full measure, the hallowed influence which woman is designed to
shed. Her holy mission is to bring peace on earth and good-will
to man. She does not ask for irresponsible power; she has seen
that from the earliest records of the human race the possession
of such power is fraught with danger, that it has always made
tyrants. She feels Divinity stirring within her, and its
irrepressible aspirings can not, should not be controlled.
Mankind have always rejected the means appointed by Infinite
Wisdom to assist their upward flight. Let us then go calmly
forward, alike regardless of the scorn and ridicule of the
shallow, the grave denunciations of the bigot, or the weighty
counsel of the narrow-minded and selfish, who would point out the
exact position fitted for us to occupy, and with seeming
condescension invite us to fill some posts of honor and profit,
while they undertake to confine us within their bounds, leaving
nothing to our good sense, intelligence, intuitive desires, and
aspiring hopes. The truth is, "It is not in man that walketh to
direct his steps." God alone is competent to do this, and in the
present movement His power, wisdom, and will, are so
conspicuous, that it will be well to set no bounds to His work,
but let it have free course, expecting that contradictions and
inconsistencies will mar it, but believing that those
contradictions will cease, those inconsistencies disappear, and
the perfected human being be developed.

If we adopt as our watchword the language of Margaret Fuller, we
can not but overcome all obstacles, outlive all opposition: "Give
me Truth. Cheat me by no illusion. Oh, the granting of this
prayer is sometimes terrible; I walk over the burning plowshares
and they sear my feet--yet nothing but Truth will do."

SARAH M. GRIMKE

LUCRETIA MOTT addressed the Convention, briefly referring to the
importance of the movement and expressing her gratification on
seeing the response given to the call, by the great number of
persons assembled. She saw before her not only a large delegation
from the immediate vicinity, but a goodly number from other and
distant States.

The movement for the enfranchisement of woman is indeed making
rapid progress. Since the first C