committees, juries, etc., etc., is not in our judgment calculated
to elevate woman more than to reform existing abuses in
legislation and practical politics. We should greatly prefer a
system like this:

Let the women of our State, after due discussion and
consultation, hold a convention composed of delegates from the
several counties, equal in number to the members of Assembly. To
this Convention let none but women be admitted, whether as
officers or spectators. Let this convention, keeping its debates
wholly private, decide what department of legislative government
may be safely assigned and set apart to woman. We would suggest
all that relates to the family; marriage, divorce, separation
from bed and board, the control and maintenance of children,
education, the property rights of married women, inheritance,
dower, etc., etc., as subjects that could wisely and safely be
set apart to be legislated upon by woman alone. And we believe
that if she (not a few women, but the sex) shall ever suggest and
require such an apportionment of legislative powers and duties,
man will cheerfully concede it.

"But would you have woman hold elections like ours"? No! we would
not! We would have her teach us how to take the sense of the
electors far more quietly and cheaply. When a department of
legislation shall be assigned to woman, we would have her collect
through school-district, or kindred organizations, the names of
all female citizens who possess the qualifications, other than of
sex, required from male voters at our elections. These being
duly, lucidly registered, let, then, women in each Assembly
district be designated to collect the votes of its women. Let
them simply advertise the address to which votes should be sent
and appoint a week wherein to collect them. Now, let every female
citizen write her ballot and enclose it, signing her name to the
address indicated; and due time having been allowed for votes to
arrive by mail or otherwise, let the votes be duly canvassed, and
the result ascertained and declared, and certificates of election
issued accordingly.

Under this plan, the invalid, the bed-ridden, the bereaved, and
even the absent, could vote as well as others, and the cost of
holding an election throughout the State need not reac