l to men before the law. The
very moment we obtain it the work of this association is done,
and it must get out of the way. Then new associations must be
formed to take the new work that will come before us, for when
the ballot is given to woman then the great work will begin. Then
comes the tug of war. For the obtaining of the ballot by woman is
but stepping up the first round of the ladder, whose topmost
round takes hold of perfection.

OLIVER JOHNSON moved that the resolutions reported in the morning
be voted on. The motion was carried, and the resolutions having
been separately read, passed unanimously with little discussion
till the last two were reached.

Mr. KILGORE, of Philadelphia, objected to the seventh resolution,
and said, if you don't want to cover this purpose with doubt and
uncertainty, which is always an evidence of weakness, claim your
right to vote under the XIV. and XV. Amendments to the
Constitution.

Mrs. LUCY STONE replied that we all believed we had a right to
vote under the original Constitution, as well as under these
amendments, but since there was great doubt whether woman
suffrage should be reached through these, she thought it best to
seek also for a XVI. Amendment.

OLIVER JOHNSON said he didn't want to be included in Mrs.
Blackwell's remark that the Constitution gives women the ballot.
He thought it not wise to agitate this question. The right to
vote under the Constitution can be reached only under a decision
of the courts, and while waiting for that you are diverting the
public mind from the true point at issue. Slavery had been put
down in such a way that it can never be reconstructed; but if it
had been put aside by a decision of the Supreme Court, a triumph
of the Democratic party might change the character of the Supreme
Court and reinstate it. He thought it wise to have the
resolutions as they were, so that persons of all shades of
opinions may vote for them.

Dr. MARY WALKER said that the fact of women attempting to vote in
Washington had done more for woman suffrage than all the
Conventions ever held. We want a declaratory law, she said,
passed by the Congress of the United States, giving women the
right to vote. This was the only way to save an immense amount of
labor in the diffe