women's-rights

Updated: July 16, 2025

What will future philosophers care how many bushels of wheat are raised in Minnesota, or car-loads of corn brought from Illinois, or hogs slaughtered in Chicago, or yards of cloth woven in Lowell, or cases of goods packed in New York, or bales of carpets manufactured in Philadelphia, or pounds of cotton exported from New Orleans, or meetings of railway presidents at Cincinnati to pool the profits of their monopolies, or women's-rights conventions held in Boston, or schemes of speculators ventilated in the lobbies of Washington, or stock-jobbing and gambling operations take place in every large city of the country, compared with the mighty marshalling of forces on the banks of the Potomac, at the call of patriotism, to preserve the life of the republic?

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 05 : The Middle Ages