ents showing how black men whip
and abuse their wives in the South. One of her sister's servants
whipped his wife every Sunday regularly. [Laughter.] She thought
that sort of men should not have the making of the laws for the
government of the women throughout the land. [Applause.]

Mr. DOUGLASS said that all disinterested spectators would concede
that this Equal Rights meeting had been pre-eminently a Woman's
Rights meeting. [Applause.] They had just heard an argument with
which he could not agree--that the suffrage to the black men
should be postponed to that of the women. I do not believe the
story that the slaves who are enfranchised become the worst of
tyrants. [A voice, "Neither do I." Applause.] I know how this
theory came about. When a slave was made a driver, he made
himself more officious than the white driver, so that his master
might not suspect that he was favoring those under him. But we do
not intend to have any master over us. [Applause.]

THE PRESIDENT, Mrs. Stanton, argued that not another man should
be enfranchised until enough women are admitted to the polls to
outweigh those already there. [Applause.] She did not believe in
allowing ignorant negroes and foreigners to make laws for her to
obey. [Applause.]

Mrs. HARPER (colored) asked Mr. Blackwell to read the fifth
resolution of the series he submitted, and contended that that
covered the whole ground of the resolutions of Mr. Douglass. When
it was a question of race, she let the lesser question of sex go.
But the white women all go for sex, letting race occupy a minor
position. She liked the idea of working women, but she would
like to know if it was broad enough to take colored women?

Miss ANTHONY and several others: Yes, yes.

Mrs. HARPER said that when she was at Boston there were sixty
women who left work because one colored woman went to gain a
livelihood in their midst. [Applause] If the nation could only
handle one question, she would not have the black women put a
single straw in the way, if only the men of the race could obtain
what they wanted. [Great applause.]

Mr. C. C. BURLEIGH attempted to speak, but was received with some
disapprobation by the audience, and confusion ensued.

Miss ANTHONY protested against the XVth Amendment because it
w