as well as negroes.

LUCY STONE controverted Mr. Douglass' statement that women were
not persecuted for endeavoring to obtain their rights, and
depicted in glowing colors the wrongs of women and the inadequacy
of the laws to redress them. Mrs. Stone also charged the
Republican party as false to principle unless it protected women
as well as colored men in the exercise of their right to vote.

_The Tribune_ said the resolutions adopted declare that suffrage
is an inalienable right without qualification of sex or race;
that our State and National Governments are anti-Republican in
form, and anti-Democratic in fact; that the only way to decide
whether women want to vote is to give them an opportunity of
doing so; that the Republicans are bound to extend the
application of manhood suffrage to women; that Reconstruction
will fail to secure peace, unless it gives women the right to
vote; they invite the National Conventions of both parties to put
a woman suffrage plank in their platforms; petition[107] Congress
to extend suffrage to the women of the District of Columbia, and
to propose a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting political
distinctions on account of sex; assert that the laws depriving
married women of the equal custody of their children and of the
control of their property, are a disgrace to civilization; and
thank the men of Kansas who voted for Woman Suffrage.

FOOTNOTES:

[92] Following this hearing, Mr. Folger presented a resolution in the
Senate for the women of the State to vote for delegates to the
Constitutional Convention, and nine members voted in its favor.

[93] The _Albany Evening Journal_ of January 24th, says: "Mrs. Stanton
had a large audience to hear her argument in favor of so amending the
Constitution as to permit women and colored men to vote and hold
office. She said all that could be said and said it well in support of
her position, but it is still a problem whether the Judiciary
Committee were convinced. Like most men of old-fashioned notions, they
are slow to believe that women would be elevated, either in
usefulness, or dignity, by being transferred from the drawing room and
the nursery to the ballot-box and the forum!!

[94] Horace Greeley, Westchester Co., Leslie W. Russel, Lawrence Co.,
William Cassidy, Albany Co., William H. Merrill, Wyoming Co., George
Williams, O