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TO J. H, GEAHAM, ESQ. 57
could defend herself with singidar volubility,
to the great surprise and perhaps disappointment
of those who affect to rail at female
eloquence.
I refer you to the work itself for particulars—you
will find it contained in the thirtyninth
number.
I quote the case to prove the
iUiberaHty of those declaimers of [against 1]
woman's natural right, and to prove that
Providence, although in that one instance he
unaccountably forgot to give the woman a
tongue, did not fail supplying her with the
means of being heard.
Some malevolent wit
may probably with more flippancy than
discretion say that nature did once, in pity
for mankind, make a woman without a
tongue; but that her natural inclination for
talking quickened her invention, and she
learned to speak.—I adduce this as an
instance to prove woman's birthright, the
decree of nature, that, born without a tongue,
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