must protest against this desecration of the magna charta of
American liberties; and with an importunity not to be repelled,
our demand must ever be: "No compromise of human rights"--"No
admission in the Constitution of inequality of rights, or
disfranchisement on account of color or sex."

In the oft-repeated experiments of class and caste, who can
number the nations that have risen but to fall? Do not imagine
you come one line nearer the demand of justice by enfranchising
but another shade of _man_hood; for, in denying representation to
woman you still cling to the same principle on which all the
governments of the past have been wrecked. The right way, the
safe way, is so clear, the path of duty is so straight and
simple, that we who are equally interested with yourselves in the
result, conjure you to act not for the passing hour, not with
reference to transient benefits, but to do now the one grand deed
that shall mark the progress of the century--proclaim EQUAL
RIGHTS TO ALL. We press our demand for the ballot at this time in
no narrow, captious or selfish spirit; from no contempt of the
black man's claims, nor antagonism with you, who in the progress
of civilization are now the privileged order; but from the purest
patriotism, for the highest good of every citizen, for the safety
of the Republic, and as a spotless example to the nations of the
earth.

Mr. Beecher was followed by Wendell Phillips, Frances Dana Gage,
Frances Watkins Harper; the Financial Committee[64] meantime passed
through the audience for the material aid to carry forward the work.
Miss Anthony presented the following resolution, and moved its
adoption, which was seconded by Martha C. Wright:

_Whereas_, By the act of Emancipation and the Civil Rights
bill, the negro and woman now hold the same civil and
political _status_, alike needing only the ballot; and
whereas the same arguments apply equally to both classes,
proving all partial legislation fatal to republican
institutions, therefore,

_Resolved_, That the time has come for an organization that
shall demand UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE, and that hereafter we shall
be known as the "AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION."

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