ied by letter for a hearing in the
Convention. Her letter was presented to the Convention by the
President, ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, read by the clerk in a
loud, clear voice, received a most respectful and enthusiastic
hearing, and was referred to the Committee on Resolutions.

As our readers would, no doubt, like to know what radical
doctrines the Democratic party are now sufficiently developed to
applaud, we give the letter below. Let no one say that our
devotion to the education of this party for the last four years
has been in vain:

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, 37 PARK ROW,}
ROOM 20, NEW YORK, July 4, 1868. }

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, MRS. HORACE GREELEY,} _Central Com._
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ABBY HOPPER GIBBONS, }

_To the President and Members of the National Democratic
Convention_:

GENTLEMEN:--I address you by letter to ask the privilege of
appearing before you during the sittings of this Convention, to
demand the enfranchisement of the women of America, the only
class of citizens wholly unrepresented in the Government, the
only class (not guilty of crime) taxed without representation,
tried without a jury of their peers, governed without their
consent. And yet in this class are found many of your most noble,
virtuous, law-abiding citizens, who possess all the requisite
qualifications of voters. Women have property and education. We
are not "idiots, lunatics, paupers, criminals, rebels," nor do we
"bet on elections." We lack, according to your constitutions, but
one qualification--that of sex--which is insurmountable, and,
therefore, equivalent to a deprivation of the suffrage; in other
words, the "tyranny of taxation without representation."

We desire to lay before you this violation of the great
fundamental principle of our Government for your serious
consideration, knowing that minorities can be moved by principles
as majorities are only by votes. Hence we look to you for the
initiative step in the redress of our grievances.

The party in power have not only failed to heed our innumerable
petitions, asking the right of suffrage, poured into Congress and
State Legislatures, but they have submitted a proposition to the
several States to insert the word "male