ny of the rest of us--I say in the face of this movement and
in recognition of it, I earnestly beg all patriots here to think
of this proposition. It is inevitable. How are you to resist when
it is made the demand of fifteen million American females for
this right, which can be granted and which can be as safely
exercised in their hands as it can in the hands of negroes? And I
would ask gentlemen while they are bestowing this ballot which
has such merit in it, which has such a healing efficacy for all
ills, which educates people, and which elevates them above the
common level of mankind, and which, above all, protects them, how
they will go home and look in the face their sewing women, their
laboring women, their single women, their taxed women, their
overburdened women, their women who toil till midnight for the
barest subsistence, and say to them, "We have it not for you; we
could give it to the negro, but we could not give it to you."

How would the honorable Senator from Massachusetts face the
recent meeting of the Equal Rights Society in Philadelphia? How
would he answer the potent arguments which were offered there and
which challenge an answer even from the Senate of the United
States, when made by women of the highest intellect, perhaps, on
the planet, and women who are determined, knowing their rights,
to maintain them and to secure them? I ask honorable Senators of
his faith how they are to answer those ladies there? If this is
refused, how are Senators to answer, especially those who
recognize the onward force of this movement, who are up to the
tendencies of the times, who desire to keep themselves in front
of the great army of humanity which is marching forward just as
certainly to universal suffrage as to universal manhood suffrage.
Therefore, Mr. President, I offer this amendment and ask for the
yeas and nays upon it.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

Mr. ANTHONY: I move that the Senate do now adjourn. ["Oh, no!"]

Mr. WILSON: I hope not.

The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: The motion is not debatable and must be
put unless withdrawn.

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate adjourned.

SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.
IN SENATE, TUESDAY, _Dec. 11, 1866_.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: If there