but there are a few who construe the law to
suit themselves, and say that those amendments do not mean that,
because the Congress that passed the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments did not mean to do that. Well, the Congress that passed
them were mean enough for anything if they did not mean to do
that. Let the wise Congress of to-day take the eighth chapter and
the fourth verse of the Psalms, which says, "What is man, that
Thou art mindful of him?" and amend it by adding, "What is woman,
that they never thought of her?"

REMARKS BY MRS. LUCINDA B. CHANDLER, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Mrs. CHANDLER. Gentlemen, it will be conceded that the progress of
civilization, all that lifts humanity above a groveling, sensual,
depraved state, is marked by the position, intelligence, and
culture of women. Perhaps you think that American women have no
rightful claim to present; but American women and mothers do claim
that they should have the power to protect their children, not
only at the hearthstone, but to supervise their education. It is
neither presuming nor unwomanly for the mothers and women of the
land to claim that they are competent and best fitted, and that
it rightfully belongs to them to take part in the management and
control of the schools, and the instruction, both intellectual
and moral, of their children, and that in penal, eleemosynary, or
reformatory institutions women should have positions as inspectors
of prisons, physicians, directors, and superintendents.

I have here a brief report from an association which sent me as a
delegate to the National Woman Suffrage Convention, in which it is
stated that women in Pennsylvania can be elected as directors on
school boards or superintendents of schools, but can not help to
elect those officers. It must very readily occur to your minds
that when women take such interest in the schools as mothers must
needs take they must feel many a wish to control the election of
the officers, superintendents, and managers of the schools. The
ladies here from New York city could, if they had time, give you
much testimony in regard to the management of schools in New York
city, and the need there of woman's love and woman's power in the
schools and on the school boards. I am also authorized by
the association which sent me here to report that th