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 the United States was not the spontaneous uprising of the sex against wrong, but an artificial agitation, the chief authors of which were ladies anxious to take part in public life.

The case of women is not that of an unenfranchised class, the interest of which is distinct from that of the enfranchised. The great mass of them are completely identified in interest with their husbands, while even those who are not married can hardly be said to form a class, or to have any common interest, other than mere sex, which is liable to be unfairly affected by class legislation. There is, therefore, no reason why Parliament should not do justice in any practical question relative to the rights of women which may be brought before it, as it has already done justice in several such questions, without invoking upon itself the coercion of Female Suffrage. LONDON : R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BREAD STREET HILL.