tizen of his citizenship and of all power to protect
his person or property by law.

Disfranchised classes are ever helpless and degraded classes. One
can readily judge of the political status of a citizen by the
tone of the press. Go back a few years, and you find the Irishman
the target for all the gibes and jeers of the nation. You could
scarce take up a paper without finding some joke about "Pat" and
his last bull. But in process of time "Pat" became a political
power in the land, and editors and politicians could not afford
to make fun of him. Then "Sambo" took his turn. They ridiculed
his thick skull, woolly head, shin-bone, long heel, etc., but he,
too, has become a political power; he sits in the Congress of the
United States and in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and now
politicians and editors can not afford to make fun of him.

Now, who is their target? Woman. They ridicule all alike--the
strong-minded for their principles, the weak minded for their
panniers. How long think you the New York _Tribune_ would
maintain its present scurrilous tone if the votes of women could
make Horace Greeley Governor of New York? The editor of the
_Tribune_ knows the value of votes, and if, honorable gentlemen,
you will give us a "Declaratory law," forbidding the States to
deny or abridge our rights, there will be no need of arguments to
change the tone of his journal; its columns will speedily glow
with demands for the protection of woman as well as broadcloth
and pig-iron. Then we might find out what he knows and cares for
our real and relative value in the Government.

Without some act of Congress regulating suffrage for women as
well as black men, women citizens of the United States who, in
Washington, Utah, and Wyoming Territories, are voters and jurors,
and who, in the State of Kansas, vote on school and license
questions, would be denied the exercise of their right to vote in
all the States of the Union, and no naturalization papers,
education, property, residence, or age could help them. What an
anomaly is this in a republic! A woman who in Wyoming enjoys all
the rights, privileges, and immunities of a sovereign, by
crossing the line into Nebraska, sinks at once to the political
degradation of a slave. Humiliated with such injustice, one s