ast crown our
efforts, in according due praise to those who have achieved the
victory, such names as these must not be forgotten.

Alice Bradley Neal, of Philadelphia, ridiculed this Woman's Rights
Convention in her husband's[73] paper, and Jane Grey Swisshelm
indignantly replied in her _Pittsburgh Saturday Visitor_ as follows:

Mrs. Neal can not be ignorant that the principal object of the
Convention, and all the agitation about woman's rights, is to
secure to the toiling millions of her own sex a just reward for
their labor; to save them from the alternative of prostitution,
starvation, or incessant life-destroying toil; and yet the whole
subject furnishes her with material for scorn and merriment! Tell
it not in Gath! Publish it not in the streets of Askelon, lest
the sons of the Phillistines rejoice that one of the daughters of
Eve, beautiful and gentle, throws down her knitting-pins, and
tries her strength to wield the hammer of old Vulcan to aid them
in forging fetters for the wrists of her unfortunate sisters. We
would that it had been some one else than the gentle Alice Neal
who had volunteered to soil her white hands and sweat her fair
face, laboring in such a blacksmith-shop.

While ever and anon during the last forty years Mrs. Swisshelm has
seized some of these _dilettante_ literary women with her metaphysical
tweezers, and held them up to scorn for their ridicule of the woman
suffrage conventions, yet in her own recently published work in her
mature years, she vouchsafes no words of approval for those who have
inaugurated the greatest movement of the centuries. She complains that
in some of the woman suffrage conventions she attended, there was not
a strict observance of parliamentary rules, and that the resolutions
and speeches were unworthy the occasion. Yet the only time Mrs.
Swisshelm ever honored our platform at a National Convention, her
speech was far below the level of most of the others, and the
resolutions she offered were so verbose and irrelevant, that the
Committee declined to present them to the Convention.

It is quite evident from her last pronunciamento that she has no just
appreciation of the importance and dignity of our demand for justice
and equality. A soldier without a leg is a fact so much more readily
understood, than all women without ballots, and his loss so much more
readily comprehended and supplied, that