f any woman to
say that I should not stand there. Our sphere is _not_ narrow--it
is broad.

In reference to this resolution, Mrs. Halleck thinks it might be
well to leave out woman. No, no. Do you remember, friends, long,
long ago here in New York, an Anti-Slavery convention broke up in
high dudgeon, because a woman was put upon a committee? But that
Anti-Slavery Society, notwithstanding those persons who felt so
sensitive withdrew from it, has lived thirty years, and to-day it
has the honor of being credited as the cause of this war. Perhaps
if the principle which was then at stake--that a woman had a
right to be on a committee--had been waived, from the very fact
that the principle of right was overruled, that Society would
have failed. I would not yield one iota, one particle, to this
clamor for compromise. Be it understood that it is a Woman's
Rights matter; for the Woman's Rights women have the same right
to dictate to a Loyal League that the Anti-Woman's Rights women
have, and the side that is strongest will carry the resolution,
of course. But do not withdraw it. Do not say, "We will take it
away because it is objectionable."

I want the people to understand that this Loyal League--because
it is a Loyal League--must of necessity bring in Anti-Slavery and
Woman's Rights. (Applause). Is it possible that any of you
believe that there is such a being in this country to-day as a
loyal man or woman who is not anti-slavery to the backbone?
(Applause). Neither is there a loyal man or woman whose intellect
is clear enough to take in a broad, large idea, who is not to the
very core a Woman's Rights man or woman. (Applause).

MRS. HOYT: As I have said before, I am not opposed to
Anti-Slavery. I stand here an Abolitionist from the earliest
childhood, and a stronger anti-slavery woman lives not on the
soil of America. (Applause). I voted Yea on the anti-slavery
resolution, and I would vote it ten times over. But, at the same
time, in the West, which I represent, there is a very strong
objection to Woman's Rights; in fact, this Woman's Rights matter
is odious to some of us from the _manner_ in which it has been
conducted; not that we object to the philosophy--we believe in
the philosophy--but object to this matter being tacked on to a
p