nature in which it is written in living
characters. It is true we do not go to revelations written in
books; but ours is old