e polls, is already settled. See what has been
done in Detroit: On the day of the late election, the women went
to the offices and stores of gentlemen, asking them if they had
voted. If the reply happened to be in the negative, as was often
the case, the next question was, "Will you be kind enough to take
this vote, sir, and deposit it in the ballot-box for me?" Which
was seldom, if ever, refused. And so, many a man voted for the
"Maine Law," who would not, otherwise, have voted at all. But
this was not all; many women kept themselves in the vicinity of
the polls, and when they found a man undecided, they ceased not
their entreaties until they had gained him to the Temperance
cause. More than this, two women finding an intemperate man in
the street, talked to him four hours, before they could get him
to promise to vote as they wished. Upon his doing so, they
escorted him, one on each side, to the ballot-box, saw him
deposit the vote they had given him, and then treated him to a
good supper.

Now, this is more than any Woman's Rights advocate ever thought
of proposing. Yet no one thinks of saying a word against it,
because it was done for temperance. But how much worse would it
have been for those women to have gone to the polls with a
brother or husband, instead of with this man? Or to have
deposited two votes in perhaps five minutes' time, than to have
spent four hours in soliciting some other person to give one? Why
is it worse to go to the ballot-box with our male friends, than
to the church, parties, or picnics, etc.? If a man should control
the political principles of his wife, he should also control her
religious principles.

CHARLES C. BURLEIGH: Among the resolutions which have been acted
upon and adopted by this meeting is one which affirms that for
man to attempt to fix the sphere of woman, is cool assumption. I
purpose to take that sentiment for the text of a few words of
remark this evening, for it is just there that I think the whole
controversy hinges. It is not so much what is woman's appropriate
sphere; it is not so much what she may do and what she may not
do, that we have to contend about; as whether one human being or
one class of human beings is to fix for another human being, or
another class of human beings, the pro