ence to her political
rights, as that it has been conceded with regard to these other
rights, which are now settled in the estimation of thinking and
reasoning people. The tide sets that way, clearly and strongly.
Kansas is not to go alone, in granting this right to woman. The
agitation is to go on; and the more you resist the current of
events, the more earnestly will the agitation be continued until
reason shall be convinced; until prejudice shall be overcome by
the power of conviction; until men are constrained, from very
shame, to withdraw from a position which no argument, no
experience can justify, which no consideration of decency will
palliate.

One objection to our claim is, that the right of voting should
not belong to human beings as individuals, but rather to
households of human beings. This is not a denial of equality in
all respects, but an allegation that the right belongs neither to
the man nor to the woman, but to the household; and that for the
household, as its representative, the man casts the ballot.
Suppose I concede that, what then? Why should the head of the
household, or rather the _hand_ of the household, be masculine
rather than feminine? We have heard the argument over and over
again that woman should leave to man the counting-house, the
work-bench, and all the duties supposed peculiarly to appertain
to masculine humanity, and should attend to "household" matters.
If, then, suffrage is a household matter, why should not woman
attend to it, in her feminine capacity, as peculiarly within her
domestic province, and relieve man from the interruption of his
appropriate duties?

Rev. Mr. RAY inquired what was the basis for the right of
suffrage, if suffrage was not, as Mr. Burleigh had said yesterday
in another place, a natural right. If it does not belong to the
individual whence does it come? The Sultan of Turkey may claim
that the right belongs to him, and that he may delegate that
right to whomsoever he will to assist him in the government of
the people. But in a Republic the right must be in the
individual; and if so, it belongs to woman as well as to man, to
black as well as to white persons. If the right of suffrage is
not a natural right, why has not the Constitutional Convention
about to meet the rig