NEW nation.

9. _Resolved_, That our special thanks are due to Robert Dale
Owen, who aided us in the inauguration of our work; and to
Charles Sumner, who so earnestly and eloquently presented our
petitions in the Senate of the United States.

10. WHEREAS, From official statistics, it appears that our annual
national expenditures for imported broadcloths, silks, laces,
embroideries, wines, spirits, and cigars, are more than one
hundred million dollars; therefore

_Resolved_, that we recommend the formation of leagues of
patriotic men and women throughout the country, whose object
shall be to discountenance and prevent the indulgence of all
these, and similar useless luxuries during the war; thereby
encouraging habits of economy, stimulating American industry,
diminishing the foreign debt, and increasing our ability to meet
the vast expenditures of the present crisis.

The following letters were read by Miss Anthony:

LETTER FROM EMILE PRETORIUS.

ST. LOUIS, MO., _April 29, 1864_.

MADAM:--Your favor of 23d inst. has come to hand with your call,
which was published and endorsed by our paper, as you will see by
the enclosed slip. Your sentiments are so high and noble that to
doubt a favorable result and response from the West would be like
doubting whether our women had courage enough to follow the
truest instincts, the best impulses of their own pure nature. I,
for one, have no such idea, no such fears; and if I should ever
believe that the Cornelias and Thuseneldas were only to be found
by going back thousands of years in history, and would not and
could not be rivalled by patriotic mothers and heroic wives in
this present crises of ours, I then would renounce at once all
hopes of a national resurrection. Liberty, it is true, is
immortal; but we would be bound to look for her in some other
part of our globe, if we fail on American soil to enlist in our
struggle the full heart of our women.

But there is no such thing as failure in battling for all that is
high and good and sacred, and there is no such thing as failure
in appealing for so good a cause to woman's noble mind and true
heart. They will be with us, every one of them will, and whether
a majority of our people be up to our standard this time