out on the hustings and at the ballot-box, and fight their way to
the polls through negroes and others who are not the best of
company even at the polls, to say nothing of the disgrace of
association with them. You would paralyze one-third at least of
the women of this land by the very vulgarity of the overture made
to them that they should go struggling to the polls in order to
vote in common with the herd of men. They would not undertake it.
The most intelligent and trustworthy part of the suffrage thus
placed upon the land would never be available, while that which
was not worthy of respect either for its character or for its
information would take the matter in hand and move along in the
circle of politicians to cast their suffrages at the ballot-box.

As the States to be formed out of the territories are admitted
into the Union, they will come stamped with the characteristics
which the legislatures of the territories have imprinted upon
them; and if after due consideration in those territories the men
who have the regulation of public affairs should come to the
conclusion that it was best to have woman suffrage, then we can
allow them, under existing laws, to go on and perfect their
systems and apply for admission into the Union with them as they
may choose to adopt them and to shape them. The law upon that
subject as it exists is liberal enough, for it gives to the
legislatures the right to regulate the qualifications of
suffrage. It leaves it to each local community, wherever it may
be throughout the territories of the United States, to determine
for itself what it may prefer to have.

Is it the object in the raising of this committee only that it
shall have so many speeches made, so much talk about it, or is it
to be the object of the committee to have legislation brought
here? If you bring legislation here, what will you bring? An
amendment to the constitution like the fourteenth amendment, or
else some provision obligatory upon the territories by which
female suffrage shall be allowed there, whether the people want
it or whether they do not? For my part, before this session of
congress ends I intend to introduce a bill to repeal woman
suffrage in the territory of Utah, knowing and believing that
that will be the most effectual reme