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9163. WOMEN, Government and.—

However nature may by mental or physical
disqualifications have marked infants and the
weaker sex for the protection, rather than the
direction of government, yet among the men
who either pay or fight for their country, no
line of right can be drawn.—
To John H. Pleasants. Washington ed. vii, 345. Ford ed., x, 303.
(M. 1824)