nt, was very apparent, and sometimes forms of expression
betrayed a little unnecessary partisan preference; but there was
not one who bore any part in the long and intensely exciting
discussions, who could be justly charged with any wish, however
remote, to hold personal prejudice or party preference above
principle and religious regard to justice and right. There was
one feature in the convention that we greatly deplore, and that
was an impatience, not only with the audience, but with some on
the platform whenever any man arose to speak. We must not forget
that men have sensibilities as well as women, and that our
strongest hold to-day on the public mind is the fact that men of
eloquence and power on both continents are pleading for our
rights. While we ask justice for ourselves, let us at least be
just to the noble men who advocate our cause. It is certainly
generous in them to come to our platforms, to help us maintain
our rights, and share the ridicule that attends every step of
progress, and it is clearly our duty to defend their rights, at
least when speaking in our behalf.

We had a brief interview with Senator Roscoe Conkling. We gave
him a petition signed by 400 ladies of Onondaga County, and urged
him to make some wise remarks on the subject of woman's suffrage
when he presented it. We find all the New York women are sending
their petitions to Senator Pomeroy. He seems to be immensely
popular just now. We think our own Senators need some education
in this direction. It would be well for the petitions of the
several States to be placed in the hands of their respective
Senators, that thus the attention of all of them might be called
to the important subject. It is plain to see that Mr. Conkling is
revolving this whole question in his mind. His greatest fear is
that coarse and ignorant women would crowd the polls and keep the
better class away.

Parker Pillsbury's speech on "The Mortality of Nations," was one
of the best efforts of his life, and as grand an argument on the
whole question of Republican government as was ever made on the
woman suffrage platform. Although he had been one of the earliest
and most enthusiastic Abolitionists, yet the enfranchisement of
woman had always in his mind seemed of equal importance to that
of