| DEBATE |
| vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by |
| shall deem it necessary for the public good, that the amendment |
| just government is founded upon the consent of the governed," then |
| vote. Those qualifications affect either the body or the mind or both. |
| she is not liable to fight, for she is so liable, and the freest |
| required at all? |
| force which so largely has been the means by which the masses of men |
| therefore, quite incorrect to speak of the state as an aggregate |
| intelligence, which are common to all. The aged and the physically |
| of women to vote would disfranchise nearly this whole body. |
| inconveniences, to mold and direct the discordant thought and action |
| he logically argued that women also possessed the inherent right to |
| incomplete individual by itself. The life principle of each must |
| they fall whenever assailed. |
| other sources there are 15,000,000 women of voting age in this country |
| It does seem probable that on these interesting occasions if the |
| matter of right, of moral right, to the franchise does not depend |
| is unworthy of notice at all unless we are to push it to its logical |
| there is no time in which woman can vote. |
| of public schools and as members of school boards. In Louisiana |
| this great Republic, this right of municipal suffrage is already |
| being successful was made in the State of Vermont. The suffrage was |
| the colored man to the States. No other amendment touching the general |
| extensive agitation of the question of woman suffrage, and the |
| States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States: |
| case. |
| becomes their duty each in his turn to take charge of and rear a |
| are responsible for the government, at times and places to be fixed by |
| children are dependent upon the mother as they are not upon any other |
| assigned to her by the laws of nature and the Divine inspiration, |
| elevating, and ennobling duties of wife, mother, Christian, and |
| her influence is in favor of morality, justice, and fair dealing, all |
| described should yield, contrary to their inclinations and wishes, to |
| had but little opportunity to educate themselves or to be educated, |
| price of labor is and must continue to be governed by the law of |
| protection against the tyranny of bad husbands. This is also delusive. |
| is distasteful to her husband. On the other hand, if she unites with |
| encourage the increase of marriages rather than of celibacy. If the |
| certain distinct powers and properties belong. The lines of |
| by means of the votes of men; but the deeper and more vital needs of |
| refinement and elevation of character, the ideal woman stands a step |
| Fact, Thrown Out Such Natural Off Shoots As Gave Grace And Glory To |
| marry a great proportion are restless in marriage bonds or seek |
| the universe become null. |
| devolve upon her onerous duties which the Creator never intended that |
| Union for their ratification an additional article as an amendment to |
| Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. BLAIR], in the proposition submitted |
| hamlet in the land with great ability. No question in this country has |
| administered them; but that the provisions conferring or regulating |
| history. It is full of hope for the women of this country and |
| government, the fundamental law of the State will be made by all |
| Federal Constitution is amended or not. The first convention demanding |
| enfranchised in Washington Territory nature has continued in her |
| spectacle to take a mother away from her nursing infant and lock her |
| back of these mere regulations for the protection of property and the |
| Wyoming Territory! Washington Territory! Where are their large cities? |
| of woman with the cold, dry logic of business. What man can, without |
| were given to the women of the United States? |
| sneered at and ridiculed as afraid to meet women in the contests for |
| Rev. Judson Smith. |
| well known in the United States, and well known to the Senators from |
| Voting is simply a mathematical test of strength. Uncivilized |
| between the sexes. What is good in a community for men, is good |
| number of people determine to drink liquor; secondly, because |
| privilege, as is the fact, what proportion of women would exercise |
| affiliate themselves with men; because women will differ on |
| and what public measures shall prevail in the commonwealth. Now, this |
| arena; and this lady has been in the political arena for the last |
| bayonets; nobody who believes that government is a matter of mere |
| political campaign in Massachusetts and that her unaided and single |
| am not able to characterize as a resident of any State, although I |
| horrible intoxication of the game itself drives them on further and |
| matter of speculation. What women have done in times of turbulence and |
| according to the story, and woe had come of it, what was the |
| husband's the dominion. Therefore shall you bring your aspiration |
| quietly and invisibly originate and support the entire onward |
| Is Given Where The Results Of Character, And Conscience, And |
| and influence in mere outsides. Outsides of fashion and place, |
| Voice For The Law, And The Arm To Enforce Law What Do You Want |
| Up Before His Manhood Is Made Up; While It Is In The Making. That |
| I Show You," He Goes On, "a Yet More Excellent Way." Charity Not |
| Heaven never called all the women at once; but when the king was |
| consecration, power, and honor set forth and kept in mind. |
| Think, simply, of election day for women. |
| How will it be when Norah, and Maggie, and Katie have not only |
| will dispute and none can take from her. We are not where woman |
| one woman is needed and doing really brave, true work, there are |
| say, "No; I will not blaze at Newport, or run through Europe |
| Do you say, if good women refused these things and tried for a |
| publicity, and weariness. There used to be women's shops; choice |
| measuring and disputation of party plans and issues, and all the |
| and the outside world and issue will take form and heed for |
| Be Heard In The Discussion Of Such A Proposed Amendment Whether They |
| respectable number of people to be heard on this issue, I desire |
| that department of the Women's Christian Temperance Union which has |
| fill those seats. |
| this subject, but I can not ask the attention of the Senate to them, |
| interest and favorable sentiment in Kansas on this question. These |
| question of the intellect of woman. The real objection seems to me |
| agitation of this question lies the fate of republican government, and |
| again for the same purpose. I do not propose to speak now, but to |
| do with the rights of the cause, ought to be met, the association |
| particular thing, although we know that better things will come |
| the Congress that then occupied this Capitol, that measure would |
| property rights, and as respects industrial rights, the women of |
| favors? Neither one can do without the other: neither can dispense |
| the gentlemen from the South, who, I hope, do not forget that they |
| anticipate will attend upon that action. |
| I, As An American Born Woman, To Day Enter My Protest At Being |
| shall follow their sons not only to the age of majority that only |
| and we, as thinking, industrious, active American women, object to |
| Waifs Of Society. There Are Hundreds Of Moral Questions To Day |
| with you for your consideration. |
| you not in the magnanimity of noble purposes rise to meet the |
| Legislature has in two successive sessions agreed upon a |
| supreme judge for the district of the Pacific, all of these men, |
| Of The Movement? Who Among You Will Be Our Standard Bearer? Who |
| all the evil, and all the intelligence can take care of all the |
| Do these women know that in most States in the Union the shameful |
| Mother His Equal When She Fitted Her To Hold The Sacred Position |
| Howell, the president of the Albany, N.Y., State society. |
| Often Done In Our State Of New York, And When I Did One Third More |
| Gentlemen, you see before you this great convention of women from |
| Nation In Hospitals And Upon The Battle Field, She Is Met At The |
| the feminine; and it means also, of course, a preponderance of the |
| to the land on the lines of the great rivers of the West, and |
| bedroom, perhaps, and although needing medical care and needing |
| claim that the mother thought, the woman element needed, is |
| Miss ANTHONY. I wish I could state the avocations and professions |
| Miss ANTHONY. Of course the negro was not asked to go begging |
| best men of the State, and I think Senator PALMER will agree with |
| Senate speedily. I know you are ready to make a favorable one. |
| The Committee On The Judiciary, United States Senate, Friday, |
| and it is what we are rapidly learning: |
| years. When I went before our Legislature and found that 100 of |
| difference in the sexes, and it is because of that very |
| form of government the ballot is our right; it is just and proper. |
| parties to let people see that I had common sense. [Laughter.] |
| she from the West. In this delegation, and in the convention which |
| Dr. Wallace was ousted for political purposes. It almost broke the |
| the petition on that account. I took the paper around myself. |
| use all the moral power of the Government we certainly can not |
| of the fathers who sang back to England that they would not |
| woman has a right to make a will. In our State she can hold bonds |
| and daughters in. |
| them were mean enough for anything if they did not mean to do |
| the association which sent me here to report that the |
| building, except the engineer who controls the fire department. |
| of the ballot. By presenting long petitions to the Legislature |
| were the people of the nation upon whom the Constitution conferred |
| election, who were simple enough to read the Constitution and |
| been remitted. I state this merely to show the need of woman to |
| not taxed are not counted in the basis of representation, and are |
| yet because he was a citizen of the State, but simply because he |
| to protect them, neither husband, father, brother, son, with no |
| balance of political power. The party that puts a plank in its |
| Every Drunkard, Every Pauper Even From The Poor House, And Every |
| city of Rochester had held the power of the ballot in their hands |
| Look After Free Trade Or Tariff, And The Women Will Do The Home |
| Government, is a national right. |
| in Kansas in 1867, in Michigan in 1874, in Colorado in 1877, and |
| population of Colorado is made up of that class of people. I was |
| suffrage." I said, "I do not know much about the Denver negroes, |
| horses, shining like glass on a sunny morning, every one of them |
| to Washington and beg at the feet of John Morrissey that he would |
| nation demanding the enfranchisement of women. I ask you that you |
| the rank and file of the ignorant men of the States. If you would |
| Ballot Box They Till Vote "no," Unless They Have Actual Argument |
| halls and prevent you from doing all those other things which you |
| again. That is why I appeal to you especially. As I have shown you |
| simply because of a military necessity slavery was abolished, |
| for the execution of the law; and you will remember, too, that the |
| Legislatures. You say that whenever the Legislatures extend the |
| Interior Department, it made my blood boil to the ends of my |
| for the practical application of the fundamental principles of |
| licensed it every year from that day to this, against all the |
| MISS ANTHONY. I want to read a few words that come from good |
| said then to Charles Sumner, if I could make the honorable Senator |
| friend from Missouri [Mr. VEST]. I wish, however, to say one |
| republicanism itself is not fit for human society. The argument is the |
| necessarily be taken. |
| Morrill, |
