But he also argued that the case for black suffrage was more urgent than women’s suffrage. “When women, because they are women, are hunted down through the cities of New York and New Orleans; when they are dragged from their houses and hung upon lamp-posts; when their children are torn from their arms, and their brains dashed out upon the pavement; when they are objects of insult and outrage at every turn … then they will have an urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own.” Many other advocates of women’s suffrage, male and female, took a similar position.
