e in negro suffrage,
it would be no reason for excluding them. We should no more
exclude a person from our platform for disbelieving negro
suffrage than a person should be excluded from the anti-slavery
platform for disbelieving woman suffrage. But I know that Miss
Anthony and Mrs. Stanton believe in the right of the negro to
vote. We are united on that point. There is no question of
principle between us.

The vote on the report of the Committee on Organization was now
taken, and adopted by a large majority.

Mr. DOUGLASS:--I came here more as a listener than to speak, and
I have listened with a great deal of pleasure to the eloquent
address of the Rev. Mr. Frothingham and the splendid address of
the President. There is no name greater than that of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton in the matter of woman's rights and equal rights,
but my sentiments are tinged a little against _The Revolution_.
There was in the address to which I allude the employment of
certain names, such as "Sambo," and the gardener, and the
bootblack, and the daughters of Jefferson and Washington, and all
the rest that I can not coincide with. I have asked what
difference there is between the daughters of Jefferson and
Washington and other daughters. (Laughter.) I must say that I do
not see how any one can pretend that there is the same urgency in
giving the ballot to woman as to the negro. With us, the matter
is a question of life and death, at least, in fifteen States of
the Union. When women, because they are women, are hunted down
through the cities of New York and New Orleans; when they are
dragged from their houses and hung upon lamp-posts; when their
children are torn from their arms, and their brains dashed out
upon the pavement; when they are objects of insult and outrage at
every turn; when they are in danger of having their homes burnt
down over their heads; when their children are not allowed to
enter schools; then they will have an urgency to obtain the
ballot equal to our own. (Great applause.)

A VOICE:--Is that not all true about black women?

Mr. DOUGLASS:--Yes, yes, yes; it is true of the black woman, but
not because she is a woman, but because she is black. (Applause.)
Julia Ward Howe at the conclusion of her great speech delivered
at the convention i