same as voters. If they have property it is taxed
precisely the same and for the same purposes as is the
property of the voter. Government money and lands and
revenues are appropriated for schools, colleges, and
institutions of learning by the voters for their own use,
while the non-voters are debarred all rights and privileges
in the same. And it may be said that the disfranchised "have
no rights that the enfranchised are bound to respect." ... A
government that fails to execute its own laws and mocks at
its own enactments, can not be respected by its people. We
therefore demand that our representatives "shall guarantee
to every State in this Union a republican form of
government;" that the right of suffrage be guaranteed to all
persons of sound mind and adult years, without regard to
race, color, or sex.

Respectfully, FRANCES D. GAGE.

Rev. SAMUEL J. MAY said this movement was the most radical one
ever proposed to the civilized world. America had suffered
severely because it had violated the rights of 4,000,000 people.
If the rights of 15,000,000 were much longer violated, severer
suffering still would be induced.

CHARLOTTE B. WILBOUR said: In demanding suffrage for women we are
not making any innovation on political principles, but only
attempting to restore the broken connection between practice and
profession. A steady, constant, palpable ignoring of the
application of great truths, like the claim of woman's rights,
and the equality of all before the law, begets a reckless manner
of assertion, an illogical application of premises, and thence a
sort of organic dishonesty of mind which is carried into practice
almost unconsciously. Every subject of a government who has not a
voice in its conduct is openly degraded, and must be something
more or less than human not to show it in the conduct of his
life. We demand the ballot for women in the name of that very
domesticity which is urged against it, of that home whose peace
has always been more marred by passive servility and masculine
authority than by any over-assertion of individuality, on the
part of the so-called partner.

Speeches were also made by Mr. Hinton of Washington,