And, dear sisters, in a country where women are degraded and brutalized, and where their exposed persons bleed under the lash where they are sold in the shambles of 'negro brokers' robbed of their heard earnings torn from their husbands, and forcibly plundered of their virtue and their offspring; surely in such a country, it is very natural that women should wish to know 'the reason why' especially when these outrages of blood and nameless horror are practiced in violation of the principles of our Constitution.