ll not be
quite as much military duty to be done. They will then have a
voice and a vote in the matter, and the men will no longer be
able to throw the country into a war to gratify spite or
ambition, tearing from woman's arms her nearest and dearest. All
men do not like "military duty." "The key to that horrible
enigma, German socialism, is antagonism to the military system,"
and nations are shaken with fear because of it. But when there is
necessity for military duty, women will be found in line. The
person who planned the Tennessee campaign, in which the Northern
armies secured their first victories, was a woman, Anna Ella
Carroll. Gen. Grant acted upon her plan, and was successful. She
was endorsed by President Lincoln, Seward, Stanton, Wade, Scott,
and all the nation's leaders in its hour of peril, and yet
congress has not granted her the pension which for ten years her
friends have demanded. Mr. Wadleigh holds his seat in the United
States Senate to-day, because of the "military duty" done by this
woman.

"About 30,000 names," to petitions. There have been 70,000 sent
in during the present session of congress, for a sixteenth
amendment, besides hundreds of individual petitions from women
asking for the removal of their own political disabilities. Men
in this country are occasionally disfranchised for crime, and
sometimes pray for the removal of their political disabilities.
Nine such disfranchised men had the right of voting restored to
them during the last session of congress. But not a single one of
the five hundred women who individually asked to have their
political disabilities removed, was even so much as noticed by an
adverse report, Mr. Wadleigh knows it would make no difference if
300,000 women petitioned. But whether women ask for the ballot or
not has nothing to do with the question. Self-government is the
natural right of every individual, and because woman possesses
this natural right, she should be secured in its exercise.

Mr. Wadleigh says, "nor can woman justly complain of any
partiality in the administration of justice." Let us examine: A
few years ago a married man in Washington, in official position,
forced a confession from his wife at the mouth of a pistol, and
shot his rival dead. Upon trial he was triumphan