has to pay taxes to maintain
government, she has a right to participate in the formation and
administration of it; that as she is amenable to the laws of her
country, she is entitled to a voice in their enactment and to all
the protective advantages they can bestow; that as she is as liable
as man to all the vicissitudes of life, she ought to enjoy the same
social rights and privileges. Any difference, therefore, in
political, civil and social rights, on account of sex, is in direct
violation of the principles of justice and humanity, and as such
ought to be held up to the contempt and derision of every lover of
human freedom.

During the debate Rev. Junius Hatch, a Congregational minister from
Massachusetts, made a speech so coarse and vulgar that the president
called him to order. As he paid no attention to her, the men in the
audience choked him off with cries of "Sit down! Shut up!" His idea of
woman's modesty was that she should cast her eyes down when meeting
men, drop her veil when walking up the aisle of a church and keep her
place at home. Miss Anthony arose and stated that Mr. Hatch himself was
one of the young ministers who had been educated through the efforts of
women, and she had always noticed those were the ones most anxious for
women to keep silence in the churches. This finished Mr. Hatch.

A young teacher by the name of Brigham also attempted to define the
spheres of Mrs. Mott, Mrs. Stanton[15] and the other great advocates of
woman's freedom and declared: "Women ought to be keepers at home and
mind domestic concerns; he had no doubt the true object of this meeting
was not so much to acquire any real or supposed rights as to make the
speakers and actors conspicuous; he wished to urge upon them to claim
nothing masculine for women, for even in animals the spheres were
different. He had no objections to woman's voice being heard, but let
her seek out the breathing-holes of perdition to do her work." Mr.
Brigham was badly worsted in the argument which followed, and at the
next session he sent in a protest, declaring he had not had "justice."
He evidently did not see the satire of this complaint, since he himself
had been loudest in his refusal to do justice to woman.

A heated discussion was called out by a resolution offered by Rev.
Antoinette L. Brown declaring that "the Bible recognizes the rights,
privileges and duties of woman as a public teacher, as in eve