y, with a generous
catholic spirit. Delicacy forbids saying all that the heart
prompts of friends.... In November, 1869, a delegate convention
was held in Cleveland, Ohio, and a society organized, called the
American Woman's Suffrage Society. Its work is yet to be done.
The crowning act of 1869, and the one which gave an omen for the
year that was approaching, was the enfranchising of the women of
Wyoming and Utah. For these acts of justice we are most grateful.
A correspondent says:

The cause of woman in Wyoming goes bravely on. At the last
sitting of the District Court in Albany County, both the
Grand and Petit Juries were equally composed of either sex;
and Chief-Justice Howe, presiding, took advantage of this
occasion to compliment, in the highest terms, the
intelligence, discrimination, honesty, and propriety of the
conduct with which the women acquitted themselves last
session, saying they had gone far to vindicate the policy,
justify the experiment, and realize the expectations of
those who had clothed themselves with the right. The bar,
the bench, and the intelligent men of the country had long
felt that something was needed to improve and justify our
jury system; something to lift it above prejudice and
passion, and imbue it with a higher regard for law, justice,
oath, and conscience. His Honor then expressed the opinion
that the introduction of the new element furnished good
reason to expect that to women we should ultimately be
indebted for those reforms which the unaided exertions of
men had been incompetent to effect.

This is certainly a most flattering presentment of the results of
enfranchising the sex in Wyoming, and what is better, it seems
substantially a just one. The question will therefore naturally
suggest itself, if women, in their new political capacity, are
thus able to "tone" the rude elements of Western civilization,
what inconsistency is there in granting them like privileges in
communities whose superior refinement is so much less likely to
expose them to insult or mortification? In Utah it is of less
account, because the women there are under a hierarchy, and as
yet vote only as directed.

In January, 187