Mr.Phillips at once consented to devote five hundred dollars from the "Jackson Fund" to commence the work.

Miss Anthony and I spent all our Christmas holidays in writing letters and addressing appeals and petitions to every part of the country, and, before the close of the session of 1865-66, petitions with ten thousand signatures were poured into Congress.
One of my letters was as follows: "_To the Editor of the Standard_: "Sir: Mr.Broomall of Pennsylvania, Mr.Schenck of Ohio, Mr.
Jenckes of Rhode Island, and Mr.Stevens of Pennsylvania, have each a resolution before Congress to amend the Constitution.
"Article First, Section Second, reads thus: 'Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers.' "Mr.Broomall proposes to amend by saying, 'male electors'; Mr.
Schenck,'male citizens'; Mr.Jenckes, 'male citizens'; Mr.Stevens, 'male voters,' as, in process of time, women may be made 'legal voters' in the several States, and would then meet that requirement of the Constitution.

But those urged by the other gentlemen, neither time, effort, nor State Constitutions could enable us to meet, unless, by a liberal interpretation of the amendment, a coat of mail to be worn at the polls might be judged all-sufficient.

Mr.
Jenckes and Mr.Schenck, in their bills, have the grace not to say a word about taxes, remembering, perhaps, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny.' But Mr.Broomall, though unwilling that we should share in the honors of government, would fain secure us a place in its burdens; for, while he apportions representatives to "male electors" only, he admits "all the inhabitants" into the rights, privileges, and immunities of taxation.

Magnanimous M.C.! "I would call the attention of the women of the nation to the fact that, under the Federal Constitution, as it now exists, there is not one word that limits the right of suffrage to any privileged class.