re
not literary, artistic, or philanthropic, what can they do? They
are held by a cable, made up of home influence, of fashion, and
of perverted Scripture, which binds them down to an insipid
existence. Hence, they suppress all desire for a fuller, larger
life; they smile graciously upon their fetters; they profess to
be the happiest of all happy women, and thus they glide along
through the thoroughfares of society with a lying tongue and an
aching heart.

I wish these had enough vitality of soul and enough energy of
character to rise superior to the circumstances around them, and
make some approach to their own ideal. I know this is asking them
to martyrize themselves. But could they see the beauty and the
glory that will invest the future woman, when she shall have her
proper place among the children of the Father; when she shall
infuse her love, her moral perceptions, her sense of justice,
into the ethics and governments of the earth; when she shall be
united to man in a Divine harmony, and her children shall go
forth to bless all coming generations, they would regard
martyrdom but dust in the balance compared with such blessing.
And when the world shall see the moral grandeur, the sublime
position of a race redeemed by the sanctifying influences of this
Divine harmony, it will weave for them a brighter chaplet than it
has ever woven for any of its martyrs who have suffered at the
stake. (Loud applause).

* * * * *

Rev. BERIAH GREEN, of Whitesboro', N. Y., was next introduced,
and said:

It is not, I suppose, at all the design of this platform in any
way to abolish what the grammarians call "the distinction of
sex"; and when we speak of "woman's rights," we admit, in the
very language which is thus employed, that she is a "woman"--that
that is appropriately her character--that under this name she is
fitly described. Now, a comprehensive description of all the
rights which any member of the human family, whoever and whatever
and wherever he may be, is entitled to challenge and maintain, we
have in the brief and simple expression, the right to be himself;
the right to be true to the nature which he has inherited; the
right to the free and full development of the powers with which
he is endowed;