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"Governments Derive their Just Powers from the Consent of the Governed"
The pickets endured intimidation and insult almost from the beginning, with little boys -- encouraged by older onlookers -- calling them names and spitting at them. Later, more threatening crowds gathered, incensed at the suffragists' "unpatriotic" messages. Starting on June 22, women began to be arrested, including a group of ten on July 4, 1917, who carried a banner quoting the Declaration of Independence, a scene drawn by political cartoonist Nina Allender. Geologist Helena Hill Weed, daughter of a former congressman and a vice-president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was among those sentenced to three days in District Jail. |