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under the spell of his superior attraction your vision of domestic 

 quiet and order vanishes. The same fortune befalls female clerks 

 in stores, in banks, and in public offices, and teachers in all schools, 

 public and private. Almost invariably we lose our clerks, our 

 teachers, when they become wives ; almost invariably we do not 

 lose our clerks and teachers when they become husbands, never 

 except when they pass to a higher grade of service or to partner- 

 ship or an independent business. 



Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 

 And men below and saints above. 



Let us suppose that in this congressional district, under the 

 regime of full woman suffrage, some brilliant, educated, and 

 accomplished lady, whose eloquence on the stump in a political 

 campaign had electrified thousands of listening voters, had been 

 nominated and elected as representative to Congress. Among 

 the auditors whom she had fascinated might not one every- way 

 eligible man have been bold enough to make confession of a per- 

 sonal attachment before the eloquent pleadings of which this 

 young Jeanne d'Arc of politics should find herself compelled to 

 forego her ambition for public distinction, and take upon herself 

 the humbler but sweeter duty of consecration to a single man ? 

 The same accident would befall everywhere. Only the intelligent 

 and agreeable women would be popular, and only the popular 

 women would be candidates and elected. To put them in office 

 would of itself expose them everywhere to appropriation by men 

 brought by the occasions of public business into the circle of their 

 acquaintance. I dare not pursue further this dangerous argu- 

 ment. 



Will the female suffragists consent to a self-denying ordinance 

 that shall exclude from office ? I apprehend not. That is the 

 very thing they will not listen to with patience. They have 

 avowed that what they demand is that women shall have an 

 opportunity to try their hands at law-making and law-adminis- 

 tering, with a view of bettering both. They wish to vote in order 

 that they may vote for each other, and no way has been proposed 

 or seems practicable of making women electors that will not also 

 make them potentially the elected. 



As soon as the naturalized Irishmen in Portland became an 

 appreciable element of the voting population, they began to be 

 put upon the electoral tickets for municipal and State offices by 

 both parties. In Boston and in New York, where they compose 

 a majority of the voters, they get the majority of candidacies for 

 places under the city government. When by a heroic effort we 

 lifted a million of ignorant and degraded slaves to the rank of 

 citizens and electors, the immediate result was negro justices of 



