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country.
The Queen applauds Mrs. Woodhull's commendable and publicly expressed
gratitude to Mr. Cornelius Vanderbuilt, who aided and abetted her bold
campaign for the presidency. The Queen _knows little_ of Mrs. Woodhull's
background, and wonders if the Woodhull and Vanderbuilt families have been
intimate for _many years_.
The Queen has learned that Mrs. Woodhull did not rely solely upon Mr.
Vanderbuilt for financial support for her campaign, but also engaged in active
enterprise in partnership with her sister, Miss Tennessee Claflin, first as
New York stockbrokers and later as the publishers of _Woodhull and Claflin's




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Weekly_. The Queen admires such industrious behavior and has _very often_
encouraged it in her subjects! The Queen has been informed that a particular
issue of _Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly_ printed two days before the
presidential election sold for forty dollars per copy. The Queen is most
impressed that Americans are so eager to read, and she would very much like to
know more about the contents of the _Weekly_.
Nevertheless, the Queen is well aware that it requires more than _mere
money_ to emerge victorious in a political campaign, having observed many such
campaigns within her realm. Mrs. Woodhull may be surprised to learn that the
Queen knows that, as early as 1870, she enjoyed the support of Congressman
Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts who arranged for her to address the House
Judiciary Committee.
It was certainly at this pivotal moment, when Mrs. Woodhull urged
Congress to legalize women's suffrage under the Fourteenth Amendment (a speech
for which, the Queen understands, the National Woman Suffrage Association
delayed the start of their convention in Washington, D.C.), that Mrs.
Woodhull's political career became of such interest to the British Prime
Minister. The Queen commends Mrs. Woodhull on her successful efforts, since it
is surely the woman's vote which has helped to place her so securely in
office! The Queen is also sure that Mrs. Woodhull will agree that the Queen's
own female subjects currently have all the rights and privileges they require
and are in _ no need_ of suffrage like their distant sisters across the sea.
Although former President Grant cost Her Majesty's Government $15.5
million in the settlement of the _ Alabama_ incident (and Mrs. Woodhull may be
assured that no one had informed the Queen that the British weren't supposed
to sell ships to the Confederates during the American Civil War, much less
that there was evidently a precise difference between Confederate rebels and
Cuban belligerents, or Cuban rebels and Confederate belligerents), he was
evidently nevertheless a rather popular president within his own country
(leading the Queen to believe that the American people still harbor some
resentment from 1812).
It has been implied within Her Majesty's Government that President
Grant may well have won re-election, had not Mr. Greeley and Mr. Sumner been
successful in their advocacy of an amendment to limit the president to one
term. Perhaps Black Friday and the Santo Domingo affair contributed to the