Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-20

vate both classes. IL you want TO keep a
man out Of the mud, black his boots.
Laughter and applause. ! like women
better for their 6nery and furbeloes.
want them TO dress themselves hand
somely. / would not have her love
Cesar less, but love Rome more. IL she
had the ballot she would dress just as
we'll and think more. Applause and
laughter.
A voice-How about the trailss
Fred.-I think the trail might be dis.
pensed with; but it may be the old story
Of the convention Of the animals-the
rabbit without any tail wanted the Others
to cut off theirs too. [Great laughter.
| want to harmonize this thing. Laugh
ter. Our revolutionary friends need ia
have somebody to tell them when they
are little out of the way, to be a little
revolutionary toward them Laughter
This Train has led some of them astray.
They need little dark ballast to steady
the ship a little. Laughter / know
we'll the power of it's brain and the hear
Of the lady in our Presidential chair, and
will not be driven away from her by any
such comet as George Francis Train
Laughter
As Mr.. Douglass closed, he turned to
take his seat, saying: II hope Olympus
will spare me, and just at this moment
amid general merriment, Olympia came
forward to reply.
Olympia-I am here, sir. If the Re-
publican party is so true, so devoted tc
the negro cause, who defeated it in Kan
sas, where the Democratic party never
had any power2
Fred.-George Francis Train. [Great
applause.
Olympia-I have never spoken a syl
liable against the negro cause in my life
/ am not here as a special advocate O
George Francis Train. wish to know
if the Republican party is such partic'
ular friend of the negro, how is it tina
in Minnesota, without George Franci,
Train, they voted the negro down
Great applause.
Fred.-If you want to know, | will tel
you.
Olympia-The Republican party has
not been true to its principles You ash
man "Are you in favor of negro suf-
rage p mo" Then why are you 6
Republican, OIL belong to the Re
publican party. [Laughter.] There
may be good men in it-there is old Ben
Wade, for one. Applause.
= A Voice-Turn to the audience, sc
that they can hear you.
Olympia-I am talking to Mr.. Doug
lass. The Republican party is not true
to its professions; the negro is not en-
franchised, and Andrew johnson is no
impeached.
A Voice-Glad Of it.
Another Voice-Thank Heaven.
Third voice-But he will not be
[Great confusion and mingled applause
and Kisses.
Olympia continued at some length tC
arraign the Republican party for it,
sham philanthropy.
Fred. Douglass, in reply, claimed thai
only small fraction of the Republican
party failed to vote in favor of the negro
in Minnesota; that lao, 900 Republicans
veted for equal rights in Ohio; and that
in Connecticut the Republican party had
voted largely for negro suffrage-that
the Republican party proposed to give
the ballot to the negro in ten States.
Miss Anthony-Oh, yes; they make
large promises.
Fred. said in conclusion that the Re-
publican party stood by the negro, while
on the other side we're James Brooks
John Morrissey, and he would not say
the Rev. Olympia Brown.
Another song and another puff for the
Hutchinsons.
Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell took the
floor and hauled Mr.. Douglass over the
Goals for his statement that woman't
rights women had suffered nothing for
the cause, no odium, and ne nothing
She declared that there was not woman
on the platform who had not been de.
nounced as an unsexed virago, scorned
by her own sex and slandered by the
other She recited the long list of legal
disabilities under which woman labors a U
over the country, saying that nearly al!
over the Union the only woman who could
claim the ownership of her own child wat
the mother of bastard. (Sensation.
She recounted the instances of legal
oppressors of women in all the States,
and said that if Mr.. Douglass knew IL
person this tyranny of slavery, she knew
the tyranny over women in the obstacles
which she had met in obtaining an edu.
cation. She pictured the contumely and
odium which are hesped upon women in
their efforts 10 obtain an entrance into
the professions, as an answer to the cal
upon women in Mr.. Croly's articles in
the Public Spirit, calling upon wom.r
to cease begging for their rights and take
them. In fact, she talked so long ant
so earHestly that most Of the audience
left, as when she concluded it was II p. m
The anti-Train party was thus hoisted
with its own petard, and completely ex-
tinguished with the gas.