[Autograph: 

  Very Cordially
  & Truly
  S.C.  Pomeroy]

A few days later George W. Julian, of Indiana, offered a similar amendment in the House of Representatives, as follows:  “The right of suffrage in the United States shall be based upon citizenship, and shall be regulated by Congress; and all citizens of the United States, whether native or naturalized, shall enjoy this right equally, without any distinction or discrimination whatever founded on sex.”

[Autograph:  Geo W. Julian]

The last of December Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Julian introduced bills to enfranchise women in the District of Columbia, the latter including also the women in the Territories.  A review of the situation in The Revolution of December 31, said: 

In our political opinions, we have been grossly misunderstood and misrepresented.  There never was a time, even in the re-election of Lincoln, when to differ from the leading party was considered more inane and treasonable.  Because we made a higher demand than either Republicans or Abolitionists, they in self-defense revenged themselves by calling us Democrats; just as the church at the time of its apathy on the slavery question revenged the goadings of Abolitionists by calling them “infidels.”  If claiming the right of suffrage for every citizen, male and female, black and white, a platform far above that occupied by Republicans or Abolitionists today, is to be a Democrat, then we glory in the name, but we have not so understood the policy of modern Democracy.  Though The Revolution and its founders may have been open to criticism in many respects, all admit that we have galvanized the people into life and slumbering friends to action on this question.

[Footnote 46:  On the Sunday before, the two ladies were invited to breakfast at the home of Mr. Melliss, with the president of the National Labor Union and a number of prominent men from Wall street, to talk over their prospects in the convention.]

[Footnote 47:  Dr. Clemence Lozier and Mrs. Eleanor Kirk went to Moyamensing prison to see the unfortunate girl.  In passing the different cells they noticed many women prisoners and one of the ladies asked the inspector if he could give any idea of the cause of the downfall of these women.  “Yes,” he replied, “faith in men.”]

CHAPTER XIX.

AMENDMENT XV—­FOUNDING OF NATIONAL SOCIETY.

1869.

Notwithstanding the protests and petitions of the women, the Fourteenth Amendment had been formally declared ratified July 28, 1868, the word “male” being thereby three times branded on the Constitution.  In the resolutions of Senator Pomeroy and Mr. Julian, however, they found new hope and fresh courage.  They had learned that the Federal Constitution could be so amended as to enfranchise a million men who but yesterday were plantation slaves.  Here, then,