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266 into the White House on a ship of war, if all the blood which he has shed, and shed for the most part unnecessarily, could be collected in Washington. Had he saved his country, as they call it, by a great thought, or any other peaceful deed of the intellect, he would probably be neglected or forgotten; but because he reeks with blood, because blood marks his path, and blood surges about his seat, it is that which gives him the true color to suit the taste of this barbaric masculine world, and to secure for him precedence above all other unbloody greatness.

If murder and bloodshed are thus still to mark the path of man's aspirations and glory, would we women not be justified in considering ourselves as the only true human beings? And yet our claims to human rights are to ‘be measured according to our ability to participate in the deeds of inhuman beings? Would the gentleman, who has just enlightened us concerning the duties of citizens, consider our claims to the rights of citizens as better grounded, if we possessed the proper qualifications for the amazons of the dictator Lopez, or the king of Dahomey? If we women were as intent upon handling murderous weapons, and shedding blood, as men are, and could, therefore, perform their vaunted "duties" as their equals, it seems to me the "lords of creation' would long for nothing more ardently than to see us Once more transformed into unarmed and unbloody beings. They would most willingly concede to us