emselves, and there would be very little need of the
instrumentality of a political organization. If women understood
that it was not only their right, but their duty, to educate
themselves to be citizens of the State, we should have, instead
of the trifling topics which now occupy their attention in our
domestic circles, the consideration of great questions; and
doubtless their finer perceptions often would help to settle
great questions aright; and they who should go forth from that
family circle into the various relations of life, would go
prepared to advocate the right, to illustrate the truth, and at
the ballot-box to give their votes for the true and the right. It
is my first conviction respecting the future well-being of our
country, that it is to be measured exactly by our treatment of
the colored man. My second conviction is that the well-being of
our country never will be effectually provided for until the
better half of humanity is educated and instructed, and required
to take part in the enactment of the laws and in their
administration.

Mrs. Mott then introduced the venerable Sojourner Truth, who was
greeted with loud cheers, after which she said:

My friends, I am rejoiced that you are glad, but I don't know how
you will feel when I get through. I come from another field--the
country of the slave. They have got their liberty--so much good
luck to have slavery partly destroyed; not entirely. I want it
root and branch destroyed. Then we will all be free indeed. I
feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just
as much as a man, I have a right to have just as much as a man.
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but
not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their
rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men
will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it
was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are
stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a
great while to get it going again. White women are a great deal
smarter, and know more than colored women, while colored women do
not know scarcely anything. They go out washing, which is about
as high as a colored woman gets, and their men go about idle,
strutting up an