of education, depressed by public
opinion, but developed by the spirit of the age; Egypt and
Algiers.

_Nov. 8th._--Public opinion, as it is influenced by the study of
the Classics and History, by general literature, newspapers, and
customs.

_Nov. 15th._--Public opinion as modified by individual lives:
Mary Wollstonecroft, Anna Jamieson, Charlotte Bronte, and
Margaret Fuller.

In June 11th, of this year, Mrs. Dall writes to the _Liberator_ of her
efforts to circulate the following petition:

_To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled:_

WHEREAS, The women of Massachusetts are disfranchised by its
State Constitution solely on account of sex.

We do respectfully demand the right of suffrage, which involves
all other rights of citizenship, and one that can not justly be
withheld, as the following admitted principles of government
show:

1st. "All men are born free and equal."

2d. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the
governed."

3d. "Taxation and representation are inseparable." We, the
undersigned, therefore petition your Honorable Body to take the
necessary steps to revise the Constitution so that all citizens
may enjoy equal political rights.

NEW ENGLAND CONVENTION.

May 27th, 1859, an enthusiastic Convention was held in Mercantile
Hall. Long before the hour announced the aisles, ante-rooms,, and
lobbies were crowded. At three o'clock Mrs. Caroline H. Dall called
the meeting to order. Mrs. Caroline M. Severance was chosen President.
On taking the chair, she said:

This movement enrolls itself among the efforts of the age, and
the anniversaries of the week as the most radical, and yet in the
best sense the most conservative of them all. It bears the same
relation, to all the charities of the day, which strive nobly to
serve woman, that the Anti-Slavery movement bears to all
superficial palliations of slavery. Like that, it goes beneath
effects, and seeks to remove causes. After showing in a very
lucid manner the difference in the family institution, when the
mother is ignorant and enslaved, and when an educated,
harmoniously developed equal, she closed by saying: It will be
seen then, that instead of confounding the philosophy of