s of the last eight weeks in
that District. There is work yet to be done there, and so we
shall find it at every step. I am thankful with all my heart and
soul that the people have at last consented to the
enfranchisement of two millions of black men. I recognize that,
as the load is raised one inch, we must work by degrees,
accepting every inch, every hair's breadth gained toward the
right. I welcome the enfranchisement of the negro as a step
toward the enfranchisement of woman.

Miss ANTHONY said we seem to be blessed with telegrams, with
cheering news from Kansas, and read the following from S. N.
Wood:

ATCHISON, KANSAS, May 10, 1867.

"With the help of God and Lucy Stone, we shall carry Kansas!
The world moves! SAM WOOD."

These telegrams were received with much applause. The resolutions
were then put to vote, and unanimously carried, and officers were
elected for the ensuing year.[73]

SOJOURNER TRUTH was called for and said: I am glad to see that
men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and
while the water is stirring I will step into the pool. Now that
there is a great stir about colored men's getting their rights is
the time for women to step in and have theirs. I am sometimes
told that "Women aint fit to vote. Why, don't you know that a
woman had seven devils in her: and do you suppose a woman is fit
to rule the nation?" Seven devils aint no account; a man had a
legion in him. [Great laughter]. The devils didn't know where to
go; and so they asked that they might go into the swine. They
thought that was as good a place as they came out from. [Renewed
laughter]. They didn't ask to go into sheep--no, into the hog;
that was the selfishest beast; and man is so selfish that he has
got women's rights and his own too, and yet he won't give women
their rights. He keeps them all to himself. If a woman did have
seven devils, see how lovely she was when they were cast out, how
much she loved Jesus, how she followed Him. When the devils were
gone out of the man, he wanted to follow Jesus, too, but Jesus
told him to go home, and didn't seem to want to have him round.
And when the men went to look for Jesus at the sepulchre they
didn't stop l