gnity as the New England wife and
mother," says Mr. H. Is wifehood more honorable, or motherhood
more sacred, in New England than in other places? Is to be a wife
and mother, and nothing else, the sole end and aim of woman? Or
is there not other work in God's universe which some woman may
possibly be called upon to do? Is Florence Nightingale or Anna
Dickinson less dignified than Mrs. John Smith, who happens
physically to be the mother of half-a-dozen children, but
mentally and morally is as much of a child as any of them?

"Woman has just the sphere she wants. She has more privileges
than she could vote herself into," says Mr. H. Has she, indeed? I
know women, who would gladly vote themselves into the privilege
of having the custody of their own children, whose husbands are
notoriously drunken and licentious. They are pure, good women,
who, rather than part with their children, live on with men whose
very breath is pollution. I know others who would like to vote
themselves into the privilege of retaining their own hard
earnings instead of having them sacrificed by a drunken husband.
Widows have been literally turned out of doors after their
husbands' death, and the property they had helped to accumulate
divided among those who never earned it. Do you think such women
would not change the laws of inheritance if they had the power?

"Husband and wife are one, hence one vote is sufficient," says
Mr. H. Follow out the reasoning, if you please. "Both one," hence
one dinner is sufficient, "both one," hence if a man is a member
of a church his wife is also. In plain English, "the husband and
wife are both one," and the husband is that one. Now in case
_that one_ should die, is it fair, or just, or fitting, that the
widow--"the relict"--or, in the words of Mr. H., "the feminine
spirit that has supplemented this masculine nature," whose hands
have been tied all these years, should be called upon to pay
taxes upon the share of property the law allows her? Taxation
without representation was the immediate cause of the famous
tea-party in Boston harbor, and, in fact, of a good many other
unpleasant things that followed.

"Woman has just the sphere she wants," says Mr. H., closing the
discussion. No, sir, she has not. Had those young ladies in
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