e columns to the proceedings of our conventions.

To this letter, Henry B. Blackwell, brother of Dr. Elizabeth
Blackwell, and the future husband of Lucy Stone, pertinently replied,
saying:

It is suggested that woman's cause should be advocated by women
only. The writer of that letter is a true friend of this reform,
and yet I feel that I owe you no apology for standing on this
platform. But if I do, this is sufficient, that I am the son of a
woman, and the brother of a woman. I know that this is their
cause, but I feel that it is mine also. Their happiness is my
happiness, their misery my misery.

The interests of the sexes are inseparably connected, and in the
elevation of one lies the salvation of the other. Therefore I
claim a part in the last and grandest movement of the ages; for
whatever concerns woman concerns the race. In every human
enterprise the sexes should go hand in hand. Experience sanctions
the statement. I know of but few movements in history, which have
gone on successfully without the aid of woman. One of these is
war--the work of human slaughter. Another has been the digging of
gold in California. I have yet to learn what advantages the world
has derived from either. Whenever the sexes have been severed in
politics, in business, in religion, the result has been
demoralization.

Mr. Blackwell spoke with great eloquence for nearly an hour,
advocating the political, civil, and moral equality of woman. He
showed the power of the ballot in combating unjust laws, opening
college doors, securing equal pay for equal work, dignifying the
marriage relation, by making woman an equal partner, not a subject. He
paid a glowing eulogy to Mary Wollstonecroft. He said:

We need higher ideas of marriage. There is scarcely a young man
here who does not hope to be a husband and a father; nor a young
woman who does not expect to be a wife and a mother. But who
does not revolt at the idea of perpetuating a race inferior to
ourselves? For myself I could not desire a degenerate family. I
would not wish for a race which would not be head and shoulders
above what I had been. Let me say to men, select women worthy to
be wives. The world is overstocked with these mis-begotten
children of undeveloped mothers. No man who has ever seen the
symmetrical character of a true woman, can