n the ground that the attempt to obtain
for women a voice and vote in the party caucuses was unwise and
impracticable. Until women were voters no such right should be
demanded. To do so was to begin at the wrong end. A caucus was
and ought to be a conference of voters.

Dr. JOHN CAMERON, of Delaware, doubted the propriety of the
action recommended in the first resolution. Mr. BLACKWELL spoke
briefly in its support.

Mrs. SMITH, of Pittsburgh, stated that as a member of the
Prohibition party of Pennsylvania, she had repeatedly taken part
in the caucuses, and that the same was true elsewhere. By general
consent the further discussion was postponed. Dr. CAMERON, of
Delaware, at the evening session, said that on a more careful
consideration he was convinced that the action proposed was
right, and he should vote in its favor.

Mrs. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY supported it by a story of the mice
who planned to bell the cat.

Mr. BLACKWELL spoke at length in favor of making a concerted
effort to secure the admission of women to the nominating
caucuses, and predicted the success of any party which should
adopt that measure, and all the resolutions were then adopted.

Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE spoke of the determination which exists in
the present age for investigating everything to its utmost
extent, but questioned, however, whether this system of
investigation was not carried too far, when woman suffrage was
refused on the ground that it was not known what women would do
with it when they had it. She said that John Bright was opposed
to woman suffrage, but he did not show any reason why it was not
a good object.

It was said that his opposition arose from the fact that he had
married a woman who was opposed to woman's rights, and if this
were the case, it was an additional reason why women should work
among their own sex in promotion of this object. One important
feature of the British Parliament is, that if the men of the
country are dissatisfied with its action, they have the power to
put the Government out of office, but the women of the country
had only to sit passively by if they are not satisfied with the
administration. Freedom with its concomitants does not promote
despotism in either sex. The ignorant women of to-day, left in
the