and Miss
Phoebe Couzins.

Miss ANTHONY called upon Senator Sherman, of Ohio, to address the
meeting, who expressed himself highly pleased with the convention
to which he only came as a listener. The following letters were
then read:

SYRACUSE, January 18, 1870.

Mrs. M. J. GAGE--_Dear Friend_: I doubt not this meeting
will urge emphatically upon Congress the duty of striking
the word "male" from the suffrage bill for the District of
Columbia. It is a gross injustice, a _shame_ that such a
term should be in any legal paper defining citizenship in
any civilized State, especially a shame that it should stand
in a bill touching suffrage, in what ought to be the model
District, the choice sample ground of wise and just
government for the _model republic_. Let an indignant
protest and admonition go up in regard to this matter from
your convention, that Congress shall not dare to disregard.
I trust also that the convention will urge upon Congress the
eminent fitness and duty of passing without delay the XVI.
Amendment, and submitting the same to the Legislatures of
the several States for ratification.

The world is moving to-day in the direction of the abolition
of all monopolies of privilege and that of equal and exact
justice and fair play to all classes. Woman now has the
floor; the hour has struck for her. Wyoming and Colorado are
already setting example for the older communities. Let the
preaching of this faith in effective ways, its benign and
thorough working, begin at Jerusalem, at the Capitol of the
nation, and may your convention urge the work to immediate
undertaking, aye, and completion then, at home.

Yours truly, CHAS. D. B. MILLS.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1870.

Mrs. M. JOSLYN GAGE--_Dear Madam_: I beg you to be assured
that I heartily sympathize with all well directed efforts to
secure to woman equality before the law. Whatever can be
done to give her a fair and equal chance with man, is due to
her, and no effort of mine shall be wanting to secure so
desirabl