t. (Applause.)

Mr. REMOND said: In an hour like this I repudiate the idea of
expediency. All I ask for myself I claim for my wife and sister.
Let our action be based upon the rock of everlasting principle.
No class of citizens in this country can be deprived of the
ballot without injuring every other class. I see how equality of
suffrage in the State of New York is necessary to maintain
emancipation in South Carolina. Do not moral principles, like
water, seek a common level? Slavery in the Southern States
crushed the right of free speech in Massachusetts and made slaves
of Saxon men and women, just as the $250 qualification in the
Constitution of this State degrades and enslaves black men all
over the Union.

Mr. PILLSBURY protested against the use of the few last moments
of this meeting in these discussions. We should be now only "a
committee of ways and means," and future work should be the
business in hand. Mr. Downing presented an unnecessary issue.
Government will never ask us which should enter into citizenship
first, the woman or the colored man, or whether we prefer one to
the other. Indeed government has given the colored man the ballot
already. We are demanding suffrage equally, not unequally. Mrs.
Stanton's private opinion, be it what it may, has nothing to do
with the general question. The white voters are mostly opposed to
woman's suffrage. So will the colored men be, probably; at least
so she believes, as Mrs. Mott also suggested very strongly, and a
million or more of them added to the present opposition and
indifference, are not a slight consideration. Mrs. Stanton does
not believe in loving her neighbor _better_ than herself. Justice
to one class does not mean injustice to another. Woman has as
good a right to the ballot as the black man--no better. Were I a
colored man, and had reason to believe that should woman obtain
her rights she would use them to the prejudice of mine, how could
I labor very zealously in her behalf? It should be enough for Mr.
Downing and all who stand with him that Mrs. Stanton does not
demand one thing for herself as to rights, or time of obtaining
them, which she does not cheerfully, earnestly demand for all
others, regardless of color or sex.

Miss ANTHONY read the following telegram from L