themselves. We are now holding conventions in the chief cities of
the several States, and petitioning Congress for a sixteenth
amendment to the Federal Constitution that shall forbid the
disfranchisement of any citizen on account of sex. In January,
soon after the convening of Congress, we shall hold a National
Convention in Washington to press our arguments on the
representatives of the people. Sooner or later you will be driven
to make the same demand; for, from whatever point you start in
tracing the wrongs of citizens, you will be logically brought
step by step to see that the real difficulty in all cases is the
need of representation in the government. However various our
plans and objects, we are all working to a common centre. And in
this general awakening among women we are taking the grandest
step in civilization that the world has yet seen. When men and
women are reunited as equals in the great work of life, then, and
not till then, will harmony and happiness reign supreme on earth.
Tendering you our best wishes for the success of your convention
and the triumph of our cause in Europe, we are yours, with much
esteem,

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, ELIZABETH B. PHELPS,
CHARLOTTE B. WILBOUR, SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS.

The following ladies were appointed delegates to the Woman's
Industrial Congress called to meet at Berlin: Ernestine L. Rose, Laura
C. Bullard, New York; Kate N. Doggett, Mary J. Safford, Illinois; Mary
Peckenpaugh, Missouri. A letter from Mrs. Bullard[126] was listened to
with interest.

During the Autumn of this year there was a secession from our ranks,
and the preliminary steps were taken for another organization. Aside
from the divisions growing out of a difference of opinion on the
amendments, there were some personal hostilities among the leaders of
the movement that culminated in two Societies, which were generally
spoken of as the New York and Boston wings of the Woman Suffrage
reform. The former, as already stated, called the "National Woman
Suffrage Association," with Elizabeth Cady Stanton for President,
organized in May; the latter called "The American Woman Suffrage
Association," with Henry Ward Beecher for President, organized the
following November. Most of those who inaugurated the reform remained
in the National As