Congress, written by Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, asking most
earnestly that the negro should be enfranchised, but just as earnestly
that the suffrage should be conferred on woman at the same time. The
leading thought was expressed in these beautiful words:

We believe that humanity is one in all those intellectual, moral
and spiritual attributes out of which grow human responsibilities.
The Scripture declaration is, "So God created man in his own image,
male and female created he them," and all divine legislation
throughout the realm of nature recognizes the perfect equality of
the two conditions; for male and female are but different
conditions. Neither color nor sex is ever discharged from obedience
to law, natural or moral, written or unwritten. The commandments
thou shalt not steal, or kill, or commit adultery, recognize no
sex; and hence we believe that all human legislation which is at
variance with the divine code, is essentially unrighteous and
unjust....

Women and colored men are loyal, liberty-loving citizens, and we
can not believe that sex or complexion should be any ground for
civil or political degradation. Against such outrage on the very
name of a republic we do and ever must protest; and is not our
protest against this tyranny of "taxation without representation"
as just as that thundered from Bunker Hill, when our Revolutionary
fathers fired the shot which shook the world?... We respectfully
and earnestly pray that, in restoring the foundations of our
nationality, all discriminations on account of sex or race may be
removed; and that our government may be republican in fact as well
as form; A GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, AND THE WHOLE PEOPLE; FOR THE
PEOPLE, AND THE WHOLE PEOPLE.

This was the last convention ever held in the old historic Church of
the Puritans. It soon passed into other hands, and where once sparkled
and scintillated flashes of repartee and gems of oratory, now glitter
and shine the magnificent jewels in the great establishment of Tiffany.

After this May Anniversary Miss Anthony prepared to go before the New
York Constitutional Convention with speeches and petitions for the
recognition of women in the new constitution. The necessary
arrangements involved an immense amount of labor, and her diary says:
"My trips from Albany to New York and back are like the flying of the
shuttle in t