Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
There is not a man in the land who would dare to take
up arms against a woman. Such a dernier resort on the part of the
women would be truly laughable, but the matter would cease to be
a joke, if General Susan B. Anthony, in command of a bloomer
regiment, should march into the halls of congress, armed
_cap-a-pie_, and demand the passage of a law in behalf of woman
suffrage, or the alternative of the general cleaning out of the
whole body. There is no immediate prospect of such an event, but
"hell hath no furies like a woman scorned." Long and loud have
been the appeals of the fair sex for recognition at the
ballot-box. With that faithful zeal so truly characteristic of
her sex, she has each time, for many years in the history of this
country, presented herself before the curious gaze of our
national conventions, asking, with no little stress of argument,
for a woman's plank in the platforms. If she has been heard at
all in the framed resolutions of the parties, the feeling
prevailing in the conventions has been rather to pacify and put
her off, than to grant her request through motives of political
policy. If perseverance is to be awarded, the agitators of the
woman question will yet carry off the prize they seek. Death
alone can silence such women as Susan B. Anthony and Cady
Stanton, and their teachings will live after them and unite
others of their sex into strong bands of sisterhood in a common
cause. It is safe to say, if events march on in the same
direction they have since the calling of the first National
Woman's Convention, another centennial will see woman in the
halls of legislation throughout the land, and so far as we are
concerned we have no objection, so long as she behaves
herself.--[St. Louis _Dispatch_, July 13.
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