Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!