nscientious abolitionist; the poor
fugitive from bondage did not knock at her door in vain. The
temperance reform, too, has had her warm sympathy and the benefit
of her pure example. She is a member of the Grand Lodge of Good
Templars, and has held important offices in that Order, having
been a faithful disciple in spreading the gospel of temperance
over forty years, always a member of some organization.

During the war of the rebellion she gave herself in every way
that was open to woman to the loyal service of her country. As
assistant physician in hospitals, looking after the sick and
wounded, and in sanitary work at home, she manifested as much
patriotism as any man did on the battle-field. After her long
experience, she comes to the conclusion, that with the ballot in
her own hand, with the power to coin her will into law, a woman
might do a far more effective work in preventing human misery and
crime, than she ever can accomplish by indirect influence, in
merely mitigating the evils man perpetuates by law.

(_From the Liberator of May, 1856_).

RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN WISCONSIN.

Minority Report of C. L. Sholes, from the "Committee on
Expiration and Re-enactment of Laws," to whom were referred
sundry petitions, praying that steps may be taken to confer
upon women the right of suffrage in Wisconsin.

The minority of the Committee on Expiration and Re-enactment of
Laws, beg leave to report:

The theory of our government, proclaimed some eighty years since,
these petitioners ask may be reduced to practice. The undersigned
is aware that the opinion has been announced from a high place
and high source, that this theory is, in the instrument which
contains it, a mere rhetorical flourish, admirable to fill a
sentence and round a period, but otherwise useless and
meaningless; that so far from all mankind being born free and
equal, it is those only who have rights that are entitled to
them; those yet out of the pale of that fortunate condition being
intended by Providence always to be and remain there. But
notwithstanding this opinion has the weight of high authority,
and notwithstanding the practice of the American people has thus
far been in strict accordance with such opinion, the undersigned