country, and in the old flag the initials were "I" and "F,"
representing Isabella and Ferdinand, showing that it was
acknowledged that the woman's initial was the more important
in this matter and to be first considered. It was a woman,
Mary Chilton, that first landed on Plymouth rock. It was a
woman, Betsy Ross, that designed our beautiful flag, the
original eagle on our silver dollar, and the seal of the
United States without which no money is legal. All the way
down in our national history woman has been hand in hand
with man, has assisted, supported and encouraged him, and
now there are women ready to help reform the life of the
body politic, and side by side with man work to purify,
refine and ennoble the world. Miss Couzins seemed Inspired
by her own thoughts and carried the audience along with her
in her flights of eloquence.

Being asked to make a few closing remarks, Mrs. May Wright Sewall
said:

Difficult, indeed, is the task of closing a three days'
convention; vain is the hope to do it with fitting words
which shall not be mere repetitions of what has been said on
this platform. The truth which bases this claim lies in a
nut-shell, and the shell seems hard to be cracked. It is
unfair, when comparing the ability of men and women, to
compare the average woman to the exceptional man, but this
is what man always does. If, perchance, he admits not only
the equality but the superiority of woman, he tells her she
must not vote because she is so nearly an angel, so much
better than he is, and this, in the face of the fact that
every angel represented or revealed has been shown in the
form of a _handsome young man_. If any class then must
abstain from meddling in politics on account of relation to
the angels, it is the men! But she informed the gentlemen
she had no fears for them on that ground, for their
relationship was not _near_ enough to cause any serious
inconvenience. Speaking of the objections to women
undertaking grave or deep studies, that woman lacks the
logical faculty, that she has only intuition, nerve-force,
etc., Mrs. Sewall said: It