ndent--capable of
managing his own affairs, or making his own living, and does make
it, should have the same right of choice in the selection of his
political agents that he has to select his legal or business
agents. But all persons, no matter from what cause, who are
unable to maintain themselves, and are dependent for their
support upon others, are incapable of any share in the
government, and should have no voice--no vote. As soon as the
principle of citizenship comes to be thoroughly understood, woman
suffrage must be adopted throughout the United States, in
England, and in every country where representative government
exists.

_The Revolution_ of August 20, 1868, said:

We have received from Loring P. Haskins, esq., a delegate to the
convention, the following excellent report and declaration made
and signed by a majority of the committee to whom the subject of
woman suffrage was referred. We need scarcely bespeak attentive
reading:

_Report of the Committee on State Affairs upon Female
Suffrage, with accompanying Declaration:_

July 30, 1868--Introduced and ordered to be printed.

COMMITTEE ROOM, AUSTIN, Texas, July 10, 1868.

_To the Hon. E. J. Davis, President of the Convention:_

A majority of your Committee on State Affairs, to whom was
referred the declaration introduced by the Hon. T. H.
Mundine of the county of Burleson, to extend the right of
suffrage to all citizens of the State over the age of
twenty-one years, possessing the requisite qualifications
for electors, have examined with much care said declaration
and considered the object sought to be accomplished, and
have arrived at the conclusion that said declaration ought
to be a part of the organic law.

It was said by George Washington that the safety of
republican government depends upon the virtue and
intelligence of the people. This declaration is not a new
theory of government for the first time proposed to be made
a part of our republican institutions. The idea of extending
the elective franchise to females has been discussed both in
Great Britain and in the United States. Your committee are
of the opinion that the true base of