m in her system.

Mrs. LAWRENCE of Massachusetts, said the country is in danger,
and like other republics, unless taken care of, will perish by
its own vices. She said twelve hundred thousand men and women of
this country now stand with nothing to do, because their
legislators of wealth were working not for the many, but the few,
drunkenness and vice being superinduced by such a state of
things. She insisted that women were to blame for much of the
evil of the world--for bringing into life children who grow up in
vice from their inborn tendencies.

Dr. CAROLINE B. WINSLOW of Washington, referred to the speech of
Mrs. Lawrence, saying she hoped God would bless her for having
the courage to speak as she did. There is no greater reform than
for man and woman to be true to the marital relations.

BELVA A. LOCKWOOD said the only way for women to get their rights
is to take them. If necessary let there be a domestic
insurrection. Let young women refuse to marry, and married women
refuse to sew on buttons, cook, and rock the cradle until their
liege-lords acknowledge the rights they are entitled to. There
were more ways than one to conquer a man; and women, like the
strikers in the railroad riots, should carry their demands all
along the line. She dwelt at length upon the refusal of the
courts in allowing Lavinia Dundore to become a constable, and
asked why she should not be appointed.

The Rev. OLYMPIA BROWN said that if they wanted wisdom and
prosperity in the nation, health and happiness in the home, they
must give woman the power to purify her surroundings; the right
to make the outside world fit for her children to live in. Who
are more interested than mothers in the sanitary condition of our
schools and streets, and in the moral atmosphere of our towns and
cities?

Marshal FREDERICK DOUGLASS said his reluctance to come forward
was not due to any lack of interest in the subject under
discussion. For thirty years he had believed in human rights to
all men and women. Nothing that has ever been proposed involved
such vital interests as the subject which now invites attention.
When the negro was freed the question was asked if he was capable
of voting intelligently. It was answered in this way: that if a
sober negro knows as much as