Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
How would the honorable Senator from Massachusetts face the
recent meeting of the Equal Rights Society in Philadelphia? How
would he answer the potent arguments which were offered there and
which challenge an answer even from the Senate of the United
States, when made by women of the highest intellect, perhaps, on
the planet, and women who are determined, knowing their rights,
to maintain them and to secure them? I ask honorable Senators of
his faith how they are to answer those ladies there? If this is
refused, how are Senators to answer, especially those who
recognize the onward force of this movement, who are up to the
tendencies of the times, who desire to keep themselves in front
of the great army of humanity which is marching forward just as
certainly to universal suffrage as to universal manhood suffrage.
Therefore, Mr. President, I offer this amendment and ask for the
yeas and nays upon it.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Mr. ANTHONY: I move that the Senate do now adjourn. ["Oh, no!"]
Mr. WILSON: I hope not.
The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: The motion is not debatable and must be
put unless withdrawn.
The motion was agreed to; and the Senate adjourned.
SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.
IN SENATE, TUESDAY, _Dec. 11, 1866_.
The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: If there be no further morning
business, and no motion is interposed, the chair, although the
morning hour has not expired, will call up the unfinished
business, which is the bill (S, No. 1) to regulate the elective
franchise in the District of Columbia, the pending question being
on the amendment of the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Cowan] to
strike out the word "male" before the word "person" in the second
line of the first section of the amendment, reported by the
Committee on the District of Columbia as a substitute for the
original bill.
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