a
society for sending women as missionaries to India for the
express purpose of educating Brahman women. They will deny
any belief in the woman suffrage movement, but they are
teaching women the alphabet, and that is the first step
toward the fullest possession of self, which will yet claim
and vindicate all human rights. Among the most significant
signs of the influence of this agitation, is the change in
the laws of the different States in regard to the rights of
women. Conversing with a member of the committee charged
with the revision of the laws of California, he said to me:
"The most important part of my work is the revisions of the
statutes concerning marriage and divorce and the rights of
property and of guardianship for married women."

The action of Congress shows us clearly, that as soon as
there is sufficient pressure from without, it will give a
light by which to read the XIV. and XV. Amendments, or it
will inspire the passage of a XVI., so that our cause will
be won. Knowing that your deliberations will be wise, and
that the inspiring spirit will be purity and harmony, I
shall the less regret that I am compelled to be absent in
person, though present in spirit.

H. M. T. CUTLER.

The Rev. Dr. EDWARD EGGLESTON, of the _Independent_, said: One
can not show one's interest in the cause better than by speaking
in this opening moment of the Convention. I think every
individual in the country should have a voice in the making of
the laws. Here is a large and increasing class of women in the
country who need the suffrage, and men feel that they need women
in politics. A great many people never think of the effect of
suffrage on woman without a shudder. I am not one who believes
that women are adapted to every kind of work to which a man is. I
do not believe that a woman's mind is just like a man's, but the
most shameful proscription of all is that which prevents women
from doing the work for which they are adapted. It is not
necessary for a woman to be a man in order to vote. We want a
woman's vote to be a woman's vote, and not a man's vote. It is a
singular old heresy that to