A petition of seven hundred women of Pittsburgh, Pa., to Congress in behalf of the Indians gave his masculine prejudices a great shock.

"This is, in our opinion," he declared, "an uncalled for interference, though made with holiest intentions.

We should be sorry to have this practice become general.

There would then be no question agitated in Congress without eliciting the informal and contrariant opinions of the softer sex." This top-lofty sentiment accorded well with the customary assumption and swagger of one of the lords of creation.

For the young reformer was evidently a firm believer in the divine right of his sex to rule in the world of politics.