favor of woman's power of command
and of government. The captain and mate lying ill with a fever,
she had the absolute control of both vessel and crew. Mrs.
Stone's speech was comprehensive and pointed, and called forth
frequent applause.

Dr. Harriot K. Hunt, a woman of wealth and position, protested every
year against being compelled to pay taxes while not recognized in the
government.

DR. HUNT'S PROTEST OF 1852.

_To Frederick W. Tracy, Treasurer, and the Assessors, and other
Authorities of the city of Boston, and the Citizens generally:_

Harriot K. Hunt, physician, a native and permanent resident of
the city of Boston, and for many years a taxpayer therein, in
making payment of her city taxes for the coming year, begs leave
to protest against the injustice and inequality of levying taxes
upon women, and at the same time refusing them any voice or vote
in the imposition and expenditure of the same. The only classes
of male persons required to pay taxes, and not at the same time
allowed the privilege of voting, are aliens and minors. The
objection in the case of aliens is their supposed want of
interest in our institutions and knowledge of them. The objection
in the case of minors, is the want of sufficient understanding.
These objections can not apply to women, natives of the city, all
of whose property interests are here, and who have accumulated,
by their own sagacity and industry, the very property on which
they are taxed. But this is not all; the alien, by going through
the forms of naturalization, the minor on coming of age, obtain
the right of voting; and so long as they continue to pay a mere
poll-tax of a dollar and a half, they may continue to exercise
it, though so ignorant as not to be able to sign their names, or
read the very votes they put into the ballot-boxes. Even
drunkards, felons, idiots, and lunatics, if men, may still enjoy
that right of voting to which no woman, however large the amount
of taxes she pays, however respectable her character, or useful
her life, can ever attain. Wherein, your remonstrant would
inquire, is the justice, equality, or wisdom of this?

That the rights and interests of the female part of the community
are sometimes forgotten or disregarded in consequence of their
deprivati