the wise and wary slave know that happiness depended upon
declaring contentment with his lot....

We are told that husband and wife will disagree and thus the
suffrage will destroy the family and ruin society. If a married
couple will quarrel at all, they will find the occasion, and it
would be fortunate indeed if their contention might concern
important affairs. There is no peace in the family save where
love is, and the same spirit which enables husband and wife to
enforce the toleration act between themselves in religious
matters will keep the peace between them in political
discussions. At all events this argument is unworthy of notice
unless we are to push it to its logical conclusion, and, for the
sake of peace in the family, to prohibit woman absolutely the
exercise of free speech and action. Men live with their
countrymen and yet disagree with them in politics, religion and
ten thousand of the affairs of life, as often the trifling as the
important. What harm, then, if woman be allowed her thought and
vote upon the tariff, education, temperance, peace, war, and
whatsoever else the suffrage decides.

We are told that no government of which we have authentic history
ever gave to women a share in the sovereignty. This is not true,
for the annals of monarchies and despotisms have been rendered
illustrious by queens of surpassing brilliance and power. But
even if it be true that no nation ever enfranchised woman--even
so until within one hundred years universal or even general
suffrage was unknown among men.

Has the millennium yet dawned? Is all progress at an end? If that
which is should therefore remain, why abolish the slavery of men?

We are informed that woman does not vote when she has the
opportunity. Wherever she has the unrestricted right she
exercises it. The records of Wyoming and Washington demonstrate
this fact.

Mr. Blair then quoted the statistics embodied in the report of the
committee, showing the slow but sure progress of the enfranchisement
of women, and concluded:

It is sometimes urged against this movement for the submission of
a resolution for a National Constitutional Amendment that women
should go to the States and fight it out there. But we did not
send the colored man to the States. No other amendment to