e Union in Indianapolis, baptized
with its earnest spirit of work. Rev. T. J. Vater appealed to the
women to strive for solid excellence, leaving forever the tinsel
and the show which have been held as appropriate to woman. His
speech excited discussion, and added much interest to the
afternoon session. The Business Committee reported the following
resolutions:

_Resolved_, That in the death of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, who
signed the "Call" for the meeting which formed this
Association, who was an officer in it from the beginning,
and its President last year, the cause of equal rights has
suffered an irreparable loss.

_Resolved_, That suffragists everywhere owe a debt of
gratitude to the memory of Angelina Grimke Weld, lately
deceased, who as one of the first women speakers, prepared
the way and opened wide the door for all other women to be
heard in their own defense.

Dr. Mary F. Thomas and Lucy Stone spoke feelingly to these
resolutions, which were adopted by a standing vote of the
meeting. At the last evening, Mrs. Cutler read a letter from Mrs.
Frances D. Gage.

_Friends of the American Woman Suffrage Association, of my
dear native State, Ohio:_

WITH what joy and gladness I would lift my heart to the
All-good, All-true, and All-beautiful, if I could be with
you to-day, and speak my emphatic yes and amen in the behalf
of all true efforts for woman suffrage. But what word can I
speak that will not be better spoken? What argument is not
already familiar to the reading and thinking mind? Are not
"the truths as self-evident" to-day to the intelligent
public as they were a century ago? That all people, "not men
only," are born equal and endowed by the Creator with
inalienable rights, among which are those to life, liberty,
and pursuit of happiness. Has the human race ever been made
more miserable for one progressive step toward liberty since
the days when Christ was hung upon the cross for daring to
say, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do ye
the same unto them." What else does woman suffrage mean?
What else is needed but this principle to settle the vexed
question of