ty to the woman. Saxon men have the ballot,
yet look at their women, crowded into a few half-paid
employments. Look at the starving, degraded class in our 10,000
dens of infamy and vice if you would know how wisely and
generously man legislates for woman.

Rev. SAMUEL J. MAY, in reply to Mr. Remond's objection to the
resolution, said that the word "colored" was necessary to convey
the meaning, since there is no demand now made for the
enfranchisement of men, as a class. His amendment would take all
the color out of the resolution. No man in this country had made
such sacrifices for the cause of liberty as Wendell Phillips; and
if just at this moment, when the great question for which he has
struggled thirty years seemed about to be settled, he was
unwilling that anything should be added to it which might in any
way prejudice the success about to crown his efforts, it was not
to be wondered at. He was himself of the opinion, on the
contrary, that by asking for the rights of all, we should be much
more likely to obtain the rights of the colored man, than by
making that a special question. He would rejoice at the
enfranchisement of colored men, and believed that Mrs. Stanton
would, though that were all we could get at the time. Yet, if we
rest there, and allow the reconstruction to be completed, leaving
out the better half of humanity, we must expect further trouble;
and it might be a more awful and sanguinary civil war than that
which we have just experienced.

GEORGE T. DOWNING desired that the Convention should express its
opinion upon the point he had raised; and, therefore, offered the
following resolution:

_Resolved_, That while we regret that the right sentiment,
which would secure to women the ballot, is not as general as
we would have it, nevertheless we wish it distinctly
understood that we rejoice at the increasing sentiment which
favors the enfranchisement of the colored man.

Mr. DOWNING understood Mrs. Stanton to refuse to rejoice at a
_part_ of the good results to be accomplished, if she could not
achieve the whole, and he wished to ask if she was unwilling the
colored man should have the vote until the women could have it
also? He said we had no right to refuse an act of justice upon
the as