tentions to try
the experiment in the spring.

Wherever the change has been made it seems to be completely
successful.--_Courier and Enquirer_.

Mr. MAY said: If a woman should not leave her family to go to the
Legislature, neither should a man. The obligation is mutual: and
while children require the care of both parents, both should
share the duty, and not leave them from ambitious motives. It is
only those who have well discharged their duties to their
families who are fit to become legislators. We are now giving the
nation into the hands of boys and half-grown men. Had we such
women as Lucretia Mott and Angelina Grimke in the Legislature,
there would be more wisdom there than we have to-day. When I
look through the nation and see the shameful mismanagement, I am
convinced that it is the result, in part, of the absence of the
feminine element in high stations; it is because the maternal
influence is wanting that we run riot as we do. The State is in a
condition of half orphanage, and needs the care and guidance of a
mother.

E. A. HOPKINS, Esq.: Thought the movement was not entirely
timely, wise, and practicable, though parts of it might be. He
took Up and answered each of the questions appended to the call
for the Convention. His speech was characteristic of the lawyer,
and the frequent recurrence of the idea, _it is right because it
is customary_, will illustrate its moral character. He stated
three several points where he thought woman was aggrieved and
should have legislative redress. Office was a temptation, and he
thought woman was better off without it.

Miss BROWN proposed that the men, for a while, be relieved from
this great evil, and excused from the burdens of office. If this
necessary duty was so burdensome, woman should be a helper and
share its burdens with him. We are taught to be grateful for
small favors. Our friend has been giving you milk, but to me it
seems, even at that, diluted with water. There is one law, "All
things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even
so to them." When our brothers are ready to be paid a dollar a
week for keeping house and nursing the children, let them dictate
this also to us. We women now offer to take the burden and
responsibility of government upon ourselves