refore can have no confidence in others. But the assertion is
false; it is a libel on human nature. It is the indissoluble
chain that corrodes the flesh. Remove the indissolubility, and
there would be less separation than now, for it would place the
parties on their good behavior, the same as during courtship.
Human nature is not quite so changeable; give it more freedom,
and it will be less so. We are a good deal the creatures of
habit, but we will not be forced. We live (I speak from
experience) in uncomfortable houses for years, rather than move,
though we have the privilege to do so every year; but force any
one to live for life in one house, and he would run away from it,
though it were a palace.

But Mr. Greeley asks, "How could the mother look the child in the
face, if she married a second time?" With infinitely better grace
and better conscience than to live as some do now, and show their
children the degrading example, how utterly father and mother
despise and hate each other, and still live together as husband
and wife. She could say to her child, "As, unfortunately, your
father proved himself unworthy, your mother could not be so
unworthy as to continue to live with him. As he failed to be a
true father to you, I have endeavored to supply his place with
one, who, though not entitled to the name, will, I hope, prove
himself one in the performance of a father's duties." (Applause).

Finally, educate woman, to enable her to promote her
independence, and she will not be obliged to marry for a home and
a subsistence. Give the wife an equal right with the husband in
the property acquired after marriage, and it will be a bond of
union between them. Diamond cement, applied on both sides of a
fractured vase, re-unites the parts, and prevents them from
falling asunder. A gold band is more efficacious than an iron
law. Until now, the gold has all been on one side, and the iron
law on the other. Remove it; place the golden band of justice and
mutual interest around both husband and wife, and it will hide
the little fractures which may have occurred, even from their own
perception, and allow them effectually to re-unite. A union of
interest helps to preserve a union of hearts. (Loud applause).

WENDELL PHILLIPS then said: I object to entering