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Rh every right, yea, every privilege, and even force it upon us, to escape the danger of having the relationship reversed and of having masculine right dealt out to them by the feminine sword."

AGNES KOEHLER — I beg pardon, but has the gentleman who reminded us of the military duty, been in the war himself?

BACKFUSS — Certainly, I have been through the entire campaign of the army of the Potomac.

A. KOEHLER — Were you also in the battle?

BACKFUSS — Not just in it. But I filled my position.

A. KOEHLER — What position did you hold? Were you a soldier or an officer?

BACKFUSS — Neither of the two. The loss of the right eye by a stone disabled me for service.

A. KOEHLER — ABH, no warrior, no thunderer of cannons then! And yet you retained your political rights? And yet you enlighten us as to our incapacity for equal rights because we are unfitted for war? But what position did you hold in the army? Perhaps my brother knows you, who was there also.

BACKFUSS — Well, I was a sutler.

(General merriment.)

MARGARETHE NIEVENHEIM — The sister of my washerwoman, whose husband was a corporal in the army of the Potomac, accompanied him fearlessly and faithfully, and went through the entire campaign, likewise in the capacity of — sutler, I