And yet again, Brownson says:
"The ruin of our republic will come, if at all, not from those usually looked upon as the 'dangerous classes,' who are chiefly troublesome to the police; but from the so-accounted better classes, the business class, who seek, and but too successfully, to convert the government into an agency for the promotion of their private interests.
We can see nothing that either the country or the women themselves would gain by the introduction of female suffrage and eligibility." ("The Woman Question," pt 2, Brownson's Quarterly Review, 1873)