Women, you must understand, still had decades to go before their suffrage movement succeeded. The Civil War only brought us a little closer to a free and more equal America. I hear some of my audience say, it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. Would you agree more, and denounce less, would you persuade more and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed. That point is conceded already.
Nobody doubts it.
The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being. The manhood of the slave is conceded. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.