Sir, I insist upon it that, in deference to this committee, in deference to the fact that it needs this sort of regimen and medicine, this whole subject should be so referred." This gives a very fair idea of the character of the arguments produced by our opponents, from the inauguration of the movement.

But, as there are no arguments in a republican government in favor of an aristocracy of sex, ridicule was really the only available weapon.

After declaring "that no just government can be formed without the consent of the governed," "that taxation without representation is tyranny," it is difficult to see on what basis one-half the people are disfranchised..