enship and belong to themselves. In this thoroughly
militant and inspiring appeal she said:

"The tyrant, Custom, has been summoned before the bar of Common Sense.
His majesty no longer awes the multitude; his scepter is broken; his
crown is trampled in the dust; the sentence of death is pronounced upon
him. All nations, ranks and classes have, in turn, questioned and
repudiated his authority; and now, that the monster is chained and
caged, timid woman, on tiptoe, comes to look him in the face, and to
demand of her brave sires and sons, who have struck stout blows for
liberty, if, in this change of dynasty, she, too, shall find relief.
* * *

"We demand the full recognition of all our rights as citizens of the
Empire State. We are persons; natives, free-born citizens; property
holders, taxpayers, yet we are denied the exercise of our right to the
elective franchise. We support ourselves, and, in part, your schools,
colleges, churches, your poor-houses, jails, prisons, the army, the
navy, the whole machinery of government, and yet we have no voice in
your councils. We have every qualification required by the constitution
necessary to the legal voter but the one of sex. We are moral, virtuous
and intelligent, and in all respects quite equal to the proud white man
himself, and yet by your laws we are classed with idiots, lunatics and
negroes."

These two sturdy pioneers in woman's struggle present a magnificent
picture in the perspective. They did not know the meaning of
discouragement. They were strangers to weakness and fear.

Both were of heroic mould. Both were born and endowed for great service
and both made their names synonymous with the struggle of their sex to
shake off the fetters of the centuries.

Mrs. Stanton was born in 1815, ante-dating Miss Anthony by five years.
They were inseparable friends, and they who saw them together say that
their love and fealty toward each other was so beautiful and touching
that it was an inspiration to all their co-workers and shamed to silence
all their bickerings and petty jealousies.

They both lived to be over eighty years. After full half a century of
unrelaxing fidelity to their principles and unceasing battle for their
cause they saw but the beginning of the glorious fruition of their
consecrated service. Such has been the fate of all who, like these great
souls, loved principle better than popularity and humanity more than
themselves.

The women who are in the r