ention, the first
ever held in this State, called by the women of Indiana to
consider the true position of woman. An excellent but short
address was made by the President, Hannah Hiatt, on the
importance of the movement and the ruinous consequences of
dividing the interests of men and women, and making their
relations antagonistic in the State, the Church, and the affairs
of every-day life. Much was said against woman's taking part in
government. It would degrade her to vote and hold office, and
destroy her influence as mother, wife, daughter, sister. It was
an answer that if voting and holding office would degrade women,
they would degrade men also; whatever is injurious to the moral
nature, delicacy, and refinement of woman is equally so to man.
Moral obligations rest equally on both sexes. Man should be as
refined and chaste as woman if we would make our social life
pure. Women may as well say to men, "Keep away from the
ballot-box and from office, for it degrades you and unfits you to
be our companions," as for man to say so to women. Dr. Curtis, a
Methodist class-leader, said the Bible had placed the _final
appeal_ in all disputes in man; that if woman refused obedience,
God gave man the right to use force. This "Christian teacher" was
the only person in the Convention who appealed to the spirit of
rowdyism, whose language was unbecoming the subject and the
occasion. He was the only one who appealed to the Bible to
justify the subjection of woman. And while he awarded to man the
right to use force, he said the only influence the Bible
authorized woman to use was moral suasion. Man is to rule woman
by violence; woman must rule man by love, kindness, and
long-suffering. So says the Bible according to the interpretation
of the learned Dr. Curtis. The Convention lasted two days. It was
a thrilling meeting.

Yours, HENRY C. WRIGHT.

NEW GARDEN, Ohio, _Oct. 2, 1851_.

DEAR FRIENDS:--When Goethe was asked if the world would be better
if the Golden Age were restored, he answered, "A synod of good
women shall decide."

Could his spirit look down upon us he would see those synods, of
which he perhaps prophetically spoke, assembling all over the
land, not to res