property qualifications to vote at ordinary elections. Even
the black man was represented by delegates for whom he had
voted. In presenting a petition from Lincoln with seventy
names of women who desired to vote, General Manderson said
he had made inquiries, and these were the names of the
respectable, influential ladies of Lincoln, sixty-three of
whom were married. He then reviewed the history and workings
of woman suffrage in Wyoming, furnishing the highest
testimony in its favor, and closed as follows:

Mr. Chairman, I envy not the heart or the head of the man,
let him occupy what place he may, let him sit in a
legislative body or wield the editorial pen, who is so base
as to denounce the advocates of this measure as demagogues,
and to say that if the right is extended to woman, the low,
the miserable, will outnumber at the polls the thousands of
virtuous wives throughout this land who advocate this
measure; the lie is thrown in his teeth by that noble woman,
Mrs. Livermore, who did more service in time of war as a
soldier battling for the right than did even my gallant
friend, and did far more than myself. She inaugurated and
carried in her mighty hand and guided by her mighty brain
that Western Ladies' Aid Society, and helped by some means
the Western Sanitary Association that did more than 10,000
armed men to suppress the late rebellion. The lie is hurled
in the teeth of the vile slanderer by this petition from the
honest, virtuous ladies of the city of Lincoln. If we have
planted one seed, that will bring forth good fruit, God be
thanked for that result.

Mr. Kenaston spoke in favor of the measure, and Judge Moore
opposed it in a very witty speech, of which the principal
points were that the members were to decide according to
expediency, not right; that women had always consented to
the government--never trampled the flag in the dust, but
always rallied to its support. Judge O. P. Mason followed in
opposition, also J. C. Myers, the latter claiming that for
twenty years the advocates of woman suffrage have made
little, if any, impression on the public mind