en not human beings? The lowest and most
ignorant man who leaves any shore and lands on yours, ere he has
earned a home or made family ties, becomes a citizen of your
great country; whilst your own women, who during a life-time may
have done much service and given much to the State, are denied
the right accorded to that man, however low his condition may be.
You are fighting to overcome this great monopoly of citizenship.
We watch your proceedings with deep interest. We rejoice in your
successes and sympathize with you in your endeavors to gain fresh
victories.

Congratulatory letters were received from Ewing Whittle, M. D., of the
Royal Academy, Liverpool, and Miss Isabella M. S. Tod, the well-known
reformer of Belfast. M. Leon Richer, the eminent writer of Paris, and
Mlle. Hubertine Auclert, editor of _La Citoyenne_, sent cordial words
of co-operation. There were also greetings from Mrs. Ernestine L.
Rose, a Polish exile, one of the first women lecturers in America;
from the wife and daughter of A. A. Sargent, U. S. Minister to Berlin;
from Theodore Stanton; Miss Florence Kelley, daughter of the Hon.
William D. Kelley; the wife of Moncure D. Conway; Rosamond, daughter
of Robert Dale Owen; Mrs. Charlotte B. Wilbour and Dr. Frances E.
Dickinson, all Americans residing abroad.

Among the noted men and women of the United States who sent letters
endorsing equal suffrage, were George William Curtis, William Lloyd
Garrison, U. S. Senators Henry B. Anthony and Henry W. Blair, the Hon.
George W. Julian, the Hon. William I. Bowditch, Robert Purvis, the
Rev. Anna Oliver, Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, the "mother" of Ben Hur,
and Mrs. Abby Hutchinson Patton.[15]

To this assembly Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, sent almost his last public utterance:

For more than thirty years I have been in favor of woman
suffrage. I was led to this position not by the consideration of
the question of natural rights or of alleged injustice or of
inequality before the law, but by what I believed would be the
influence of woman on the great moral questions of the day. Were
the ballot in the hands of women, I am satisfied that the evils
of intemperance would be greatly lessened, and I fear that
without that ballot we shall not succeed against the saloons and
kindred evils in large cities. You will doubtless have many
obstacles