the glory of them, if He would fall down and worship him; but it
was well known that the poor devil had not a foot to give. And so
man could give no rights to woman. She was born with rights, and
only wanted man to recognize them. Her purpose was to demand them
persistently, or, if need be, like the Prince of Orange, die in
the last ditch before she surrendered them. (Applause).

Rev. Samuel Longfellow, of Brooklyn, N. Y., brother of the poet, was
next introduced, and spoke as follows:

Mrs. PRESIDENT:--It might seem, that on a platform like this,
when a woman speaks, her presence is not merely a plea and an
argument, but also a proof. When a woman speaks, and speaks well,
speaks so as to interest and move and persuade men, there is no
need of any argument back of that to prove that she has the
liberty and the right, and that it is a part of her sphere to do
it. She has done it; and that of itself is the whole
argument--both premise and conclusion in one. And I think if
there were none but men present here, it would be better that
only women should speak; for there is a subtle power which God
implanted from the first in woman over man, so that the thought
of her mind and the tone of her voice are more powerful over us
than almost any man, be he eloquent as he may; but not only men
are here, but women, also; and as our friend who has just spoken
has addressed herself to men, I will address myself to women.

I have often thought that the obstacle in the way of a full
allowance and recognition of woman's right to stand side by side
with man in all the departments of life, and to add her feminine
influence and fiber twined in with man's influence and fiber, in
all things that are thought and done, that the obstacle lay more
in woman than in man. I have often thought that men were more
willing to accept these ideas and grant these claims than women
were even to make the claims for themselves; and I have no doubt
that those women who have labored, through so much difficulty,
through so much scorn and obloquy, in behalf of these simple
rights, will tell you that they have often found the greatest
opposition among their own sex.

The simple proposition which, it seems to me, includes the whole
of this matter, is, what I should call a self-evident
truth