The women of Mormondom must force Claggett and Congress to take this back. It is such as he who spoke, and they who applauded, who have written "in letters that blister as they fall the word 'bastard' across the branded brows of an army of little children," and the mothers of those dear little branded ones must appeal to the wives and mothers of America, to take that curse of "bastard" from their innocent brows. They must ask those noble women everywhere in America, who are earnestly battling for their own rights, and especially the supreme right of woman to settle the marriage question; and the answer to their mighty prayer shall come back to them from a million women, throughout the land. The women of America, who lead the van of the new civilization, shall cry to Congress and the nation in behalf of their Mormon sisters, with voices that will not be hushed, till justice be done. Indeed, already have they done this, so far as the suffrage is concerned; and it is due to them alone, under Providence, that the women of Utah have not been disfranchised. This is best brought home to the reader by reference to the following, from the report of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, read at the Opera House, Detroit, Mich., October 13, 1874: "During the session of Congress we spent some time in the capital, proposing to work for the enfranchisement of the women of the District of Columbia and of the territories; but finding that Congress was more likely to disfranchise the women who already possessed this right, than to enfranchise others, our efforts were used, as far as possible, to prevent this backward step. "Had we been a voter, we might have had less trouble to convince some of our friends in this affair. "Several bills were introduced, anyone of which, if it became a law, would have disfranchised the women of Utah. "The McKee bill had been referred to the House Committee on Territories. While the subject was under discussion in the committee, by invitation of the members, on two occasions, we stated our views. One of the members, before the committee convened, gave his reason for favoring the passage of the bill. "'The woman's vote sustains polygamy,' said he, 'and to destroy that, I would take the right of suffrage from every woman in the territory.' "'Would it do that?' we inquired. "'I think it would.' "'Did polygamy exist in the territory before the women voted?' "'Oh! yes.' "'Have they ever had the privilege of voting against it?' "'No; that has never been made an issue; but they voted to send a polygamist to Congress.' "'Did any man vote for him?' "'Yes, more than eleven thousand men, and ten thousand women.' "'How many voted for the opposing candidate?' "'Something less than two thousand men and women together.' "'You intend to disfranchise the men who voted for this man?' we asked.