t by any right derived from
nature; for our common mother has set no brand on woman. If one
woman shall ask for a voice in the regulation of society of
which she is at least one-half, who shall say her nay? If any
woman shall ask it, who shall deny it because another woman does
not ask it? There are many men who do not value their
citizenship; shall other men therefore be deprived of the ballot?
Suppose many women would not avail themselves of such a function,
are those with higher, or other views, to be therefore kept in
tutelage?

I trust you may succeed in this work in Nebraska. It is of
supreme importance to the cause. The example of Nebraska would
soon be followed by other States. The current of such a reform
knows no retiring ebb. The suffrage once acquired will never be
relinquished; first, because it will recommend itself, as it has
in Wyoming, by its results; second, because the women will
jealously guard their rights, and defend them with their ballots.
Wishing I could do more than send you good wishes for the
cause,[94] I am, respectfully yours,

A. A. SARGENT.

The following letter is from a daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(a graduate of Vassar College, and classmate of Miss Elizabeth
Poppleton), who two years before, on the eve of her departure for
Europe, gave her eloquent address on Edmund Burke in that city:

TOULOUSE, France, September 3, 1882.

_To the Voters of my Generation in Nebraska:_

It is not my desire to present to you any argument, but only to
give you an episode in my own life. I desire to lay before you a
fact, not a fiction; a reality, not a supposition; an experience
not a theory.

I was born in a free republic and in my veins runs very
rebellious blood. An ancestor of my father was one of those
intrepid men who left the shores of old England and sailed forth
to establish on a distant continent the grandest republic that
has ever yet been known. That, you see, is not good blood to
submit to injustice. And on my mother's side we find a sturdy old
Puritan from whom our stock is traced, fleeing from England
because of the faith that was in him, and joining his rebellious
life to one of that honest Holland nation which had defied so
nobly t