tly acquitted and
afterwards sent abroad as foreign minister. A few months ago a
married woman in Georgia, who had been taunted by her rival with
boasts of having gained her husband's love, found this rival
dancing with him. She drew a knife and killed the woman on the
spot. She was tried, convicted, and, although nursing one infant,
and again about to become a mother, was sentenced to be hanged by
the neck till she was 'dead, dead, dead.' There is Mr. Wadleigh's
equal administration of justice between man and woman! There is
"the sympathy of judges and juries." There is the "extent which
would warrant loud complaint on the part of their adversaries of
the sterner sex." And this woman escaped the gallows not because
of "the sympathy of the judge" or "jury," but because her own sex
took the matter up, and from every part of the country sent
petitions by the hundreds to Governor Colquitt of Georgia, asking
her pardon. That pardon came in the shape of ten years'
imprisonment;--ten years in a cell for a woman, the mother of a
nursing and an unborn infant, while for General Sickles the
mission to Madrid with high honors and a fat salary.

Messrs. Wadleigh of New Hampshire, McMillan of Minnesota, Ingalls
of Kansas, Saulsbury of Delaware, Merrimon of North Carolina and
Hill of Georgia, all senators of the United States, are the
committee that report it "inexpedient" to secure equal rights to
the women of the United States. But we are not discouraged; we
are not disheartened; all the Wadleighs in the Senate, all the
committees of both Houses, the whole congress of the United
States against us, would not lessen our faith, nor our efforts.
We know we are right; we know we shall be successful; we know the
day is not far distant, when this government and the world will
acknowledge the exact and permanent political equality of man and
woman, and we know that until that hour comes woman will be
oppressed, degraded; a slave, without a single right that man
feels himself bound to respect. Work then, women, for your own
freedom. Let the early morning see you busy, and dusky evening
find you planning how you may become FREE.

But the most severe judgment upon Mr. Wadleigh's action came from
his own constituents, who, at the close of the forty-fifth congress
excused his