Now you may not know this"-Lincoln shut his eyes-"but when I first ran for the Illinois legislature, I came out, more or less, for female suffrage; not exactly the most popular position to take back then, and in that part of the world." "It is still not the most popular issue anywhere in the world, thank God." "Well, Mrs. Frémont comes to see me late at night-right off the cars from the West-and threatens me to my face with an uprising against the government, led by the Frémonts and their radical friends. So I called her, in the nicest way, I thought, 'Quite a lady politician,' and she was madder than a wet hen and went and told everyone that I'd threatened her!" Lincoln sighed. "Is it possible that female suffrage may not be the answer to every human problem?
( Gore Vidal )
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