l enjoy this right equally, without
any distinction or discrimination whatever founded on sex."

[Autograph: Geo W. Julian]

The last of December Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Mr.
Julian introduced bills to enfranchise women in the District of
Columbia, the latter including also the women in the Territories. A
review of the situation in The Revolution of December 31, said:

In our political opinions, we have been grossly misunderstood and
misrepresented. There never was a time, even in the re-election of
Lincoln, when to differ from the leading party was considered more
inane and treasonable. Because we made a higher demand than either
Republicans or Abolitionists, they in self-defense revenged
themselves by calling us Democrats; just as the church at the time
of its apathy on the slavery question revenged the goadings of
Abolitionists by calling them "infidels." If claiming the right of
suffrage for every citizen, male and female, black and white, a
platform far above that occupied by Republicans or Abolitionists
today, is to be a Democrat, then we glory in the name, but we have
not so understood the policy of modern Democracy. Though The
Revolution and its founders may have been open to criticism in many
respects, all admit that we have galvanized the people into life
and slumbering friends to action on this question.

[Footnote 46: On the Sunday before, the two ladies were invited to
breakfast at the home of Mr. Melliss, with the president of the
National Labor Union and a number of prominent men from Wall street, to
talk over their prospects in the convention.]

[Footnote 47: Dr. Clemence Lozier and Mrs. Eleanor Kirk went to
Moyamensing prison to see the unfortunate girl. In passing the
different cells they noticed many women prisoners and one of the ladies
asked the inspector if he could give any idea of the cause of the
downfall of these women. "Yes," he replied, "faith in men."]

CHAPTER XIX.

AMENDMENT XV--FOUNDING OF NATIONAL SOCIETY.

1869.

Notwithstanding the protests and petitions of the women, the Fourteenth
Amendment had been formally declared ratified July 28, 1868, the word
"male" being thereby three times branded on the Constitution. In the
resolutions of Senator Pomeroy and Mr. Julian, however, they found new
hope and fresh courage. They had learned that the Federal Constitution
could be so amended as to enfra