sumption that it would be followed by an act of injustice.

Mrs. STANTON replied she demanded the ballot for all. She asked
for reconstruction on the basis of self-government; but if we are
to have further class legislation, she thought the wisest order
of enfranchisement was to take the educated classes first. If
women are still to be represented by men, then I say let only the
highest type of manhood stand at the helm of State. But if all
men are to vote, black and white, lettered and unlettered, washed
and unwashed, the safety of the nation as well as the interests
of woman demand that we outweigh this incoming tide of
ignorance, poverty, and vice, with the virtue, wealth, and
education of the women of the country. With the black man you
have no new force in government--it is manhood still; but with
the enfranchisement of woman, you have a new and essential
element of life and power. Would Horace Greeley, Wendell
Phillips, Gerrit Smith, or Theodore Tilton be willing to stand
aside and trust their individual interests, and the whole welfare
of the nation, to the lowest strata of manhood? If not, why ask
educated women, who love their country, who desire to mould its
institutions on the highest idea of justice and equality, who
feel that their enfranchisement is of vital importance to this
end, why ask them to stand aside while 2,000,000 ignorant men are
ushered into the halls of legislation?

EDWARD M. DAVIS asked what had been done with Mr. Burleigh's
amendment.

The CHAIR--No action was taken upon it, as no one seconded it.

ABBY KELLY FOSTER said: I am in New York for medical treatment,
not for speech-making; yet I must say a few words in relation to
a remark recently made on this platform--that "The negro should
not enter the kingdom of politics before woman, because he would
be an additional weight against her enfranchisement." Were the
negro and woman in the same civil, social, and religious status
to-day, I should respond aye, with all my heart, to this
sentiment. What are the facts? You say the negro has the civil
rights bill, also the military reconstruction bill granting him
suffrage. It has been well said, "he has the title deed to
liberty, but is not yet in the possession of liberty." He is
treated as a slave to-day in t