ese reports the Louisville _Courier-Journal_
published entire, together with the letters of Gov. Long, Gov.
St. John, John G. Whittier, Wendell Phillips, President Bascom,
President Eliot, and others, along with full reports of each
session to the last, and crowned the whole by friendly editorials
the morning after the close of the meetings.

Col. J. W. Ward, of Louisville, had kindly attended to
preliminary arrangements, seconded by Mrs. Sylvia Goddard and
Mrs. Col. Carr. At the opening session, Col. Ward called the
meeting to order, and introduced Dr. Mary F. Thomas, of Indiana,
the President of the association. Rev. Mr. Jones opened the
meeting with prayer. The speaking was excellent; the tone of the
meeting just what we should desire. Col. Ward, Mrs. Mary B. Clay,
and Miss Laura Clay, daughters of Cassius M. Clay, took part. The
two first-named arraigned the laws of Kentucky for their
injustice to women. The old Common Law to a great extent prevails
there still. Dr. T. S. Bell, one of the oldest and most justly
celebrated physicians of Louisville, sat on the platform,
supporting the cause by his presence. People from New Albany and
Evansville, Indiana, crossed the river to attend the sessions.
Lawyers, physicians, clergymen, the educated, the wealthy and the
plain people made up the audiences which crowded the Opera House,
where the earlier and the later advocates of this sacred cause
united to forward it in this new field. At the last of the six
sessions, Rev. Mr. Ashill, in a brief speech, indorsed our
principles, and after prayer by Rev. Mr. Fyler, and the singing
of the doxology, the meeting, which had been one of the most
successful ever held, adjourned, having elected for its president
next year, Hon. Erasmus M. Correll, of Nebraska, who so nobly
championed the suffrage amendment in the State Legislature last
winter, and who now, by speech and pen, devotes himself to secure
its final success.

The seed sown had fallen on good ground--as appears in the fact
that at the last session an invitation was given to all who
desired to form a woman suffrage society to meet in adjoining
rooms the next morning at nine o'clock. At the appointed time, a
fine group of men and women came together, who proceeded at once
to the organization of