lf to be "no woman's rights, woman," has accepted a position
as inspector of logs and lumber. (Laughter). Well, I have no
objection to her having that avocation, if she have a taste and
capacity for it--far from it. But she has accepted still more,
and I doubt not with a great deal more zest and satisfaction--the
five hundred dollars salary; and I hope she will enjoy it. Then,
having accepted both the office and the salary, she folds her
arms, and says: "I am none of your strong-minded women; I don't
go for woman's rights." Well, she is still welcome to it. I have
not the slightest objection that those who proclaim themselves
not strong-minded, should still reap the benefit of a strong mind
(applause and laughter); it is for them we work. So there are
some ladies who think a great deal can be done in the Legislature
without petitions, without conventions, without lectures, without
public claim, in fact, without anything, but a little lobbying.
Well, if they have a, taste for it, they are welcome to engage in
it; I have not the slightest objection. Yes, I have. I, as a
woman, being conscious of the evil that is done by these lobby
loafers in our Legislature and in the halls of Congress, object
to it. (Loud cheers). I will wait five years longer to have a
right given to me legitimately, from a sense of justice, rather
than buy it in an underhand way by lobbying. Whatever my
sentiments may be, good, bad, or indifferent, I express them, and
they are known. Nevertheless, if any desire it, let them do that
work. But what has induced them, what has enabled them, to do
that work? The Woman's Rights movement, although they are afraid
or ashamed even of the name "woman's rights."

You have been told, and much more might be said on the subject,
that already the Woman's Rights platform has upon it lawyers,
ministers, and statesmen--men who are among the highest in the
nation. I need not mention Wm. Lloyd Garrison, or Wendell
Phillips; but there are others, those even who are afraid of the
name of reformer, who have stood upon our platform. Brady! Who
would ever have expected it? Chapin! Beecher! Think of it for a
moment! A minister advocating the rights of woman, even her right
at the ballot-box! What has done it? Our agitation has purified
the atmosphere