an be had upon the question, submitted upon its own merits,
in the Senate and House of Representatives, both the friends and
opponents of the measure here, as in Great Britain when John
Stuart Mill's proposition was first voted upon in Parliament,
will be surprised at the revelation of its real strength.

Mrs. CAROLINE H. DALL writes: It mitigates my regret in declining
your invitation to remember that these are not the dark days of
the cause.

Senator FOWLER, of Tenn., writes: It is not possible that the
people who have so enlarged the boundaries of the political
rights of another race just emerged from slavery, will fail to
recognize the claims of the women of the United States to equal
rights in all the relations of life.

WM. H. SYLVIS says: I am in favor of universal suffrage,
universal amnesty, and universal liberty.

ABBY HOPPER GIBBONS says: My father, Isaac T. Hopper, was an
advocate for woman and her work, he believed in her thoroughly.
His life long he was associated with many of the best women of
his day. With the help of good men, we shall ere long stand side
by side with ballot in hand.

PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS: If women are the only unrecognized class as
a part of the people, then woe to the nation! for there will be
no noble mothers; frivolity, folly, and madness will seize them,
for all inverted action of the faculties becomes intense in just
the ratio of its earnestness.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE writes: I am deeply interested in the work,
and hopeful that a broader sphere is opening for woman, that as a
class they may be trained in early life more as men are in
education and business.

Gen. OLIVER O. HOWARD answers: Please express to the Committee my
thanks for the invitation. I should be pleased to accept, but a
lecture engagement in the West will compel me to be absent from
the city.

JAMES M. SCOVILL, of New Jersey, says: I deeply desire to come.
Go on in your great work. The Convention tells on the public
mind.

GERRIT SMITH replies: I thank you for your invitation, though it
is not in my power to attend the Convention. God hasten the day
when the civil and political rights of woman shall be admitted to
be equal to those of man.

SIMEON CORLEY, M.C., of South Carolina, writes: Having been an