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If our sense of natural justice and our theory of government both agree, that the being who is to suffer under laws shall first personally a.s.sent to them, and that the being whose industry the government is to burden should have a voice in fixing the character and amount of that burden, then, while woman is admitted to the gallows, the jail, and the tax-list, _we have no right_ to debar her from the ballot-box.
Your Committee recommend the adoption of the following resolution:
_Resolved_, That the Judiciary Committee be instructed to report to the Senate, a bill to submit to the qualified electors at the next election for senators and representatives, an amendment to the Const.i.tution whereby the elective franchise shall be extended to the citizens of Ohio, without distinction of s.e.x.
J. D. CATTELL, H. CANFIELD.
