of the Fifteenth
Amendment will put an end to further agitation of the subject,
for a long time at least, and thus leave the government of the
country free to deal with its material interests, and with the
more pressing questions of public policy and administration which
will arise from time to time. We do not concur with those who
predict that the question of suffrage for women will speedily
demand public action or engross public attention, or that the
right of men to hold office without distinction of color or race,
will absorb any great degree of public time or public thought for
a long while to come. Until some decided practical advantage is
to be gained by a dominant political party, neither of these
questions will be pressed to a decision; and both of them have,
in our judgment, commanded more attention already than they will
soon command again. With the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment,
we may fairly look upon the suffrage agitation as at an end, for
the present political generation at all events; and that
consideration, of itself, affords a very powerful argument in
favor of its adoption."

Such is the conclusion of the New York _Times_. It is, too, the
belief, hope, and intention of a large number of party leaders,
both Republican and Democrat. But such reckon without their host.
They seem to have no idea with whom they have to deal. Woman may
not achieve her rights next year; may not vote for President in
1872. But if President Grant means by "let us have peace," an end
to the struggle for Woman Suffrage, he must pray to some other
than the God of Heaven, or the politicians of his party and
country; for the latter can't stop the agitation, and the former
won't. So President Pierce actually proclaimed peace with slavery
at his inauguration; but John Brown was already whetting his
sword, and the Almighty was forging his thunderbolts for that
vessel of wrath, long fitted for destruction, and the day of
peace is not even yet.

P. P.

PROVIDENCE, June 7, 1869.

PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS ON THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.--MY DEAR MRS.
STANTON: Nothing but the great crisis pending in our movement
would have drawn me from my retirement again into pu