e collegians as "infidels," and the collegians showed
the peasants to be "traitors." Cordially they hated each other;
blindly they went down to their graves, thinking they had been
fighting each other; but, under the providence of God, they were
entwined in the same movement. Now, if I could throw you back
to-day into the civilization of Greece and Rome, I could show you
the fact that our question is two thousand years old. [Cheers.]
In the truest sense, it did not begin in 1848, as my friend Dr.
Hunt stated; it began centuries ago. Did you ever hear of the old
man who went to the doctor, and asked him to teach him to speak
prose? "Why, my dear fellow," was the reply, "you have been
speaking prose all your life." But he did not know it. So with
some people in regard to the movement for Woman's Rights.

Many think the steps taken since 1850 are shaking this land with
a new infidelity. Now, this infidelity is a good deal older than
the New Testament. When man began his pilgrimage from the cradle
of Asia, woman was not allowed to speak before a court of
justice. To kill a woman was just as great a sin as to kill a
cow, and no greater. To sell an unlicensed herb in the city of
Calcutta, was exactly the same crime as to kill a woman. She did
not belong to the human race. Come down thousands of years, and
the civilization of Greece said, "Woman has not got enough of
truth in her to be trusted in the court of justice;" and, if her
husband wants to give her to a brother or friend, he can take her
to their door, and say, "Here, I give you this." And so it
continues till you reach the feudal ages; when woman, though she
might be queen or duchess, was often not competent to testify in
a court of justice. She had not soul enough, men believed, to
know a truth from a lie. That is the code of the feudal system.
But all at once the world has waked up, and thinks a man is not a
man because he has a pound of muscle, or because he has a
stalwart arm; but because he has thoughts, ideas, purposes: he
can commit crime, and he is capable of virtue.

No man is born in a day. A baby is always six months old before
he is twenty-one. Our fathers, who first reasoned that God made
all men equal, said: "You sha'n't hang a man until you have asked
him if he consents to th