own? What woman studies a
business foreign to her own? In past ages this woman, in the
providence of God, we will say, has been shut out from political
action, for, so long as the sword ruled and man had to get his
liberty by the sword, so long woman had all she could do to guard
the home, for that was her part of the work; and she did it
bravely and well, you will say. But now men are not fighting for
their liberty with the gun by the door and the Indians outside.
You are fighting for it in halls of legislation, with the spirit
of truth--with spiritual weapons--and woman would be disloyal to
her womanhood if she did not ask to share these heavy
responsibilities with you. And she has really been training
herself all these years she has seemed so indifferent; she has
neglected her duty in part--I confess it freely--it is not your
fault alone, gentlemen, that we are not with you to-day. If we
had been as conscious of our duty and privilege years ago as we
are to-day, if we had known our birthright, we should have stood
by your side, welcome coadjutors, long since. So we will take the
blame of the past alike--we have all been walking very slowly
this path of Christian civilization. But in the greatest conflict
of modern times, you announced great principles and fought for
them on the field, and we stood by them in the home, and we stand
by them still there. And when we come to deliberate with you in
solemn council as to how these principles shall be carried into
legislation, your task will be easier, our opportunities will be
larger, and still our hearts will be where they have ever
been--in our homes.

Forty-first Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives,
Report, No. 22, Jan. 30, 1871, recommitted to the Committee on
Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. BINGHAM, from the
Committee on the Judiciary, made the following report.

_The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the
Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull, having considered the same,
make the following report:_

The Memorialist asks the enactment of a law by Congress which
shall secure to citizens of the United States in the several
States the right to vote "without regard to sex." Since the
adoption of the XIV. Amendment of the Constitution, there is no
longe