The mechanical echo in public thus
developed into an opinion in private. My own political experience
has since demonstrated to me that this is a phenomenon very common
among men.
The impulse generated at that meeting gradually spread all over the
State. We--the leaders of the Women's Movement--did not rest until
we had exacted the same pledge from all the candidates of both
parties; and the nearer it drew towards election-day, the more
prominence was given, in the public meetings, to the illustration
and discussion of the subject. Our State went for Lincoln by a
majority of 2763 (as you will find by consulting the "Tribune
Almanac"), and Mr. Wrangle was elected to Congress, having received
a hundred and forty-two more votes than his opponent. Mr. Tumbrill
has always attributed his defeat to his want of courage in not
taking up at once the glove which Selina Whiston threw down.
I think I have said enough to make it clear how the State of
Atlantic came to be the first to grant equal civil and political
rights to women.
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