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I have been with them ever since, and have never seen any reason to go back from the pledge then given.
Strangely, as it then seemed to me, the arguments which I had stored up in my mind against the political enfranchisement of women were really so many reasons in its favor.
All that I had felt regarding the sacredness and importance of the woman's part in private life now appeared to me equally applicable to the part which she should bear in public life.
One of the comforts which I found in the new association was the relief which it afforded me from a sense of isolation and eccentricity.
For years past I had felt strongly impelled to lend my voice to the convictions of my heart.
I had done this in a way, from time to time, always with the feeling that my course in so doing was held to call for apology and explanation by the men and women with whose opinions I had hitherto been familiar.
I now found a sphere of action in which this mode of expression no longer appeared singular or eccentric, but simple, natural, and, under the circumstances, inevitable.
In the little band of workers which I had joined, I was soon called upon to perform yeoman's service.
I was expected to attend meetings and to address audiences, at first in the neighborhood of Boston, afterwards in many remote places, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis.
Among those
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