f justice and equality. Any
work short of this is narrow and partial and fails to meet the
requirements of the hour. What is so plain to me, may, I trust,
be so to all before the lapse of many months, that all who have
worked together thus far, may still stand side by side in this
crisis of our nation's history.

JAMES MOTT said, he rejoiced that the women had seen fit to
re-organize their movement into one for equal rights to all,
that he felt the time had come to broaden our work. He felt the
highest good of the nation demanded the recognition of woman as a
citizen. We could have no true government until all the people
gave their consent to the laws that govern them.

STEPHEN S. FOSTER said, Many seemed to think that the one
question for this hour was negro suffrage. The question for every
man and woman, he thought, was the true basis of the
reconstruction of our government, not the rights of woman, or the
negro, but the rights of all men and women. Suffrage for woman
was even a more vital question than for the negro; for in giving
the ballot to the black man, we bring no new element into the
national life--simply another class of men. And for one, he could
not ask woman to go up and down the length and breadth of the
land demanding the political recognition of any class of
disfranchised citizens, while her own rights are ignored. Thank
God, the human family are so linked together, that no one man can
ever enjoy life, liberty, or happiness, so long as the humblest
being is crippled in a single right. I have demanded the freedom
of the slave the last thirty years, because he was a human being,
and I now demand suffrage for the negro because he is a human
being, and for the same reason I demand the ballot for woman.
Therefore, our demand for this hour is equal suffrage to all
disfranchised classes, for the one and the same reason--they are
all human beings.

MARTHA C. WRIGHT said: Some one had remarked that we wished to
merge ourselves into an Equal Rights Association to get rid of
the odious name of Woman's Rights. This she repudiated as
unworthy and untrue. Every good cause had been odious some time,
even the name Christian has had its odium in all nations. We
desire the change, because we feel that at this hour our highest
cla