butchered the Indians with
such exterminating savagery, that, in fifty years, we should have
spent seven hundred millions of dollars for war, and now, in time
of peace, send twenty annual millions more to the same waste. I
doubt that we should have spread slavery into nine new States,
and made it national. I think the Fugitive Slave bill would never
have been an act. Woman has some respect for the natural law of
God.

I know men say woman can not manage the great affairs of a
nation. Very well. Government is political economy--national
housekeeping. Does any respectable woman keep house so badly as
the United States? with so much bribery, so much corruption, so
much quarrelling in the domestic councils?

But government is also political morality, it is national ethics.
Is there any worthy woman who rules her household as wickedly as
the nations are ruled? who hires bullies to fight for her? Is
there any woman who treats one-sixth part of her household as if
they were cattle and not creatures of God, as if they were things
and not persons? I know of none such. In government as
housekeeping, or government as morality, I think man makes a very
poor appearance, when he says woman could not do as well as he
has done and is doing.

I doubt that women will ever, as a general thing, take the same
interest as men in political affairs, or find therein an abiding
satisfaction. But that is for women themselves to determine, not
for men.

In order to attain the end--the development of man in body and
spirit--human institutions must represent all parts of human
nature, both the masculine and the feminine element. For the
well-being of the human race, we need the joint action of man and
woman, in the family, the community, the Church, and the State. A
family without the presence of woman--with no mother, no wife, no
sister, no womankind--is a sad thing. I think a community without
woman's equal social action, a church without her equal
ecclesiastical action, and a State without her equal political
action, is almost as bad--is very much what a house would be
without a mother, wife, sister, or friend.

You see what prevails in the Christian civilization of the
nineteenth century; it is Force--force of body, force of brain.
There is little