nd to me it was the real
gospel.

I remember well the strong opposition to some who advocated the
election of John C. Fremont, in 1856, among whom was Frederick
Douglass. He was then denounced as a compromiser asking for a
half loaf. He still asks for the half loaf; but others who stood
firmly then for the whole have now come down to his plane, and
desire above all things to finish up the anti-slavery work and
have the negro man out of the way, and so give the Sixteenth
Amendment the go-by, claiming manhood suffrage because it is the
order of nature that man, however ignorant, debased and brutal he
may be, shall always be first, because he always has been,
yielding the whole argument to physical force, leaving the negro
woman wholly out of the question, giving her over to the tyranny
of the husband, which is nearly, if not quite, equal to that of
the master. The anti-slavery platform still carefully guards
itself against the woman question, while on the Suffrage platform
the Fifteenth Amendment is considered essential. Miss Couzins was
the only one who put the two amendments fairly before the
Convention in Boston. After presenting the issues of the two
amendments she trenched lightly on another topic still more
offensive. She plead for the outcast woman in a most womanly way,
but it did not prove to be a popular theme; but I think she is
too true, pure, and noble not to do the same again and again.

Last evening Miss Peckham, Mrs. Churchill, and Miss Couzins
presented the suffrage question to a select audience in
Providence. Each in her own way and from her own stand-point
spoke well. I have not time to give you as elaborate a notice as
I should like to of each, but will do so after the convention
which the State Association propose holding next week, on Monday,
the 14th, in Westerly, R. I. If you have helps to send us we
shall welcome them cordially.

Yours ever truly,
P. W. DAVIS.

JULY 22, 1869.

FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT--ITS LUDICROUS SIDE.--Almost every question
has its ludicrous side. The champions of the Fifteenth Amendment
to the Constitution present an illustration. Conceding woman's