n Boston last year, said: "I am willing that
the negro shall get the ballot before me." (Applause.) Woman!
why, she has 10,000 modes of grappling with her difficulties. I
believe that all the virtue of the world can take care of all the
evil. I believe that all the intelligence can take care of all
the ignorance. (Applause.) I am in favor of woman's suffrage in
order that we shall have all the virtue and vice confronted. Let
me tell you that when there were few houses in which the black
man could have put his head, this woolly head of mine found a
refuge in the house of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and if I had
been blacker than sixteen midnights, without a single star, it
would have been the same. (Applause.)

Miss ANTHONY:--The old anti-slavery school say women must stand
back and wait until the negroes shall be recognized. But we say,
if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire
people, give it to the most intelligent first. (Applause.) If
intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the
Government, let the question of woman be brought up first and
that of the negro last. (Applause.) While I was canvassing the
State with petitions and had them filled with names for our cause
to the Legislature, a man dared to say to me that the freedom of
women was all a theory and not a practical thing. (Applause.)
When Mr. Douglass mentioned the black man first and the woman
last, if he had noticed he would have seen that it was the men
that clapped and not the women. There is not the woman born who
desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be
from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who
does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person
from whom she takes it. (Applause.) Mr. Douglass talks about the
wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day
suffers, he would not exchange his sex and take the place of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (Laughter and applause.)

Mr. DOUGLASS:--I want to know if granting you the right of
suffrage will change the nature of our sexes? (Great laughter.)

Miss ANTHONY:--It will change the pecuniary position of woman; it
will place her where she can earn her own bread. (Loud applause.)
She will not then be driven to such employments on