ny upon his arm
and telling her not to flinch, he made his way to the platform,
when the chairman, Hon. Wade Hampton of South Carolina, politely
offered her a seat, and ordered the clerk to read the address:

_To the Democratic Party in Nominating Convention Assembled,
Cincinnati, June 22, 1880:_

On behalf of the women of the country we appear before you,
asking the recognition of woman's political rights as one-half
the people. We ask no special privileges, no special legislation.
We simply ask that you live up to the principles enunciated by
the Democratic party from the time of Jefferson. By what
principle of democracy do men assume to legislate for women?
Women are part of the people; your very name signifies government
by the people. When you deny political rights to women you are
false to your own principles.

The Declaration of Independence recognized human rights as its
basis. Constitutions should also be general in character. But in
opposition to this principle the party in power for the last
twenty years has perverted the Constitution of the United States
by the introduction of the word "male" three times, thereby
limiting the application of its guarantees to a special class. It
should be your pride and your duty to restore the constitution to
its original basis by the adoption of a sixteenth amendment,
securing to women the right of suffrage; and thus establish the
equality of all United States citizens before the law.

Not for the first time do we make of you these demands. At your
nominating convention in New York, in 1868, Susan B. Anthony
appeared before you, asking recognition of woman's inherent
natural rights. At your convention of 1872, in Baltimore,
Isabella Beecher Hooker and Susan B. Anthony made a similar
appeal. In 1876, at St. Louis, Phoebe W. Couzins and Virginia L.
Minor presented our claims. Now, in 1880, our delegates are
present here from the Middle States, from the West and from the
South. The women of the South are rapidly uniting in their demand
for political recognition, as they have been the most deeply
humiliated by a recognition of the political rights of their
former slaves.

To secure to 20,000,000 of women the rights of citizenship is to
base your party on the eternal principles of justice; it is to