There is not a man in the world, who, if such a life were offered
him, would not sooner lie down peacefully in his grave, than in a
paltry cage fret away a life that ought to have been broad and
grand, as God who gave it intended it should be.

Horace Greeley says he thinks the intellect of woman is not equal
to that of man. Horace Greeley was a poor boy, and had to make
his way up in the world. He has reached a position that is
attained by few. When he speaks the nation listens. Suppose that
he had been told by his mother, as she placed her hand upon his
little head, with all the tenderness that gushes from a mother's
heart, "My son, here is your brother; he shall grow up in the
world of society, and no school or college shall be closed
against him; the great school of life shall be free to him; he
shall have a voice in making the laws he is to obey; he shall pay
taxes, and he shall direct the use of the tax; but for you, alas!
none of these places will be open; you must therefore rest
satisfied with helping your brother. He will win power and
wealth, but none of it shall be your own; if you seek to enter
into the same position that he is in, the world will scorn and
deride you." And if when he came into life he had found all that
his mother told him was true, what think you would have been the
success of Horace Greeley, with all this mountain-weight upon
him? Would he have taken the place he has now? I am glad he was
not hindered; I am only sorry that woman is. It is too early for
him or us to say what the intellect of woman is, till she has had
the freedom to try its powers. I am reminded of what Frederick
Douglass said of the negroes: "You shut us out of the schools and
colleges, you put your foot on us, and then say, Why don't you
know something?" That is just what is said to us.

Let us teach men who talk of the wrongs perpetrated in Kansas,
that they are doing the very same thing to us here. One need not
go to Kansas to find border ruffians, or bogus legislation, for
they can all be found here; and when the future historian shall
record that in Kansas, Missourians deprived free State men of the
franchise, and that New York men deprived the women of the same,
it will be said that the border ruffians of Missouri and the
border ruffia