Very truly yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
Rev. SAMUEL J. MAY.

LETTER FROM HON. WILLIAM HAY, OF SARATOGA SPRINGS.

I acknowledge, with much pleasure, the receipt of a printed
circular, calling for the Seventh Woman's Rights Annual
Convention. I also acknowledge, with increased pleasure, and
perhaps with more pride than becomes me, the accompanying
invitation to attend that Convention, and take part in its
proceedings. I like this word, because it implies progress.

Pre-engagement will prevent my personal attendance at the
Broadway Tabernacle, but, be assured, my heart shall be there,
with all its desires and hopes for the future of humanity;
because I am convinced that until the individual and social
rights of our whole race, without distinction of caste or sex,
shall have been universally recognized, the tyrannies of earth
will not cease from oppressing it.

I wish that every woman in the United States could be at New
York, throughout the continuance of your Convention, where each
might see for herself, in Mrs. Lucretia Mott, what woman may be,
and should be, and must be, before her sex can attain,
individually and socially, "that equal station to which the laws
of Nature and of Nature's God entitle" her. For physical and
mental improvement of man's condition, according to his
birthright and educational capacity, there must be, in America,
more Marys, the mothers of Washingtons.

The great political and legal reform announced in your circular,
contemplating complete development of the entire human race, is
already operating, sympathetically and auspiciously, in Europe,
upon preeminent minds, like that of Lord Brougham, and may
favorably react, in practical adoption here, of Jefferson's
elementary truth (almost a self-evident proposition, and yet
treated as theory), that government derives its just powers from
suffrage-consent of all (not half) of the governed. Partial
consent (especially by and to a moiety of mankind, arrogantly
claiming, like Louis XIV., to be the State) can confer only
unjust power, which Heaven's higher law of liberty, equality, and
justice never sanctioned.

Your Convention is most opportune, for this Continent is
threatened wi