It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!