h $10,000.
Such are the outlines of our views regarding woman in politics.
They are doubtless susceptible of improvement; but we think not
by effacing in politics the natural and time-honored distinctions
between women and men. A female legislature, a jury of women, we
could abide; a legislature of men and women, a jury promiscuously
drawn from the sexes we do not believe in.

The New York _Independent_ published the following criticism on Mr.
Greeley's report a few days after its publication:

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

BY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.

Your committee does not recommend an extension of the
elective franchise to woman. However defensible in theory,
we are satisfied that public sentiment does not demand, and
would not sustain, an innovation so revolutionary and
sweeping; so openly at war with a distribution of duties and
functions between the sexes as venerable as the Government
itself, and involving transformations so radical in social
and domestic life. Should we prove to be in error on this
head, the Convention may overrule us by changing a few words
in the first section of our proposed article.

In the above extract from the majority report of the Committee on
Suffrage we have substantially four reasons why the committee did
not recommend an extension of the elective franchise to women.

1st. Public sentiment does not demand it.

2d. It would be an innovation revolutionary and sweeping.

3d. It is at war with a distribution of duties and functions
between the sexes.

4th. The enfranchisement of women would disturb relations as
venerable as government itself, and radically change our domestic
life.

Shades of Jeremy Bentham and Sidney Smith forgive! After
publishing to the world that immortal oration of Noodledom, and
refuting for all time such fallacies as the above, how amazing
that Radical Republicans in the capital of the Empire State
should repeat in the ears of the nineteenth century stale
platitudes from the effete civilizations of the Old World--that
to their starving wives and mothers, knocking at the door of the
political citadel, instead of bread and the ballot, they should
give stones and twenty years more of degradation in
disfranchisement. Bu