ness, that the word _male_ is not in the Fifteenth
Amendment, as though that atoned for its infamy, and rendered it
worthy of woman's support. Why should the word _male_ be in it?
Three times solemnly muttered in the Fourteenth, it needed no
repetition in the Fifteenth.

Another ludicrous view of this subject, is the zeal with which so
many women are laboring to hoist all mandom into power over them.
Power as omnipotent as ignorance, prejudice, and love of
domination can possibly create. A little reflection, one would
think, might show and satisfy the blindest that the opposition
they encounter already is quite sufficient, without augmenting it
a thousand fold, and anchoring it fast in the constitution of the
country. True, they are assured by radical Republicans that as
soon as the negro man is secured, the colored woman and the white
woman also shall be equally distinguished. Had this age an AEsop,
he would tell again his story of the goat and the fox at the
bottom of the well. How to get out, of course, was the question.
After long and anxious thought, a happy expedient struck the fox.
"Do you, friend goat, rear yourself up against the wall, as near
the top as possible, and from the tip of your horns I can spring
out, and then it will be quite easy to pull you up by the horns
also." No quicker spoken than done. Out leaped the fox, and was
safe. Then the goat demanded his release, as promised. "You old
fool!" answered Reynard! "Had you half as much brain as beard,
you would know that I would never risk my life to save yours,"
and away he ran. The whole history of American politics is
assurance, but pre-eminently so is the history of present
parties, that a party victory would scarcely be risked to save
all womankind from consuming fire. A very few such elections as
the late one in Virginia, would subdue immensely the present
Republican ardor on the colored man's rights.

But most ludicrous of all is it to hear old anti-slavery leaders
and teachers referring to the past for defense of their present
hostility, and challenging us to re-read that history and be
ashamed of our present course. But when in the past did Wendell
Phillips ever teach that a half loaf is better than no bread, if
poisoned, or if it were snatched or stolen from a family