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“As to the right of the ballot, it Is a question that must be decided by woman herself. When she can realize tho importance of exercising the right, and demands it with that earnestness that is undeniable, it will be granted her, for there can be no valid argument made against the abstract right of woman to the suffrage.”She concluded as follows:“I appeal to those that profess to be Christians that they will give their heart and hand to this reform. It is a well-known fact that the largerSart of the Christian church, in all of its ranohes, Is composed of women, I believe, by giving the ballot to woman, it will arouse up in her those latent powers, and bring into activity those noble attributes, such as can only be found in the inner shrine of woman’s soul. With me, as with many other workers in our land, this favor toward the cause of woman’s suffrage was a thing of growth like advancement in any moral cause.“As Lucy Larcom says :“ ‘Step by step we must go Up the holy mountain ;Drop by drop witldu us flow Life's immortal fountain.’“I ask: Has God created woman man’s inferior? If so, Ho has been false to His power in creating an inferior being for a superior work; and if woman’s responsibilities are equal to that of man’s, I claim that God has endowed her with equal power for the discharge of those duties. [Applause.] We hold ourselves created to sustain relations as intelligent beings, and that we are endowed with capabilities equal to the discharge of duties involved in those relations. How shall wo develop those powers as individuate? as mothers? We must first acquire a knowledge of the laws of our physical ana mental organism, for these are tno material upon, and the instrument by which we Work, and to do our work well we must be able to apply both.”At the oonclusiou of Mrs. Dootress Morrell’s address, Professor A. Curtis addressed the meeting, commencing upon the topic the assemblage were there to bear disoussed, but he gradually brought up other subjects, and ended in a lecture upon the health of the human generation.After his irrelevant remarks, a number of ladies joined the association, after which amotion was made, and unanimously adopted, that meetings of the association be held at the same place every alternate Wednesday, afternoons and evenings.The meeting then adjourned to meet again next Wednesday evening, at the same place.
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Cincinnati Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Feb 25, 1869
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