That question I leave untouched, contenting myself with the remark, that it is obviously the great question of the future,--at least one of the great questions,--which will be easily settled, whenever the women in any considerable proportion insist that it shall be settled.
Sumner acknowledges the significance of women's suffrage as a future issue that will be resolved when women demand it.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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