sharp struggle. As it was, they had to
concede the right of membership to men, in order to carry the main
point, as several ladies would not join unless men also could be
admitted. All preliminaries discussed and amicably adjusted, a list of
officers was chosen and an organization completed, making a XVIth
Amendment the special object of its work and consideration. The
regular weekly meetings of this Association were reported by the
metropolitan press with many spicy and critical comments, which did a
great educational work and roused much thought on the whole question.

Conventions were held during the summer at Saratoga and Newport. The
following letter from Celia Burleigh gives a bird's-eye view of that
at Saratoga:

SARATOGA, July 16th, 1869.

The advocates of Woman Suffrage have fairly earned the title of
Revolutionists by their recent bold move on the enemy's
stronghold. The great foe to progress is want of thought, and the
devotees of fashion are about the last to come into line and work
for any great reform. Not a little surprise, and some
indignation, were expressed by the representatives of upper
tendom sojourning here, that strong-minded women were not only
coming to Saratoga, but actually intending to hold a convention.
What next? What place would henceforth be safe from the assaults
of these irrepressible amazons of reform? Saratoga has survived
the shock, however; Flora McFlimsey has looked in the face of
Miss Anthony, and has not been turned to stone. More than that,
finding the convention pouring into the parlors of Congress Hall,
and escape actually cut off, Flora, after deliberating whether to
faint and be carried out, or gratify her curiosity by looking on,
finally submitted gracefully to the inevitable and did the
latter. From her crimson cushioned arm chair by the window, she
saw the meeting called to order, saw one after another of "those
horrid women, whose names are in the newspapers," quietly taking
their places, doing the thing proper to be done, and carrying
forward the business of the meeting. Really, they were not so
dreadful after all. They neither wore beards nor pantaloons.
There was not even a woman with short hair among them. On the
contrary, they seemed to be decidedly appreciative of "good
clothes" and if less fa