e Constitutional Amendments have established the political
equality of all citizens before the law.

President Grant, in his message to Congress March 30, 1870, on
the adoption of the XV. Amendment, said:

A measure which makes at once four millions of people
voters, is indeed a measure of greater importance than any
act of the kind from the foundation of the Government to the
present time.

How could the four million negroes be made voters if the two
million women were not included?

The California State Republican Convention said:

Among the many practical and substantial triumphs of the
principles achieved by the Republican party during the past
twelve years, we may enumerate with pride and pleasure, the
prohibiting of any State from abridging the privileges of
any citizen of the Republic, the declaring the civil and
political equality of every citizen, and the establishing of
all these principles in the Federal Constitution by
amendments thereto, as the permanent law.

Benjamin F. Butler, in a recent letter to me said:

I do not believe anybody in Congress doubts that the
Constitution authorizes the right of women to vote,
precisely as it authorizes trial by jury and many other like
rights guaranteed to citizens. And again, It is not laws we
want; there are plenty of laws--good enough, too.
Administrative ability to enforce law is the great want of
the age, in this country especially. Everybody talks of law,
law. If everybody would insist on the enforcement of law,
the government would stand on a firmer basis, and questions
would settle themselves.

And it is upon this just interpretation of the United States
Constitution that our National Woman Suffrage Association, which
celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the woman's rights
movement, in New York on the 6th of May next, has based all its
arguments and action the past three years. We no longer petition
Legislature or Congress to give us the right to vote. We appeal
to the women everywhere to exercise their too long neglected
"citizen's right to vote." We appeal to the inspectors of
election everywhere to receive the votes of all United States
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