rent States.

DAVID PLUMB, of New York, advocated the seventh resolution. We
need a XVI. Amendment to settle woman suffrage on a firm basis.
After considerable debate the resolution was unanimously adopted.

The eighth resolution was then discussed, to which Mr. KILGORE
also objected, offering a motion that all the resolution coming
after the words "special social theories," be stricken out. He
was opposed, especially, to the introduction of the words "free
love." What was meant by them?

Mr. BLACKWELL said the Convention meant by the use of that phrase
exactly what the New York _Tribune_ of that morning meant, in its
statement that the woman suffrage movement was one for free love.

The PRESIDENT said this great movement was not responsible for
the freaks and follies of individuals. The resolutions simply
denied that this association indorsed free love, which certain
papers charged them with. After considerable discussion, the
resolution was adopted by the strong, decided and united voices
of nearly a thousand people, voting in the affirmative. At the
evening session of the Convention the great hall was filled
completely, not a seat on the lower floor being unoccupied, and
all the desirable seats in the gallery being taken.

MOSES COIT TYLER, Professor in the Michigan State University at
Ann Arbor, was the first speaker: The seaboard is the natural
seat of liberty. Coming to you from the inland, where the salt
breath of the Atlantic is exchanged for the sweet vapors of the
lakes, I say to you, look well to your laurels! What are you
seaboard people doing to vindicate your honor? We, in the
interior, have at least one National university which opens its
gates to the sex which has the misfortune to be that of Mrs.
Livermore, Mrs. Howe, and others. One of the keenest and
brightest minds of the law in the West animates the head of a
woman. In my own State of Michigan, at least two women have
succeeded in getting their votes into the ballot-box. These are
strifes in which good people may engage, and of the trophies won
in such a contest every modest man may boast. This deep,
national, resolute demand for a great right withheld, means that
woman is really a person, and not merely a lovely shadow. If you
can convince the majority of Americ