he audience that when he says what the Ku-Kluxes did all over
the South, the Ku-Kluxes here in the North in the shape of men,
take away the children from the mother, and separate them as
completely as if done on the block of the auctioneer. Over in New
Jersey they have a law which says that _any_ father--he might be
the most brutal man that ever existed--_any_ father, it says,
whether he be under age or not, may by his last will and
testament dispose of the custody of his child, born or to be
born, and that such disposition shall be good against all
persons, and that the mother may not recover her child; and that
law modified in form exists over every State in the Union except
in Kansas. Woman has an ocean of wrongs too deep for any plummet,
and the negro, too, has an ocean of wrongs that can not be
fathomed. There are two great oceans; in the one is the black
man, and in the other is the woman. But I thank God for that XV.
Amendment, and hope that it will be adopted in every State. I
will be thankful in my soul if _any_ body can get out of the
terrible pit. But I believe that the safety of the government
would be more promoted by the admission of woman as an element of
restoration and harmony than the negro. I believe that the
influence of woman will save the country before every other
power. (Applause.) I see the signs of the times pointing to this
consummation, and I believe that in some parts of the country
women will vote for the President of these United States in 1872.
(Applause.)

At the opening of the evening session Henry B. Blackwell
presented a series of resolutions.[120] Antoinette Brown
Blackwell spoke, and was followed by Olive Logan.

Miss LOGAN said:--I stand here to-night full of faith, inborn
faith, in the rights of woman to advance boldly in all ennobling
paths.... In my former sphere of life, the equality of woman was
fully recognized so far as the kind of labor and the amount of
reward for her labor are concerned. As an actress, there was no
position in which I was not fully welcomed if I possessed the
ability and industry to reach it. If I could become a Ristori, my
earnings would be as great as hers, and if I was a man and could
become a Kean, a Macready, or a Booth, the same reward would be
obtained. If I reach