Establish pure, honest, lovely things--things of good report--in the nurseries, the schools, the social circles where you reign, and the outside world and issue will take form and heed for themselves. The nation, of which the family is the root, will be made, and built, and saved accordingly. Every seed hath its own body. The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent-head of evil, and shall rise triumphant to become the ennobled, recreated commonwealth. Then shall pour forth the double paean that thrills through the glorious final chorus of Schumann's Faust--men and women answering in antiphons-- "The indescribable, Here it is done; The ever-womanly Beckons us on!" Then shall Mary--the fulfilled, ennobled womanhood--sing her Magnificat; standing to receive from the Lord, and to give the living word to the nations: "My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Saviour. For He hath looked upon the low estate of His handmaiden; For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed, For He that is mighty hath done to me great things; And holy is His name. And His mercy is unto generations and generations." The coming new version of the Old Testament gives us, we are told, among other more perfect renderings, this one, which fitly utters charge and promise: "The Lord gave the word; Great was the company Of those That published it." "The Lord giveth the word; And the women that bring Glad tidings Are a great host." ADELINE D.T. WHITNEY. Mr. BLAIR. Mr. President, before the vote is taken I desire to say but a word. Early in the session I had the opportunity of addressing the Senate upon the general merits of the question. I said then all that I cared to say; but I wish to remind the Senate before the vote is taken that the question to be decided is not whether upon the whole the suffrage should be extended to women, but whether in the proper arena for the amendment of the Constitution ordained by the Constitution itself one-third of the American people shall have the opportunity to be heard in the discussion of such a proposed amendment--whether they shall have the opportunity of the exercise of the first right of republican government and of the American and of any free citizen, the submission to the popular tribunal, which has alone the power to decide the question whether on the whole, upon a comparison of the arguments pro and con bearing one way and the other upon this great subject, the American people will extend the suffrage to those who are now deprived of it.