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32 the latter probably inspired by a Knights of Labor version of Bliss's song. In the first of these the third verse and chorus urged:

In the other version the last verse and chorus exhorted:

Also seeking to influence affairs as the nineteenth century advanced were the militant ladies of the woman's-rights movement, who particularly urged woman suffrage but who also pressed temperance and other radical ideas upon reluctant male politicians, some of whom professed to fear that the vote would unsex womanhood. Or so it was said during the 1890 debates over the admission of Wyoming, which had had woman suffrage since 1869. Under the circumstances, the ladies turned to song to keep their spirits up and to plead their case. One song, sung to the tune of "Hold the Fort" and variously called "Columbia's Daughters" and "Hark! The Sound of Myriad Voices," appears in at least three different collections of suffrage songs and under the title "Columbia's Daughters" in a record album of several years ago. The first verse and the chorus of this song, which was written for the first annual meeting of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts, are enough to give its flavor: