If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.