imate use of the
franking privilege by thus educating their constituents in the
first principles of a constitutional government--a government
founded upon personal liberty and personal responsibility. Half a
million dollars appropriated by Congress itself for this simple
purpose would inaugurate a reign of patriotism and purity
scarcely dreamed of as yet by the most powerful lovers of their
country. But Congress has not yet even printed the able reports
from the Judiciary Committee of the House, and the few copies we
have been able to send out have been the gift of a private
individual. Women must educate themselves--men must help them.
The latter hold the purse-strings; and so surely as they desire
peace, plenty, and the perpetuity of republican institutions,
they must see to it that women are supplied with the sinews of
war. Moral warfare costs not only heart's blood, but treasure.
Women are offering their very souls in behalf of mankind. Can men
do less than empty their pockets for the good of the race?

And there is one thing more that men can and must do before the
reign of justice and equality can be inaugurated. They, being
voters, must pledge themselves in their own breasts, and to one
another, that they will vote for such candidates in either party
as are in favor of woman suffrage, and for no others. Such
proceedings would settle the question in less than a year, and
the peaceful working of a new _regime_ would prove the wisdom and
patriotism of these faithful souls before the whole world. We
confidently believe that there are at least 300,000 voters to-day
who desire to share the burdens and responsibilities of
government with their mothers, wives, and sisters. Let them
combine and speak the sovereign words, "Principle before party,"
and the day is won.

Mrs. Hooker and other ladies united in a memorial, which was presented
in the Senate and referred to the Judiciary Committee, asking for a
recognition of the rights of women under the XIV. Amendment, and
asking further that the advocates of the cause be heard at the bar of
the Senate. Mr. Trumbull, the chairman of the committee, was not
willing for this; but, at Mrs. Hooker's solicitation, he agreed to
lay the subject before the committee, and it was finally agreed that a
hearing should be given on Friday morning,