Nevada and Montana declared for suffrage before the war was four months old, and Denmark enfranchised its women before the year was out.

General Bolivar began the great work himself by enfranchising his own slaves, to the number of between seven and eight hundred.

Indeed, it may easily be seen that the principles on which one portion of the billthat which enfranchised new classes of voterswas framed were such as, in shrewd hands, might easily be adduced as arguments in favor of the necessity of reconsideration of the question from time to time.

According to Cicero it enfranchised all Italy except Cisalpine Gaul.

According to Gellius it enfranchised all Latium, by which he must mean to include all the Latin colonies.

State after State in the North had voted against enfranchising the colored man in their midst.

He had gone so far as to say that the wit of man could not have devised a better representative system than that which Lord John Russell, in the previous session, had attempted to alter by proposing to enfranchise Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham.

It enfranchised any citizen of an allied town who at the date of the law was dwelling in Italy, and made a declaration to the praetor within sixty days.

He was an intolerant indifferentist; ready to enfranchise the Papists, but more ready to massacre them.

It was now the moment to enfranchise the people and give that security to private property which Magna Charta had given to personal liberty."

But a strong sultan was just as formidable to the Suliots as a strong pasha, so they swelled their ranks by enfranchising their peasant-serfs, and made common cause with their old enemy in his adversity.

More recently, men closely connected with the commercial classes had become cabinet ministers, one of whom had even subsequently sacrificed office to his feeling of the propriety of enfranchising a single town, Birmingham.

"That will never do," said another, "it would enfranchise wenches."

The Republican party was trembling in the balance, because it feared that it could not hold its position, until it should have secured by legislation to the Government what it had gained at the point of the sword, and when the nation declared its purpose to enfranchise the negro it was a political necessity.

In short, the rich Italians would feel the need of the franchise as strongly as the old plebeians had felt it, and all the more strongly because the Romans had not only ceased to enfranchise whole communities, but were chary of giving the citizenship even to individuals.

A Conciliation Committee was formed of sixty members from all parties, who prepared a bill that would enfranchise only women householders, those who already had possessed the municipal franchise since 1869.