not counted among the
extremists. Indeed, she claimed the right only for three classes
of persons, namely, single women who have property of their own,
married women, and all such other women as may desire it. I am
willing that a property qualification should be exacted. Require,
if you will, that each woman voter shall possess a gold watch,
and keep it wound and up to time--a clothes wringer and a sewing
machine; that she shall be able to concoct a pudding, sew on a
button, and, at a pinch, keep a boarding-house and support a
husband respectably....

The PRESIDENT read the reply which he had prepared to the letter
of Mr. Tilton as follows:

NEW YORK, May 11, 1870.

_To Theodore Tilton, President of the Woman Suffrage Society
Meeting in Apollo Hall_: Dear Sir: Your letter of
congratulation was received with great pleasure by the mass
Convention assembled in Steinway Hall, under the auspices of
the American Woman Suffrage Association, and I am instructed
by their unanimous vote to express their gratification, and
to reciprocate your sentiments of cordial good-will. In this
great work upon which you have entered--the enfranchisement
of woman--we have a common aim and interest, and we shall
rejoice at any success which is achieved by your zeal and
fidelity.

I am, very truly, yours, HENRY WARD BEECHER.

Mrs. MARY F. DAVIS, of New Jersey, read a report from the
executive committee of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association.

Col. T. W. HIGGINSON spoke as follows: Mr. President, Ladies and
gentlemen--I was thinking during the brilliant speech of Mrs.
Lippincott, what an awful reflection the existence of that woman
was upon the Government of the country in which we live--that she
should reside in sight of the Capitol of Washington and never get
nearer the interior of that building than the reporter's desk.
Fancy a House of Representatives in which she should have an
opportunity of talking to her fellow-delegates as she has talked
to us this afternoon. Fancy the life, the new interest, the
animation that will come into those desolate debates in Congress
whenever she sets her foot as Senator or Representative within