let me commend it to him who desires to be the idol of that
heart.

"When"--Now, Mr. President, _sic transit gloria mundi_. "When I
afterwards found that he meant only freedom for the male sex, I
learned that Charles Sumner fell far short of the great idea of
liberty."

All this outpouring, all this magnificent burst of eloquence, all
this eclectic combination drawn from all the quarters of the
earth, all the sublime talk about the ballot, was merely meant
for the question of trousers and petticoats? "Tyranny to the male
sex," says Mrs. Gage, and now she goes on, and this right to the
point. The proposition here is to give to the male freedman a
vote and to ignore the female freedwoman, to be tautological: "I
know something of the freedwomen South. Maria--I do not know that
she had any other name--when liberated from slavery at Beaufort
went to work, and before the year was out she had laid up
$1,000."

That is a magnificent Maria, that is a practical Maria. She puts
Sterne's Maria and all other Marias, except Ave Maria, in the
shade. [Laughter].

"I never heard of any southern white making $1,000 in a year down
there. Shall Maria pay a tax and have no voice?" Shall Maria pay
a tax and have no voice where the principle is admitted, where
the principle is thundered forth, where it is axiomatic, where
none dare gainsay it, that taxation without representation is
tyranny? "Shall Maria pay a tax and have no voice?" That is the
question. That, Mr. President, is the question before the Senate.

"Old Betty"--There is not so much of the classic, not so much of
the euphonious, not so much of the _salva rosa_ about Betty as
about Maria--"Old Betty, while under my charge, cleared more than
that amount free from taxation, and I presume is worth $3,000
to-day."

Think of Betty! "Is she to be taxed in South Carolina to support
the aristocracy?" Betty lives in South Carolina, it seems. "Will
you be just, or will you be partial to the end of time!"

The marriage relation was alluded to by Mrs. Gage.

And here is a most important part, to which I would direct the
attention of my brother Senators as fundamental in two
respects--fundamental in the testimony it furnishes of the
character of those you now propose to invest with the righ