I would go for my own highest convictions of right, irrespective of party. Perhaps our Senators know that woman would not be such a docile tool in their hands as the newly freed slave, and hence they will not give the ballot to us. If they do think so, they do us justice, because we would not be, you may depend on that. Perhaps, if women had the franchise, men would not need to go to war neither. And this is one great reason why I demand the franchise.
War is only a relic of the old barbarisms.
So long as woman is deprived of her right, man is only next door to a barbarian. If he were not, he never would go to war. The ballot is a teacher. Henry Ward Beecher, in a discourse on the subject last winter, said, in regard to woman's franchise, that the ballot is a teacher. I am glad to be able to agree with a minister, which is not often the case.