must raise your voice for equal rights. (Applause.)
I have seen the effect of the suffrage. In the District of
Columbia, during the election, I saw men who had been called
doughfaces walk up to the black man and profess to be so much
more Anti-Slavery than the best Anti-Slavery men, that I have got
the idea that it will not be five years before the northern
Democrat will be swearing to the black men that he has negro
blood in his veins: (Laughter.) ...

I come upon this platform to-night to identify myself with this
new effort. I hope you may prosper; and so far as a dollar of
mine, or my voice may go, you shall have it. I confess candidly
that it is logic that drives me here, in spite of my prejudices.
It is the discourses of Mrs. Stanton, of Mrs. Mott, of others
that have spoken and written; and it is coming in contact with
strong womanly mind. If we accept the convictions that come to
us, we shall be all right; and I will do as the lady who has just
spoken said that she would do--not be governed by mere party, but
by the moral bearings of the questions that arise, and vote upon
the side of God and justice. (Applause.)

FRANCES D. GAGE said: _Mrs. President_--It seems to be my fate to
come in at the eleventh hour. We have been talking about the
right to the ballot. Why do we want it? What does it confer? We
closed our argument at three o'clock to-day by a discussion
whether the women of this country and the colored men of this
country wanted the ballot. I said it was a libel on woman to say
she did not want it; and I repeat that assertion.... Last evening
I attended the meeting of the National Temperance Association at
Cooper Institute. A great audience was assembled there to listen
to the arguments against the most gigantic evil that now pervades
the American Republic. Men took the position that only a
prohibitory law could put an end to the great evil of
intemperance. New York has its two hundred millions of invested
capital to sell death and destruction to the men of this country
who are weak enough to purchase. There are eight thousand
licensed liquor establishments in this city, to drag down
humanity. It was asserted there by Wendell Phillips that
intemperance had its root in our Saxon blood, that demanded a
stimulus; and he arg