is
success is much greater than appears on the surface, for our
people, as you know, shrink much more timidly than Americans from
attracting public notice to themselves; and the era of great
public meetings on this subject has not arrived in our country,
though it may be near at hand. I need hardly say how much I am
gratified at the mode in which my name was mentioned in the
National Convention at Newport, and still more at the tribute to
the memory of my dear wife, who from early youth was devoted to
this cause, and had done invaluable service to it as the inspirer
and instructor of others, even before writing the essay so
deservedly eulogized in your resolutions. To her I owe the far
greater part of whatever I have myself been able to do for the
cause, for though from my boyhood I was a convinced adherent of
it, on the ground of justice, it was she who taught me to
understand the less obvious bearings of the subject, and its
close connection with all the great moral and social interests of
the cause. I am, dear madam, very sincerely yours,

J. S. MILL.
To Mrs. Paulina W. Davis.

Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, was introduced and made some very
appropriate remarks:

He said he was no new convert to this idea of woman's right to
suffrage. Woman claims the right to vote, not because she is a
woman, and stronger or weaker than man, but because she is a
citizen, amenable to the laws and under the control of the
government. He did not propose to vote to simply give woman the
franchise, but to remove the obstacles that now forbid the
exercise of that right. He welcomed to this organization every
earnest worker, and he was glad to hear that they were stirring
up the elements. He had been waiting for the last two months for
petitions, but he thought the franchise would never be secured to
any class until it was imbedded in the constitution, and put
beyond the freaks of politicians and majorities in State
Legislatures. He was in favor of carrying the movement into the
fundamental law of the land. The negro's hour is passed, and it
is woman's hour now. The negro has had his day, his cause has
triumphed, and as woman is a citizen, and we need her ballot in
the government, I hope that this movement ma