I hav thought over the thing industriously, and should be happy to floor
miself, and all mi energys at yure feet in enny cauze that i thought waz
for your happiness and final suckcess.
I am in favour ov wimmin, and they kan own me at enny moment bi asking
for me or dropping me a letter.
I owe them mi existence, mi fust nourishment, and mi fust virtews.
If i am ever saved it will be the result ov woman’s care and influence,
at a time when i want worth saving.
Woman haz dun for me what no man could or would do.
But, Jemima, Eve, yure gratist grandmother, committed a mistake, a good
deal bigger than the one which yu are anxious tew commit, but thare iz a
remote similarity in the mistakes.
She wanted tew kno and hav a hand in awl that waz a going on, and the
Devil offered tew teach her, and yu hav heard what the result waz.
Mi advise tew yu iz tew stay right whare yu are, yu hav a power now that
never kan be less if yu hold on to it, but if yu spit on yure hands tew
git a better holt yu may lose yure grip entirely.
When yu begin tew vote yu hav got tew learn how tew wrangle, tew jaw
back, tew intrigue, and bet yure stamps on the election, and if yu vote
contrary tew yure husband thare will be a muss in the family, and if he
votes kontrary tew yu there will be a bigger muss in the family.
Voting iz a mere negatiff power ennyhow. If a vote aint hove right it iz
wuss than no vote, and what assurance hav yu tew offer that yu are going
tew vote right? Yu hav more sensitiveness than the men have, and
konsequently more prejudices, yu hav got full az mutch vanity and a heap
more stubborness.
Thare iz more than haff the votes hove now without judgement or
influenced bi others.
If yu git hold ov the ballot box what reformashuns dew yu propose?
I hav never saw yure platform.
Yu will vote against whiskee, i hope, and tobbacco, and whiskers, and
club rooms, and trotting hosses, and pitching cents, and staying out
late nights, and wearing pattent leather boots, two sizes too small, and
lots ov this kind ov male iniquity, but what are yu going tu vote _for_?
Yu will hav tew vote agin trials bi jury, and dispoze ov them or else yu
will hav tew sit on jurys, and will this be yure best style?--eight men
and four wimmin locked up in a jury room all night together, on bred and
water, with yure husbands peeking thru the key holes, tew see how the
verdik is a going.
Yu will hav tew vote agin a poll tax, and git rid ov poll taxes, or, if
yu are poor, yu will hav tew work yure tax out on the road, alongside ov
sum rum drinking and tobbaco chawing wretch, who will take grate pains
tew chaw, and sware, tew show hiz superiorite tew yu.
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