a higher dignity and a better
self-respect among them. They talk and think of graver
subjects and of responsibilities which ennoble them. A woman
will not consent to be a butterfly when she can of her own
choice become an eagle! Let her enjoy the ambitions of life;
let her be able to secure its honors, its riches, its high
places, and she will not consent to be its toy or its simple
ornament.

Very respectfully, J. W. KINGMAN.

Miss EASTMAN said that this letter presented just the evidence on
the result and experience of woman suffrage that was wanted. She
said that women were very inconsiderate and indifferent to this
question. Women, until they are brought to think upon the matter,
generally say they do not want to vote. She spoke of the laws of
some States which allow the taking away from a mother of her
children, by a person who had been appointed as their guardian,
in place of her dead husband, and of the laws severe in other
respects which States have made in relation to women. She wished
all persons had the question put to them conscientiously whether
woman had all the power she wanted. We do want, she said, every
legitimate power, and we shall never be content with a tithe less
than we can command.

Gen. A. C. VORIS, of Ohio, read letters from the following
persons, regretting their inability to attend the Convention:
Bishop Gilbert Haven, D.D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Judge Wm. H. West, of Ohio; Hon.
C. W. Willard, of Vermont; Hon. G. W. Julian, of Indiana; Hon. D.
H. Chamberlain, of South Carolina; William Lloyd Garrison, George
William Curtis, the Smith sisters, Richard Fiske, Jr.

Rev. Mrs. GILLETTE, of Rochester, Mich., said every woman as well
as every man should speak for what she believes to be necessary
for her own well-being and for the well-being of the community.
Charles Sumner once said that a woman's reason was the reason of
the heart. She would give a few womanly reasons why she wanted
the voters of Michigan to give the ballot to women. The want of
the ballot prevents woman from possessing knowledge and power. If
a woman performs the most menial services for the sake of her
children, to eke out for them a