and if, for the pure love of it, we now and then
rehearse the logic that is like a, b, c, to all of us, others cry
out--the same old speeches we have heard these twenty years. It
would be safe to say a hundred years, for they are the same our
fathers used when battling old King George and the British
Parliament for their right to representation, and a voice in the
laws by which they were governed. There are no new arguments to
be made on human rights, our work to-day is to apply to ourselves
those so familiar to all; to teach man that woman is not an
anomalous being, outside all laws and constitutions, but one
whose rights are to be established by the same process of reason
as that by which he demands his own.

When our Fathers made out their famous bill of impeachment
against England, they specified eighteen grievances. When the
women of this country surveyed the situation in their first
convention, they found they had precisely that number, and quite
similar in character; and reading over the old revolutionary
arguments of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Otis, and Adams, they
found they applied remarkably well to their case. The same
arguments made in this country for extending suffrage from time
to time, to white men, native born citizens, without property and
education, and to foreigners; the same used by John Bright in
England, to extend it to a million new voters, and the same used
by the great Republican party to enfranchise a million black men
in the South, all these arguments we have to-day to offer for
woman, and one, in addition, stronger than all besides, the
difference in man and woman. Because man and woman are the
complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national
affairs to make a safe and stable government.

The Republican party to-day congratulates itself on having
carried the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution, thus
securing "manhood suffrage" and establishing an aristocracy of
sex on this continent. As several bills to secure Woman's
Suffrage in the District and the Territories have been already
presented in both houses of Congress, and as by Mr. Julian's
bill, the question of so amending the Constitution as to extend
suffrage to all the women of the country has been presented to
the nation for considerat