was one of the seventy-two women who tried to vote) said men were
like the stingy boy at school with a cake. "Now," said he, "all
you that don't ask for it don't want it, and all you that do ask
for it sha'n't have it."

REV. OLYMPIA BROWN, pastor of the Universalist church in
Bridgeport, Conn., gave her views on the rights of women under
the constitution, and believed that they were entitled to the
ballot as an inalienable right. In this country, under existing
rulings of the courts as to the meaning of the constitution, no
one appeared likely to enjoy the ballot for all time except the
colored men, unless the clause, "previous condition of
servitude," as a congressman expressed it, referred to widows.
That being true, the constitution paid a premium only on colored
men, and widows. If the constitution did not guarantee suffrage,
and congress did not bestow it, then the republic was of no
account and its boast devoid of significance and meaning. Its
life had been in vain--dead to the interests for which it was
created. She wanted congress to pass a sixteenth amendment,
declaring all its citizens enfranchised, or a declaratory act
setting forth that the constitution already guaranteed to them
that right.

Hon. FREDERICK DOUGLASS said he was not quite in accord with all
the sentiments that had been uttered during the afternoon, yet he
was willing that the largest latitude should be taken by the
advocates of the cause. He was not afraid that at some distant
period the blacks of the South would rise and disfranchise the
whites. While he was not willing to be addressed as the ignorant,
besotted creature that the negro is sometimes called, he was
willing to be a part of the bridge over which women should march
to the full enjoyment of their rights.

Miss PHOEBE COUZINS of St. Louis reviewed in an able manner the
decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Virginia L. Minor.

Mrs. DEVEREUX BLAKE spoke on the rights and duties of
citizenship. She cited a number of authorities, including a
recent decision of the Supreme Court, to prove that women are
citizens, although deprived of the privileges of citizenship.
Taking up the three duties of citizenship--paying taxes, serving
on jury, and military service--she said woman had done her share