to ward
political-assembly rooms, pass this joint resolution. But for one
I thank God that I am so old-fashioned that I would not give one
memory of my grandmother or of my mother for all the arguments
that could be piled, Pelion upon Ossa, in favor of this political
monstrosity.

I now present a pamphlet sent to me by a lady. I do not know
whether she be wife or mother. She signs this pamphlet as Adeline
D. T. Whitney. I have read it twice, and read it to pure and
gentle and intellectual women. I shall not read it today for my
strength does not suffice.[59] ... There is not one impure,
unintellectual aspiration or thought throughout the whole of it.
Would to God that I knew her, that I could thank her on behalf of
the society and politics of the United States for this
production. She says to her own sex: "After all, men work for
women; or, if they think they do not, it would leave them but
sorry satisfaction to abandon them to such existence as they
could arrange without us."

Oh, how true that is, how true!

This pamphlet of over five thousand words which began, "What is the
law of woman-life? What was she made woman for, and not man?"--might
be described as the apotheosis of the sentimental effusions of
Senators Brown and Vest.

During the discussion Senator George F. Hoar (Mass.) said:

Mr. President, I do not propose to make a speech at this late
hour of the day, it would be cruel to the Senate, and I had not
expected that this measure would be here this afternoon. I was
absent on a public duty and came in just at the close of the
speech of my honorable friend from Missouri. I wish, however, to
say one word in regard to what seemed to be the burden of his
speech.

He says that the women who ask this change in our political
organization are not simply seeking to be put upon school boards
and upon boards of health and charity and to fulfil all the large
number of duties of a political nature for which he must confess
they are fit, but he says they will want to be President of the
United States, and Senators and marshals and sheriffs, and that
seems to him supremely ridiculous. Now I do not understand that
this is the proposition. What they want is simply to be eligible
to such public duty as a majority of their fellow-citizens may
think