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History of Woman Suffrage, II, pp. 322-324. One of Thaddeus Stevens' drafts read: "If any State shall disfranchise any of its citizens on account of color, all that class shall be counted out of the basis of representation." Then the question arose whether or not disfranchising Negro women would carry this penalty and the result was a rewording which struck out "color" and added "male."
This would seem to be absurd; but the writer evidently intended to convey the idea that there was something mysterious about the number of the topes. This seems to be the meaning. The bodies of the monks are all burned. Hardy's E. M., pp. 322-324.
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