of the State; and
being taxed, should be represented.

In the recent debate in the Senate of the United States, on the
question of suffrage, Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, said:

Nor is it a fair statement of the case to say, that the man
represents the woman, because it is an assumption on the
part of the man--it is an involuntary representation on the
part of the woman. Representation implies a certain
delegated power, and a certain responsibility on the part of
the representative toward the party represented. A
representation to which the represented party does not
assent, is no representation at all; but is adding insult to
injury. When the American Colonies complained that they
ought not to be taxed unless they were represented in the
British Parliament, it would have been rather a singular
answer to tell them that they were represented by Lord
North, or even by the Earl of Chatham. The gentlemen on the
other side of the Chamber, who say that the States lately in
rebellion are entitled to immediate representation in this
Chamber, would hardly be satisfied if we should tell them
that my friend from Massachusetts represented South
Carolina, and my friend from Michigan represented Alabama.
They would hardly be satisfied with that kind of
representation. Nor have we any more right to assume that
the women are satisfied with the representation of the men.
Where has been the assembly at which this right of
representation was conferred? Where was the compact made? It
is wholly an assumption.

"White males" are the nobility of this country; they are the
privileged order, who have legislated as unjustly for women and
negroes as have the nobles of England for their disfranchised
classes. The existence of the English House of Commons is a
strong fact to prove that one class can not legislate for
another. Perhaps it may be necessary, in this transition period
of our civilization, to create a Lower House for women and
negroes, lest the dreadful example of Massachusetts, nay, worse,
should be repeated here, and women, as well as black men, take
their places beside our Dutch nobility in the councils of the
State. If th