were not introduced. This movement must be sacred to
the one object of assisting our Government. I would add one more
remark, that though the women of the Revolution did help our
Government in that early struggle, they did not find it necessary
to set forth in any theoretical or clamorous way their right to
equal suffrage or equal political position, though doubtless they
believed, as much as any of us, in the advancement of woman.

A LADY: I want to ask the lady who just spoke if the women of the
Revolution found it necessary to form Loyal Leagues? We are not
bound to do just as the women of the Revolution did. (Applause
and laughter).

LUCY N. COLEMAN, of Rochester, N. Y.: I wish to say, in the first
place, something a little remote from the point, which I have in
my mind just now. A peculiar sensitiveness seems to have come
over some of the ladies here in reference to the anti-slavery
spirit of the resolutions. It seems to me impossible that a
company of women could stand upon this platform without catching
something of the anti-slavery spirit, and without expressing, to
some extent, their sympathy with the advancement of human rights.
It is the Anti-Slavery women and the Woman's Rights women who
called this meeting, and who have most effectually aided in this
movement. Their hearts bleed to the very core that our nation is
to-day suffering to its depths, and they came together to devise
means whereby they could help the country in its great calamity.
I respect the woman who opposed this resolution, for daring to
say so much. She says that it is an Anti-Slavery Convention that
is in session. So it is, and something more. (Applause). She says
it is a Woman's Rights Convention. So it is, and even more than
that; it is a World's Convention. (Applause). Another woman (I
rejoice to hear that lisping, foreign tongue) says that our
sphere is so narrow that we should be careful to keep within it.
All honor to her, that she dared to say even that. I recognize
for myself no narrow sphere. (Applause). Where you may work, my
brother, I may work. I would willingly stand upon the
battle-field, and would be glad to receive the balls in my
person, if in that way I could do more for my country's good than
in any other. I recognize no right of any man or o