d by the power of
the ballot to be allowed to help reform women and benefit mankind.

REMARKS OF MRS. MARY A. STEWART, OF DELAWARE.

Mrs. STEWART. I come from a small State, but one that is
represented in this Congress, I consider, by some of the ablest
men in the land. Our State, though small, has heretofore possessed
and to-day possesses brains. Our sons have no more right to brains
than our daughters, yet we are tied down by every chain that could
bind the Georgian slave before the war. Aye, we are worse slaves,
because the Georgian slave could go to the sale block and there be
sold. The woman of Delaware must submit to her chains, as there is
no sale for her; she is of no account.

Woman from all time has occupied the highest positions in the
world. She is just as competent to-day as she was hundreds of
years ago. We are taxed without representation; there is no
mistake about that. The colonies screamed that to England;
Parliament screamed back, "Be still; long live the king, and we
will help you." Did the colonies submit? They did not. Will the
women of this country submit? They will not. Mark me, we are the
sisters of those fighting Revolutionary men; we are the daughters
of the fathers who sang back to England that they would not
submit. Then, if the same blood courses in our veins that courses
in yours, dare you expect us to submit?

The white men of this country have thrown out upon us, the women,
a race inferior, you must admit, to your daughters, and yet that
race has the ballot, and why? He has a right to it; he earned and
paid for it with his blood. Whose blood paid for yours? Not your
blood; it was the blood of your forefathers; and were they not our
forefathers? Does a man earn a hundred thousand dollars and lie
down and die, saying, "It is all my boys'?" Not a bit of it. He
dies saying, "Let my children, be they cripples, be they idiots,
be they boys, or be they girls, inherit all my property alike."
Then let us inherit the sweet boon of the ballot alike.

When our fathers were driving the great ship of state we were
willing to ride as deck or cabin passengers, just as we felt
disposed; we had nothing to say; but to-day the boys are about to
run the ship aground, and it is high time that the mothers should
be asking, "What do you mean to do?" It is h