tion, even in town affairs, is so
unfair that it seems only necessary to bring it to public view to
make it odious and to bring about a change. Therefore you deserve
the greater honor, not only because you have suffered in a good
cause, but because you have set an example that will be followed,
and that will lead to happy results.

Your case has its parallel in every township of New England. In
the town where this is written a widow pays into the treasury
$7,830 a year, while 600 men, a number equal to half the whole
number of voters, pay $1,200 in all. Another lady pays $5,042.
Yet neither has a single vote, not even by proxy. That is, each
one of 600 men who have no property, who pay only a poll-tax, and
many of whom cannot read or write, has the power of voting away
the property of the town, while the female _owners_ have no power
at all. We have lately spent a day in celebrating the heroism of
those who threw overboard the tea; but how trifling was the
tea-tax, and how small the injustice to individuals compared with
this one of our day! The principle, however, was the same--that
there should be no taxation where there is no representation. And
this is what we ought to stand by. Please to accept the sympathy
and respect of one of your fellow citizens. No doubt you will
have the same from all in due time; or, at any rate, from all who
love to see fair play.

Very truly yours, AMOS A. LAWRENCE.

_Miss Abby H. Smith, Glastonbury, Conn._

A marked evidence of the advance of public sentiment was manifested
by a decision of the Supreme Court in 1882, by which the women of
Connecticut were held to have the right to practice law. The
opinion of Chief-Justice Park concerning the legality of the
admission of Miss Mary Hall of Hartford to the bar, giving her the
right to practice in the courts of the State, is as follows:

This is an application by a woman for admission to the bar of
Hartford county. After having completed the prescribed term of
study she has passed the examination required and has been
recommended by the bar of the county to the Superior Court for
admission, subject to the opinion of the court upon the question
whether, as a woman, she can legally be admitted. The Superior
Court has reserved the case for our advice.

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