am willing to lay down all this sacrifice for the cause of
liberty. We foreigners know the preciousness of that great, noble
gift a great deal better than you, because you never were in
slavery, but we are born in it. Germany pines for freedom. In
Germany we sacrificed our wealth and ornaments for it, and the
women in this country ought to do the same. We can not fight in
the battles, but we can do this, and it is all we can do. The
speaker, before me, remarked that Abraham Lincoln was two years
before he emancipated slaves. She thought it wrong. It took
eighteen hundred years in Europe to emancipate the Jews, and they
are not emancipated now. Among great and intelligent peoples like
Germany and France, until 1814 no Jew had the right to go on the
pavement; they had to go in the middle of the street, where the
horses walked! It took more than two years to emancipate the
people of the North from the idea that the negro was not a human
being, and that he had the right to be a free man. A great many
will find fault in the resolution that the negro shall be free
and equal, because our equal not every human being can be; but
free every human being has a right to be. He can only be equal in
his rights. (Applause).

Mrs. ROSE called for the reading of the resolutions, which after
a spirited discussion, all except the fifth, were unanimously
adopted.

Mrs. HOYT, of Wisconsin, said: _Mrs. President_--I object to the
passage of the fifth resolution, not because I object to the
sentiment expressed; but I do not think it is the time to bring
before this meeting, assembled for the purpose of devising the
best ways and means by which women may properly assist the
Government in its struggle against treason, anything which could
in the least prejudice the interest in this cause which is so
dear to us all. We all know that Woman's Rights as an _ism_ has
not been received with entire favor by the women of the country,
and I know that there are thousands of earnest, loyal, and able
women who will not go into any movement of this kind, if this
idea is made prominent. (Applause). I came here from Wisconsin
hoping to meet the earnest women of the country. I hoped that
nothing that would in any way damage the cause so dear to us all
would be brought forward