hat it was the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Woman
Suffrage movement. The speakers[153] represented many of the far
Western States. Among the letters of interest was one from Madam
Mathilde Francisca Anneke, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who accompanied
her letter with a beautiful laurel wreath to be presented to the
founder of the Woman's Rights movement, the venerable Lucretia
Mott.[154] The resolutions embody the substance of the various
speeches made at that Convention. The following letters were read:

MY DEAR MISS ANTHONY:--Being detained from attending this very
important Convention, which celebrates twenty-five years of as
honest and glorious work as ever was done by man or woman upon
the face of the earth, permit me through yourself, as president
of the National Society, to address a few words to my
fellow-workers in the cause of political equality.

At first, let me beg you, my friends, one and all, to read the
report of the first Convention held at Seneca Falls, twenty-five
years ago, as I have just been doing for the third time, that you
may join me in heartfelt admiration of the distinguished women
who there enunciated a "declaration of sentiments" equal to the
old Declaration of Independence, and founded on a similar list of
grievances as those which provoked and justified the
Revolutionary war. Especially will you note the speech of a woman
there, hardly thirty years of age, which for philosophic
comprehension of the great truths of liberty and responsibility,
for patriotism and eloquence, has not been surpassed in the
history of our country. This alone should be sufficient to send
the name of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, side by side with the
grandest of our revolutionary statesmen, down to the latest
posterity.

The moving spirit of the occasion, however, we are told, was
Lucretia Mott, who spoke with her usual eloquence to a large and
intelligent audience on the subject of "Reform in General," and,
from time to time, during the numerous sessions of the
Convention, swayed the assembly by her beautiful and spiritual
appeals, and was the first to affix her name to this prophetic
and inspired "Declaration of sentiments"--an act which she will
tell you to-day, I trust, has brought to her more joy than,
perhaps, any other act of her life.

Had I the means, th