those who, with scornful
silence laid them on the table, or with flippant
sentimentality pretended to exalt us to the clouds, above
man, the ballot and the work of life, that we consider no
position more dignified and womanly than on an even platform
with man worthy to lay the corner-stone of a republic in
equality and justice.

8. _Resolved_, That we recommend to the women of the several
States to petition their Legislatures to take the necessary
steps to so amend their constitutions as to secure the right
of suffrage to every citizen, without distinction of race,
color or sex; and especially in those States that are soon
to hold their constitutional conventions.

THEODORE TILTON said: According to the programme, it is now my
friend Mr. Beecher's turn to speak, but I observe that this
gentleman, like some of the rest of the President's friends,
occupies a back seat. [Laughter]. While, therefore, he is sitting
under the gallery, I will occupy your attention just long enough
to give that modest man a chance to muster nerve enough to make
his appearance in public. [Laughter]. First of all, I have an
account to settle with Mrs. Stanton. In her speech on taking the
chair, she said that editors are not good housekeepers--a remark
which no editor would think of retorting upon herself.
[Laughter]. But, however dingy my editorial office may sometimes
be, it is always a cheerful place when Mrs. Stanton visits it.
[Applause]. Moreover, I think the place she invited me _out of_
is no darker than this place which she invited me _into_!
[Laughter]. In fact, I think the press has generally as much
illumination as the church. [Applause].

Mrs. President, this convention is called to consider the most
beautiful and humane idea which has ever entered into American
politics--the right of woman to that ballot which belongs equally
to all citizens. What is the chief glory of our democratic
institutions? It is, that they appeal equally to the common
interest of all classes--to high and low, to rich and poor, to
white and black, to male and female. And never, until the
political equality of all these classes is fully recognized by
our laws, shall we have a government truly democratic. The
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