either a statesman or a doctor. Prerogative of the States or of the Union? I vote for the prerogative of the Union, since the States belong to the Union, but not the Union to the States. President or legislature? Away with the servant who rules his master! Well, these are great "complex" "political" questions, and yet as simple as a question of domestic economy. Now if you examine the minor questions of legislation, in the affairs of the Union, the State, the county, you will be still less able to find one over which you can long remain in doubt, on which side is sense Or nonsense, right or wrong. But one thing I will admit: We women shall vote differently upon many questions than the men, just because they, for thousands of years, have become habituated to force and ‘wrong, and still too frequently mistake the one for reason and the other for right.
I have not met very many men in my life, but sometimes I think that the majority of them must be fools. Twice two is four, that is, acording to the masculine arithmetic. But when a woman multiplies, they expect the result to be five. They think a woman is unable to distinguish black from white, straight from crooked, big from little, warm from cold, and yet they expect us to be able at once to select from them the best, the noblest, the cleverest, the greatest, the most lovable, and of course, each one expects himself to be that one. Is that anything but crazy? But even if they had faith in our correct judgment on other things than their own amiability,
