d faces, weep over the degeneracy of Republican leadership.

But there are those in authority in the government who do not
believe in this decision by the Supreme Court of the United
States. The attorney-general, in his instructions to the United
States marshals and their deputies or assistants in the Southern
States, when speaking of the countenance and support of all good
citizens of the United States in the respective districts of the
marshals, remarks:

It is not necessary to say that it is upon such countenance
and support that the United States mainly rely in their
endeavor to enforce the right to vote which they have given
or have secured.

You notice the phraseology. Again, he says:

The laws of the United States are supreme, and so,
consequently, is the action of officials of the United
States in enforcing them.

Secretary Sherman said in his speech at Steubenville, July 6:

The negroes are free and are citizens and voters. That, at
least, is a part of the constitution and cannot be changed.

And President Hayes in his two last messages, as Mrs. Blake
recited to you, has declared that--

United States citizenship shall mean one and the same thing
and carry with it all over our wide territory unchallenged
security and respect.

And that is what we ask for women.

In conclusion, gentlemen, I say to you that a sense of justice is
the sovereign power of the human mind, the most unyielding of
any; it rewards with a higher sanction, it punishes with a deeper
agony than any earthly tribunal. It never slumbers, never dies.
It constantly utters and demands justice by the eternal rule of
right, truth and equity. And on these eternal foundation-stones
we stand.

Crowning the dome of this great building there stands the
majestic figure of a woman representing Liberty. It was no
idealistic thought or accident of vision which gave us Liberty
prefigured by a woman. It is the great soul of the universe
pointing the final revelation yet to come to humanity, the
prophecy of the ages--the last to be first.[59]

When the proposition to print these speeches came before the House
a prolonged debate against it showed the readiness of the
opposition to avail themselves of every