self-respect, they would scorn to remain one hour in any church
in which they were not considered and recognized as equals.

OLIVER JOHNSON said there was a new church formed called
"Progressive Friends," in which men and women stood on perfect
equality. He said there was another church (Henry Ward Beecher's)
in Brooklyn, where women were expected to vote on all questions
connected with the business affairs of the congregation. Another
church in this city (Rev. Dr. Cheever's) had a difficulty in
which the capitalists tried to dismiss the pastor, because he
maintained the right of the slave to freedom, and of the woman to
the elective franchise. He agreed with Mr. Pillsbury that it was
woman's duty to test her equality in the Church as well as the
State.

AARON M. POWELL took the same ground. As women made the large
majority in the churches, they could easily secure equal rights
there if united in an effort to do so. Why, said he, are there no
young women sitting at the reporters' desks, taking note of the
proceedings of this Convention? He advocated the elective
franchise, saying that no class could be protected in all its
rights without a voice in the laws.

A Mr. WARREN said he had no objection to woman's claiming
equality, but when they declared their superiority, they injured
themselves and the rising generation in teaching the young to
disrespect the men of the household. (Great laughter and hisses).
Woman might be the savior of man, but was not God, and had no
place in the Godhead. (Laughter and cheers). He spoke from
experience when he said men had already suffered much from the
tyrannical usurpations of women. Let woman be the true helpmate
of man, religiously, politically, morally, socially; but, oh!
said he, in a sorrowful tone, it will be a sad day for the race
when woman takes command, and man is pushed aside. (Convulsive
laughter, and cries of "Give us your experience.")

Mrs. FARNHAM was glad the subject of woman's superiority had been
broached, and only regretted that as a scientific fact it could
not be more seriously discussed.

A gentleman deprecated the fact that Mr. Warren had not been more
fully heard.

THE PRESIDENT said it was the audience and not the platform that
laughed. Loud calls were made for