,
accompanied her husband to California. A brain-fever laid him
low. In the presence of mutiny and delirium, she took his vacant
post, preserved order, and carried her cargo safe to its destined
port. Looking in the face of Mr. Greeley, Miss Fuller said: "Lo!
my dear Horace, it is done; now say, what shall woman: do next?"
[Cheers].

Mrs. CAROLINE H. DALL then dismissed the assembly.[52]

In _The Liberator_ of July 6, 1860, we find a brief mention of what
was called Mrs. Dall's "Drawing-room" Convention, in which it was
proposed to present the artistic and aesthetic view of the question.
The meeting was held June 1st, in the Melodeon. Mrs. Caroline M.
Severance presided. Mrs. Dall, Rev. Samuel J. May, R. J. Hinton, Moses
(Harriet Tubman), James Freeman Clarke, Dr. Mercy B. Jackson,
Elizabeth M. Powell, and Wendell Phillips took part in the
discussions.

We close our chapter on Massachusetts, with a few extracts from a
sermon by Theodore Parker, to show his position on the most momentous
question of his day and generation. In March, 1853, he gave two
discourses in Music Hall, Boston, one on the domestic, and one on the
public function of woman, in which he fully expressed himself on every
phase of the question.

THEODORE PARKER--THE PUBLIC FUNCTION OF WOMAN.

If woman is a human being, first, she has the Nature of a human
being; next, she has the Right of a human being; third, she has
the Duty of a human being. The Nature is the capacity to possess,
to use, to develop, and to enjoy every human faculty; the Right
is the right to enjoy, develop, and use every human faculty; and
the Duty is to make use of the Right, and make her human nature,
human history. She is here to develop her human nature, enjoy her
human rights, perform her human duty. Womankind is to do this for
herself, as much as mankind for himself. A woman has the same
human nature that a man has; the same human rights, to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the same human duties; and
they are as inalienable in a woman as in a man.

Each man has the natural right to the normal development of his
nature, so far as it is general-human, neither man nor woman, but
human. Each woman has the natural right to the normal development
of her nature, so far as it is general-human, neither woman nor
man. But each man has