The sister of this man, Gray's great-aunt, had stood beside him on the platform when there was danger in it; and after the Negro was freed and enfranchised, she had devoted a long life to the cause of woman suffrage.

Even Thiers, the leading statesman of the Moderate party, asked for suffrage reform.

In principle, the Government had no absolute or permanent objections whatever to such reforms; the extension of the right of suffrage, and the incompatibility of certain functions with the office of Deputy, might and must be the natural and legitimate consequences of the upward movement of society and political liberty.

Although the poorest and most numerous class were not eligible for office, they had the right of suffrage, and could vote for the principal officers.

The plebs, or common people, had at first no political privileges whatever, not even the right of suffrage, and were not allowed to marry into patrician rank.

Originally the populus comprised strictly Roman citizens, those who belonged to the original tribes, and who had the right of suffrage.

In fact, to the Senate was intrusted the supreme administration of the Empire, although the source of power was technically and theoretically in the people, or those who had the right of suffrage; and as the people elected those magistrates whose offices entitled them to a seat in the Senate, the Senate was virtually elected by the people.

This friend of the people would give them spectacles and shows, largesses of corn,money, even,and extension of the suffrage, but not political power.

Mr. Asquith has handsomely recanted his hostility to women's suffrage, admitting that by their splendid services in the war women have worked out their own electoral salvation.

Kings make their poets whom themselves think fit, But 'tis your suffrage makes authentic wit.

"Happily, to all these affected terms, the public suffrage has been denied.

The American suffrage medley.

Do we know the intention of England with reference to Woman's Suffrage or Home Rule or Tariff Reform?

Joan refuses indignantly on the ground that his views and conduct are opposed to those which as a member of a Suffrage Society she is pledged to eradicate.

WRITING "THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE" XXI.

This fusion is accomplished in the secondary stage, for the continuous action of the State, by representation, technically; but, in its primary stage and original validity, by universal suffrage; for the characteristic trait of democracy is that in constituting this authority, which is social as opposed to personal freedom,personal freedom existing in its social form,it includes every unit of will, and gives to each equivalence.

Universal suffrage is the centre of the discussion, and the argument against it is twofold.

And, to begin with, is education, in the special sense, so important in the fundamental decisions which the suffrage makes?

What suffrage records, in opposition it may be to educated opinion, as such, is the mental state of the people, and their choices of the men they trust with the accomplishment of what is to be done.

The suffrage also has this invaluable advantage, that it brings about a substitution of the principle of persuasion for that of force, as the normal mode of dealing with important differences of view in State affairs; it is, in this respect, the corollary of free speech and the preservative of that great element of liberty, and progress under liberty, which is not otherwise well safe-guarded.

The suffrage does not undertake to rebuild from the foundations; the people are slow to remove old landmarks; but it does mean to modify and strengthen this inheritance of past ages for the better accomplishment of the ends for which society exists, and the better distribution among men of the goods which it secures.

The capital instance is property, especially in the form of wealth; and here belongs that objection to the suffrage, which was lightly passed over, to the effect that, since the social will has no limits, to constitute it by suffrage is to give the people control of what is not their own.

The capital instance is property, especially in the form of wealth; and here belongs that objection to the suffrage, which was lightly passed over, to the effect that, since the social will has no limits, to constitute it by suffrage is to give the people control of what is not their own.

In office a third time in 1866, he carried a democratic Reform Bill, giving household suffrage in boroughs and extending the county franchise.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, a French legislative assembly, elected now by universal suffrage.