ing
shared their rights and their duties, they share to-day their
captivity.

It is from the depths of their prison that they address to you
the relation of these facts, which contain in themselves high
instruction. It is by labor, it is by entering resolutely into
the ranks of the working people, that women will conquer the
civil and political equality on which depends the happiness of
the world. As to moral equality, has she not conquered it by the
power of sentiment? It is, therefore, by the sentiment of the
love of humanity that the mother of humanity will find power to
accomplish her high mission. It is when she shall have well
comprehended the holy law of solidarity--which is not an obscure
and mysterious dogma, but a living providential fact--that the
kingdom of God promised by Jesus, and which is no other than the
kingdom of equality and justice, shall be realized on earth.

Sisters of America! your socialist sisters of France are united
with you in the vindication of the right of woman to civil and
political equality. We have, moreover, the profound conviction
that only by the power of association based on solidarity--by the
union of the working-classes of both sexes to organize labor--can
be acquired, completely and pacifically, the civil and political
equality of woman, and the social right for all.

It is in this confidence that, from the depths of the jail which
still imprisons our bodies without reaching our hearts, we cry to
you, Faith, Love, Hope, and send to you our sisterly salutations,

JEANNE DEROINE,
PAULINE ROLAND.

PARIS, PRISON OF ST. LAGARE, _June 15, 1851_.

Ernestine L. Rose, having known something of European despotism,
followed Mr. Channing in a speech of great pathos and power. She said:

After having heard the letter read from our poor incarcerated
sisters of France, well might we exclaim, Alas, poor France!
where is thy glory? Where the glory of the Revolution of 1848, in
which shone forth the pure and magnanimous spirit of an oppressed
nation struggling for Freedom? Where the fruits of that victory
that gave to the world the motto, "Liberty, Equality, and
Fraternity"? A motto destined to hurl the tyranny of kings and
priests