act a law conferring
suffrage in the States, nevertheless they are ready and willing
to vote for such an amendment to the constitution as shall make
citizenship and suffrage uniform throughout the nation. For this
purpose I have added to the proposed amendment for the election
of president a section on suffrage, to which I invite special
attention.

This is the third or fourth time I have brought forward a
proposition on suffrage substantially like the one just presented
to the House. I do so again because I believe the question of
citizenship suffrage one which ought to be met and settled now.
Important and all-absorbing as many questions are which now press
themselves upon our consideration, to me no one is so vitally
important as this. Tariffs, taxation, and finance ought not to be
permitted to supersede a question affecting the peace and
personal security of every citizen, and, I may add, the peace and
security of the nation. No party can be justified in withholding
the ballot from any citizen of mature years, native or foreign
born, except such as are _non compos_ or are guilty of infamous
crimes; nor can they justly confer this great privilege upon one
class of citizens to the exclusion of another class.

The _Revolution_ of March 19, 1868, said:

Notwithstanding the most determined hostility to the demands of
the age for female physicians, institutions for their educational
preparation for professional responsibilities are rapidly
increasing. The ball first began to move in the United
States,[290] and now a female medical college is in successful
operation in London, where the favored monopolizers of physic and
surgery were resolved to keep out all new ideas in their line by
acts of parliament. But the ice-walls of opposition have melted
away, and even in Russia a woman has graduated with high medical
honors.

The following statistics from Thomas Wentworth Higginson settle
many popular objections to a collegiate education for women:

GRADUATES OF ANTIOCH COLLEGE.--In a paper read before the Social
Science Association in the spring of 1874 I pointed out the
presumption to be, that if a desire for knowledge was implanted
in the minds of women, they had also as a class the physical
capacity to gratify it; and that therefore the burden of