g toast: "Our wives
and daughters--May the women of our race never unsex themselves
by becoming strong-minded."

E. C. S.

MARCH 11, 1869.

DRAWING THE LINES.--If the fifteenth article of Constitutional
Amendments ever gets ratified and becomes the rule of suffrage,
it will have at least one good effect. Woman will then know with
what power she has to contend. It will be male versus female, the
land over. All manhood will vote not because of intelligence,
patriotism, property, or white skin, but because it is male, not
female. All womanhood will be newly outraged and debased, not for
ignorance, disloyalty, poverty, or a black skin, but because it
is female, not male. Julia Ward Howe, of Boston, has some good
thoughts in the _Galaxy_ for March on this subject, in part as
below:

"The Irish or German savage, after three years' cleansing, is
admitted to the general enrollment of the community. The colored
man, cleaner at the start than these, the natural ally of
republican principles, trained to an understanding of freedom by
a long experience of its opposite, stands next upon the record.
Voting to him is a military necessity. It is the only weapon with
which he can meet those whom law, custom, and prejudice have
hitherto trebly armed against him. This admitted right of
elective franchise to all men, brings one scarcely anticipated
condition. It arrays now the whole male and female sexes in a new
and unforeseen condition. The right of the elective franchise is
now the recognition of the inalienable right of all men to the
proper administration of their interests, and in America this
right is founded upon the right of human intelligence to its own
exercise, the right of human labor to its own recompense. The
generous culture which allows woman in this country so large an
extension of thought, and the social necessities which place in
her hands so many of the nicer tasks hitherto kept for those of
the other sex, alike commission her to claim and make good her
right to the most simple, general and explicit method of
expressing her will in the arena where wills are counted and
respected."

END OF THE SUFFRAGE AGITATION.--"The adoption