ssional action throughout this session proves that if all
the friends of woman suffrage had been steadfast to their principles,
and made a simultaneous effort against any further extension of
"manhood suffrage" until woman too was recognized, the measure might
have been carried; at least the agitation could have been prolonged
and intensified in the halls of legislation fourfold. But in the
general confusion as to what might or might not be sound policy, the
most liberal took each onward step with doubt and hesitation. However,
the persistent hostility to the amendments kept up the agitation in
Congress, which at last culminated in a proposition for a Sixteenth
Amendment, for which the National Woman Suffrage Association has, with
one short interval, ever since petitioned.

THE SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT.--March 15, 1869, will be held memorable
in all coming time as the day when the Hon. George W. Julian
submitted a "Joint Resolution" to Congress to enfranchise the
women of the Republic by proposing a Sixteenth Amendment to the
Federal Constitution, which reads as follows:

ART. 16. The Right of Suffrage in the United States shall be
based on citizenship, and shall be regulated by Congress;
and all citizens of the United States, whether native or
naturalized, shall enjoy this right equally without any
distinction or discrimination whatever founded on sex.

Since our famous Bill of Rights was given to the world declaring
all men equal, there has been no other proposition, in its
magnitude, beneficence, and far-reaching consequences, so
momentous as this. The specific work now before us, is to press
the importance of this Amendment on the consideration of the
people, and to urge Congress to its speedy adoption. Suffrage
associations should be formed at once and newspapers established
in every State to press Woman's Enfranchisement, and petitions
should be circulated in every school district from Maine to
California, praying the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment, that
when the Forty-second Congress assembles it may understand the
work before it.--_The Revolution_, April 29, 1869.

Petitions for a Sixteenth Amendment were immediately printed and sent
throughout the nation, and have been steadily rolling into Congress
for the last thirteen years from all the State and National Woman
Suffrage A