l not be the last State in the Union to
deny women their inalienable rights.

EMILY COLLINS.

The newspaper comments on Elizabeth Blackwell as a physician, both in
the French and American papers, seem very ridiculous to us at this
distance of time. _The American_, Rochester, N. Y., July, 1848:

A NOVEL CIRCUMSTANCE.--Our readers will perhaps remember that
some time ago a lady, Miss Elizabeth Blackwell, applied for
admission as a student in one of the medical colleges of
Philadelphia, her purpose being to go through an entire course of
the study of medicine. The application was denied, and the lady
subsequently entered the Geneva Medical College, where, at the
Annual Commencement on the 23d instant, she graduated with high
honors and received the degree of M.D., the subject of her thesis
being "ship fever." On receiving her diploma she thus addressed
the President: "With the help of the Most High, it shall be the
effort of my life to shed honor on this diploma." Professor Lee,
who delivered the customary oration, complimented the lady by
saying that she had won the distinction of her class by attending
faithfully to every duty required of candidates striving for the
honor. Eighteen young gentlemen received the degree of M.D. at
the same time.

After graduating with high honors in this country, Dr. Elizabeth
Blackwell went to France to secure still higher advantages of
education than could be found here. What was thought of her there will
be seen by the following letter of a Paris correspondent in the New
York _Journal of Commerce_:

AN AMERICAN DOCTRESS.--The medical community of Paris is all agog
by the arrival of the celebrated American doctor, Miss Blackwell.
She has quite bewildered the learned faculty by her diploma, all
in due form, authorizing her to dose and bleed and amputate with
the best of them. Some of them think Miss Blackwell must be a
socialist of the most rabid class, and that her undertaking is
the entering wedge to a systematic attack on society by the whole
sex. Others, who have seen her, say that there is nothing very
alarming in her manner; that, on the contrary, she is modest and
unassuming, and talks reasonably on other subjects. The ladies
attack her in turn. One said to me a few days since, "Oh, it is
too