Fraternally yours, THEODORE TILTON,
President of the Union Woman Suffrage Society.

At his own desire the President was unanimously requested to make
reply on the behalf of the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Mr. Beecher remarked, "If there are two general associations for
the same purpose, it is because we mean, in this great work, to
do twice as much labor as one society could possibly do."

Rev. OSCAR CLUTE said: Every favored movement of civilization has
been simply a recognition of the rights and privileges that
inhere in humanity. Take for instance the idea of the divine
right of kings--which has been so thoroughly scouted by our
republicanism. The abandonment of that idea upon the part of our
fathers was a great stride in the path of civilization. And at
this time in almost all parts of the world something is being
done toward giving the masses a clearer idea of those rights
which inhere in them.

In our own country, the object of the woman suffrage reformers
is, not to overturn anything already established that is good and
pure and noble, but to extend to women those rights which inhere
in them as human beings. It is not claimed for women that they
shall have any advantage over men, but simply that they shall
have the right to labor and receive their earnings. That they
shall have such facilities of education as men enjoy. Give woman
equal opportunities. Her sphere is, undoubtedly, to engage in
such labor, to get such culture, and do such good work as she
finds ready to her hands, and to help on in the cause of
humanity. The ballot is the key that opens to woman all the
avenues of labor and of culture. If all the avenues of education
and labor were open to women, we should find them growing up with
higher and nobler ambition than the girls of to-day. The laws at
present in force are detrimental to the interests of women not
only in regard to property, but to marriage itself. Some
provision is necessary by which women themselves can bring their
efforts to bear upon these laws, and the ballot is the only
effective measure for the purpose.

Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE said: My dear friends--Sometimes, when I
begin to speak at conventions for the advocacy of woman suffrage,
I feel self