rant immigration from Continental Europe.
Slavery became a power. Free schools did not exist. Another body
of men supplanted the intelligent founders of the State and
lowered its institutions to meet the lower level of character and
purpose.

Another lesson we should never forget is, that the women of New
Jersey lost the franchise because they voted against extending
this right to others. The women were generally Federalists. They
were said to have given the electoral votes of the State to John
Adams against Thomas Jefferson in 1800. The Democratic party was
bent upon enfranchising the poor white men who were excluded by a
property-qualification. The women, then as now conservative in
character, opposed this extension of suffrage. In 1807, when the
Democrats got possession of the State Government, they put out
the women and colored men and introduced the poor white men. With
this warning before us, let us rejoice that American women have
taken so warm an interest in the emancipation and enfranchisement
of the slaves--that every colored delegate whom I met at the
National Republican Conventions of 1872 and 1876 recognized the
women as their friends, and were ready to help put a woman
suffrage plank into the platform.

Also, let me congratulate you that the Prohibitionists and
Republicans have each adopted our principle of equal rights for
women in their party creeds, and that in the nomination of
Rutherford B. Hayes, a woman suffragist, we have a man whose
first public reputation was won as the champion of a wronged and
friendless woman.

The HUTCHINSONS gave a spirited song. Mr. RAPER, of England, was
then called, and gave an interesting sketch of the progress of
woman suffrage in England. The afternoon meeting was opened by a
song, "One Hundred Years Hence," by the HUTCHINSONS.

CHARLES G. AMES said: This meeting stands for something good and
necessary--better than anything we can say. The advocates of
impartial suffrage are the most consistent friends of the
principles upon which our institutions are founded, because they
alone propose to apply them. All others shrink from this
application. They distrust human nature. They are afraid to move
for fear of what may follow. They are like the Frenchman, who,
being a little drunk, h