beth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Miss Anthony, I am glad to stand beside you while I tell these
women from the other side of the world who has brought them here.
This, ladies of Europe, is your great prototype--this the woman
who has trodden the trackless fields of the pioneer till the
thorns are buried in roses; this, the woman who has lived to hear
the hisses turn to dulcet strains of music; the woman who has
dared to plead for every good cause under heaven, who opened her
door to the fleeing slave and claimed the outcast for a brother;
the woman beloved of her own country and honored in all
countries.

Although a slow lesson to learn it has always proved that the
grandeur of a nation was shown by the respect paid to woman. The
brightest garlands of Spain, linked with immortelles, twine about
the name of Isabella. The highest glory of England today is not
that she placed her crown on the brow of her trusted and beloved
new monarch, a man whom the nations of the earth welcome to their
galaxy of rulers, but that she lays her mantle of fifty years'
rule through war and peace and progress such as never was known
before, upon the grave of a woman--that mantle on which no stain
has ever rested and on which the sunlight of happiness is
shadowed and dimmed only by the tears of a sorrowing nation, as
it is reverently borne to its honored rest. England, thank God
you had no Salic law! America has none, and, Miss Anthony, the
path which you have trodden through these oft painful years leads
to that goal; and, though your eyes will have opened upon the
blessed light of the heaven beyond, verily there may be some
standing here who shall not taste death until these things come.

Ladies and Delegates: In the name of the noble leader who has
called you, we welcome you. In the name of our country, its great
institutions of learning and equal privileges to all, we welcome
you. In the name of the brotherhood of man, we welcome you. In
the name of our never-forgotten pioneers, a Mott, a Stone, a
Gage, a Griffing, a Garrison, a May, a Foster, a Douglass, a
Phillips, we reverently welcome you. In the name of God and
humanity, in the name of the angels of earth and the angels of
heaven, we welcome you to our shores, to our halls, to our homes
and t