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Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

CHAPTER XVIII
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Grant and Lincoln, on a higher ledge of the rocks, were complacently observing the gambols of the rest.
California was on the eve of an important election, and John A.Bingham of Ohio and Senator Cole were stumping the State for the Republican party.

At several points we had the use of their great tents for our audiences, and of such of their able arguments as applied to woman.

As Mr.Bingham's great speech was on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, every principle he laid down literally enfranchised the women of the nation.

I met the Ohio statesman one morning at breakfast, after hearing him the night before.

I told him his logic must compel him to advocate woman suffrage.


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