e old hymns, and lived the old
life of the United States. I asked how this thing was, and they
answered that among those that went over so long ago were a few
from Chester County, Pennsylvania, who were brought up among the
Quakers, and had learned to read. Wherever a mother had learned
to read, she had educated all her children so that they could
read; but wherever there was a mother that could not read, that
family had lapsed off from the old customs of the past....

A friend of mine, writing from Charleston the other day, just
after the ballot went down there, says that he was told by a
colored man, "I met my old master, and he bowed so low to me I
didn't hardly know which was the negro and which was the white
man." When we hold the ballot, we shall stand just there. Men
will forget to tell us that politics are degrading. They will bow
low, and actually respect the women to whom they now talk
platitudes, and silly flatteries; sparkling eyes, rosy cheeks,
pearly teeth, ruby lips, the soft and delicate hands of
refinement and beauty, will not be the burden of their song; but
the strength, the power, the energy, the force, the intellect,
and the nerve, which the womanhood of this country will bring to
bear, and which will infuse itself through all the ranks of
society, must make all its men and women wiser and better.
[Applause].

The Association then adjourned until Friday morning, 10-1/2 o'clock.

SECOND DAY.

FRIDAY MORNING, _May 10, 1867_.

The meeting was called to order by the President, and the Secretary
read some additional resolutions.[72]

CHARLES L. REMOND objected to the last of the resolution, and
desired that the word "colored" might be stricken out. It might
be that colored men would obtain their rights before women; but
if so, he was confident they would heartily acquiesce in
admitting women also to the right of suffrage.

The PRESIDENT (Mrs. Mott) said that woman had a right to be a
little jealous of the addition of so large a number of men to the
voting class, for the colored men would naturally throw all their
strength upon the side of those opposed to woman's
enfranchisement.

GEORGE T. DOWNING wished to know whether he had rightly
understood that Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Mott were opposed