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THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS

all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Webster, Worcester and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, en- titled to vote and hold office.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women arg citizens; and no State has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. - Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitu- tions and laws of the several States is to-day null and void,'^ precisely as in every one against negroes.

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