e workers would rejoice to have
the power which lies in the ballot and would be infinitely better
equipped for their work.

Mrs. Mary B. Clay (Ky.) opened the last day's session with a forcible
address entitled, Are American Women Civil and Political Slaves? She
proved the affirmative of her question by quoting the spoken and
written declarations of the greatest statesmen on the right of
individual representation and the exceptions made against women,
citing Walker, the legal writer: "This language applied to males would
be the exact definition of political slavery; applied to females,
custom does not so regard it."

Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway (Ore.) described the recent arbitrary and
unwarranted disfranchisement of the women of Washington Territory.
Frederick Douglass was loudly called for and in responding expressed
his gratitude to women, "who were chiefly instrumental in liberating
my people from actual chains of bondage," and declared his full belief
in their right to the franchise.

Mrs. Helen M. Gougar (Ind.) made a strong speech upon Partisan or
Patriot? In her address on Woman in Marriage Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby,
editor of the _Woman's Tribune_, said:

It is customary to regard marriage as of even more importance to
woman than to man, since the maternal, social and household
duties involved in it consume the greater portion of the time and
thought of a large majority. Love, it is commonly said, is an
incident in a man's life, but makes or mars a woman's whole
existence. This, however, is one of the many popular delusions
crystallized into opinion by apt phraseology. To one who believes
in the divinely intended equality of the sexes it is impossible
to consider that any mutual relation is an incident for the one
and the total of existence for the other. We may lay it down as a
premise upon which to base our whole reasoning that all mutual
relations of the sexes are not only divinely intended to, but
actually do bring equal joys, pains, pleasures and sacrifices to
both. Whatever mistake one has made has acted upon the other, and
reacted equally upon the first.

The one great mistake of the ages--since woman lost her primal
independence and supremacy--to which is due all the sins and
sorrows growing out of the association of the sexes, has been in
making woman a passive agent instead of an equal factor in
arr