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because no women voted, and therefore there was no inequality. We once knew a little boy who had a regiment of tin soldiers, one of which had its head knocked off; he at once decapitated the ninety-niue others that there might be no inequality between them. The argument appears to us somewhat similar:-because it is expedient that no woman should feel her" disabilities" as an insult, therefore all women should be disabled alike. In France the penalty of civil death is sometimes pronounced for state crimes; it consists in deprivation of voting, inability to hold office, &c. A parallel sentence is pronounced in England, simply because the offender is a woman.