and the sex in general believe it. When Milton penned the line, "God,
thy will, thou mine," and made his Eve thus reverently submissive to
her Adam, he little thought of bright girls in the nineteenth century,
well versed in science, philosophy, and the languages, sitting in the
senior class of a college of the American republic, laughing his male
conceit to scorn.

FOOTNOTES:

[76] The _New York Tribune_, Feb. 19, 1881, gives the following
interesting facts: "William Franklin, the illegitimate son of
Benjamin, who was long a resident of New York and hereabout, conducted
in person his father's postal system. At Amboy, or Perth Amboy, a
little town of once high aristocratic standing, which dozes on the
edge of the Jersey hills and overlooks the oyster groves of Prince's
Bay, began the Post-Office of North America under John Hamilton in
1694. It was a private patent, and he sold it to the Government. Many
years afterward William Franklin settled at the same place, where once
his father passed in Hamilton's day a footsore vagrant pressing from
Boston to Philadelphia to get bread. There the younger Franklin reared
a 'palace,' and lived in it as Governor of New Jersey till his
adherence to the Crown, that had done better for him than his
father--made him an exile and a captive. He was sent under guard to
East Windsor, Conn., and his jail was made in the house of Captain
Ebenezer Grant there, of the family of President Grant's ancestors,
and he was prohibited the use of pen, ink, and paper--a needless
punishment to a man who had delivered so many letters to others."

[77] In the _New York Observer_, 1876.

[78] After a diligent search for Mr. James Ross and his promised
"interesting chapter of local history," we learned that the author was
in his grave, and that from his posthumous papers this valuable
document had not yet been exhumed by his literary executor.

[79] The following letter contains the sentiments referred to in the
text:

ORANGE, N. J., _Dec. 18, 1858_.

MR. MANDEVILLE, TAX COLLECTOR, SIR:--Enclosed I return my tax
bill, without paying it. My reason for doing so is, that women
suffer taxation, and yet have no representation, which is not only
unjust to one-half the adult population, but is contrary to our
theory of government. For years some women have been paying their
taxes under protest, but still taxes are imposed, and
representation