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are retained by the people; we believe that no
person can assure the consent of others without
delegated powers; we assert that woman has
never delegated her rights of self-government; we
assert that our half of citizens of the United States
are disfranchised and debased from receiving
that natural rights of self-government; and
therefore because this government has been false
to its underlying principles, because it has
not lived up to its own fundamental doctrines,
because it has been deaf to numerous prayers and
petition for freedom because numerous is still
disfranchised, we protest against the continual
celebration; we pronounce it a mockery and
deceit of all people and we call upon the assem-
bled nations to hearkue to our cry against
falsehood and oppression. We call upon the
nations of the world as witness of the falsehood
and because of this professed republican
government by its persistent non-recognition
of the great fundamental principle of equality
of right in self-government, as laid down