d justice and
simple truth. Her wit, too, though it gleams out softly and
playfully, illuminates her subject as the keener, sharper light
of satire never could illuminate it. She is always reasonable,
gracious, and judicious. She never strives for effect, and is too
conscientious to be sensational, yet no speaker among the younger
women of this movement makes more telling points--no one knows so
well every foot of the broad field of argument. In her practiced
hand every weapon is ready on the instant, whether drawn from the
armories of Scripture, history, literature, or politics. She
reviewed the history of this movement from the beginning, paying
warm tribute to the memory of its early advocates. She proved
that for centuries the discontented, the indignant protest in the
souls of women, which has culminated in this movement, has formed
an element which has been secretly surging and seething under the
surface of society. These were no new wrongs or needs of ours,
she said; the women of the past, of all ages, had felt them; we
are only giving voice to them.

A most eloquent letter from Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose was read,
indorsing the Convention; also one from William Lloyd Garrison.
Mrs. Griffing, of Washington, spoke with remarkable earnestness
and fervor, and was followed by Mrs. Hathaway, of Boston. This
lady said: "They say the majority shall rule. Well, there are,
east of the Alleghanies, 400,000 more women than men. So the
minority rule us." Upon the whole, I was quite willing to have
this body of women orators and debaters compared with either of
the great legislative bodies who meet over in yonder great marble
temple of wisdom, eloquence, logic, and law.

Mrs. Starrett, of Kansas, a bright, ruddy, rosy woman, made a
good, practical speech on the influence of the franchise upon the
domestic life of women.

Mrs. Butler, of Vineland, N. J., made one of the most charming
and womanly speeches, or talks, of the Convention, recounting her
experience as one of the gallant band of women who, at the late
fall elections, made an imposing demonstration at the polls in
her lively and progressive town. Fearful threats had reached them
of insult and violence from rough boys and men; but they met with
absolutely nothing of the kind, though they