a drunken white man he is capable of
exercising the elective franchise.

LAVINIA C. DUNDORE, introduced as the lady who had made
application for an appointment as a constable and been refused,
made a pithy address, in which she alluded to her recent
disappointment.

MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE spoke of the influence of the church on
woman's liberties, and then referred to a large number of law
books--ancient and modern, ecclesiastical and lay--in which the
liberties of woman were more or less abridged; the equality of
sexes which obtained in Rome before the Christian era, and the
gradual discrimination in favor of men which crept in with the
growth of the church.

Mrs. DEVEREUX BLAKE said there is no aspect of this question that
strikes us so forcibly as the total ignoring of women by public
men. However polite they may be in private life, when they come
to public affairs they seem to forget that women exist. The men
who framed the last amendment to the constitution seemed to have
wholly forgotten that women existed or had rights.... Huxley said
in reply to an inquiry as to woman suffrage, "Of course I'm in
favor of it. Does it become us to lay additional burdens on those
who are already overweighted?" It is always the little men who
oppose us; the big-hearted men help us along. All in this
audience are of the broad-shouldered type, and I hope all will go
out prepared to advocate our principles. In reply to the
objection that women do not need the right to vote because men
represent them so well, she asked if any man in the audience ever
asked his wife how he should vote, and told him to stand up if
there was such a one. [Here a young man in the back part of the
hall stood up amidst loud applause.]

The various resolutions were discussed at great length and adopted,
though much difference of opinion was expressed on the last, which
demands that intelligence shall be made the basis of suffrage:

_Resolved_, That the National Constitution should be so amended
as to secure to United States citizens at home the same
protection for their individual rights against State tyranny, as
is now guaranteed everywhere against foreign aggressions.

_Resolved_, That the civil and political rights of the educated
tax-paying women of this nation should take precedenc