cil, like the three Parcae or
Fates of a new dispensation--dignity and the ever-acceptable
grace of scholarly earnestness, intelligence, and beneficence
making them prominent--is assurance that the women of our
country, bereft of defenders, or injured by false ones, have
advocates equal to the great demands of their cause.

GRACE GREENWOOD.

EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 1869.

DEAR REVOLUTION:--We hear good accounts from all quarters of the
effect of the Woman's National Suffrage Convention. From the
numbers who called upon us, the courtesy of our rulers, the
marked attentions paid us in society, and the many enthusiastic
letters we daily receive, we are led to believe that woman's
suffrage is becoming very popular. As both the editor and
proprietor of _The Revolution_ are in the sere and yellow leaf,
the many attentions and compliments showered upon us are of
course from no personal considerations, but so many tributes of
respect to the ideas we represent; as such we gratefully accept
all that come to us, and thank our hosts of friends for the words
of good cheer we received in Washington. As we have never been
cast down with scorn and ridicule, we shall never be puffed up
with praise and admiration. In the future, as the past, the motto
of the good Abbe de Lamennais shall be ours, "Let the weal and
the woe of humanity be everything to us, their praise and their
blame of no effect." In conversation with some of the members we
found them quite jealous of the attentions Mr. Pomeroy was
receiving from the women of the nation. This will never do, to be
sowing seeds of discord where fraternal love should abound, and
we hope the women of the several States will send their petitions
to their own members. As Mr. Pomeroy has enough piled up in his
committee room to keep him busy all winter, we advise him to
distribute them among all the gallant gentlemen who would feel
honored in presenting them. Then, too, there is much wisdom in
the remarks made by the Hon. Roscoe Conkling, when he presented a
woman's petition, on the danger of granting Mr. Pomeroy a
monopoly of such privileges, lest he should grow lukewarm in the
cause. True, we have looked