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

Lastly Great Britain has enfranchised its women, and surely the Congress of the United States will not lag behind the Mother of Parliaments!

The peculiarity in attainment of political democracy for women has lain in the fact that while for men economic freedom invariably preceded political enfranchisement, in the case of women the conferring of the vote in no single case was related to the stage which the enfranchised group had attained in the matter of economic independence.

Serfdom gave way to the wage system before democracy developed for men, and the colored man was emancipated before he was enfranchised.

In the United States, the movement, regarded rather humorously at first, became a matter of national weight and seriousness when in 1910 the great State of California enfranchised its women, half a million of them.

The enfranchised quill, that has plodded all the morning among the cart-rucks of figures and cyphers, frisks and curvets so at its ease over the flowery carpet-ground of a midnight dissertation.

The result of it was, that a considerable number of slaves came in and were enfranchised.

It appears by a letter from Columbia, dated 17th February 1822, about seven months after emancipation had commenced, addressed to James Stephen, Esq. of London, and since made public, "that the slaves were all then peaceably at work throughout the republic, as well as the newly enfranchised and those originally free."

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.

[Footnote 222: Elizabeth enfranchised no fewer than sixty-two in the course of her reign, "a very large proportion of them petty boroughs, evidently under the influence of the crown or the peerage.

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

According to Cicero it enfranchised all Italy except Cisalpine Gaul.

According to Appian it enfranchised all the Italians still faithful.

In any case those enfranchised were not to be enrolled in the old tribes lest they should swamp them by their votes, but in eight new ones, which were to vote only after the others.

But however liberal these ameliorations might appear to be, it was difficult for the nobles not only to concede privileges equal to those emanating from the throne, but also to ensure equal protection to those they thus enfranchised.

Everywhere, however, cities became more or less completely enfranchised, though some more rapidly than others.

The case was the same in Flanders, where the towns of Ghent (Fig. 36), of Bruges, of Ypres, after being enfranchised but a short time developed with great rapidity.

In Wyoming, for instance, by a Democratic legislature, the women were enfranchised.

As Mr. Bingham's great speech was on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, every principle he laid down literally enfranchised the women of the nation.

Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Bright felt that, as married women were the greatest sufferers under the law, they should be the first rather than the last to be enfranchised.

They claimed that, if "spinsters and widows" were enfranchised, they would be an added power to secure to married women their rights.

The French government and its agents despise the laws of war hitherto observed; they consider them as a sort of aristocratie militaire, and they pretend, on the same principle, to be enfranchised from the law of nations.

The French government and its agents despise the laws of war hitherto observed; they consider them as a sort of aristocratie militaire, and they pretend, on the same principle, to be enfranchised from the law of nations.

Cautious, hint to any captive You have passed enfranchised feet!

From that vessel and all that concerned it we were virtually enfranchised from that momentdismissed to destruction, so to speak, by fire or flood, or rescue from beyond, as the case might be, to life or death, as God willedfor the ship's mission was accomplished.