his republic their
true work and sphere. Such men as Carl Schurz, breathing for the
first time the free air of our free land, object to what we
consider the higher education of women, fitting them for the
trades and professions, for the sciences and arts, and
self-complacently point Lucretia Mott, Maria Mitchell, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Susan B. Anthony, to their appropriate sphere, as
housekeepers with a string of keys, like Madam Bismark, dangling
around their waists.

The Rev. J. G. Holland, the Tupper of our American literature,
thanks his Creator that woman has no specialty. She was called
into being for man's happiness and interest--his helpmeet--to
wait and watch his movements, to second his endeavors, to fight
the hard battle of life behind him whose brain may be dizzy with
excess, whose limbs may be paralyzed, or if sound in body, may be
without aim or ambition, without plans or projects, destitute of
executive ability or good judgment in the business affairs of
life. And such sentimentalists, after demoralizing women with
their twaddle, discourage our demand for the right of suffrage by
pointing us to the fact that the majority of women are
indifferent to this movement in their behalf. Suppose they are;
have not the masses of all oppressed classes been apathetic and
indifferent until partial success crowned the enthusiasm of the
few? Carl Schurz would not have been exiled from his native land
could he have roused the majority of his countrymen to the same
love of liberty which burned in his own soul. Were his dreams of
freedom less real because the stolid masses were not awake to
their significance? Shall a soul that accepts martyrdom for a
principle be told he is sacrificing himself to a shadow because
the multitude can neither see nor appreciate the idea?

I do not feel like rejoicing over any privileges already granted
to my sex, until all our rights are conceded and secured and the
principle of equality recognized and proclaimed, for every step
that brings us to a more equal plane with man but makes us more
keenly feel the loss of those rights we are still denied--more
susceptible to the insults of his assumptions and usurpations of
power. As I sum up the indignities toward women, as illustrated
by recent judicial decisions