that the women themselves do not desire it. Many men do not
desire it, as is evidenced by their omission to exercise it, but
they are not therefore deprived of it. I do not understand that
you propose compulsory suffrage, although I am not sure that that
would not be for the public advantage as applied to both sexes. A
woman has a right to vote in a corporation of which she is a
stockholder, and that she does not generally exercise that right
is not an argument against the right itself. The progress that is
making in the direction of your efforts is satisfactory and
encouraging.

Faithfully yours, H. B. ANTHONY.

Senator Anthony was one of the ever-to-be-remembered nine senators
who voted for woman suffrage on the floor of the United States
Senate in 1866. He also made a most logical speech on our behalf
and has ever since been true to our demands.

FOOTNOTES:

[171] To Mrs. Davis, a native of the State of New York, belongs the
honor of inaugurating this movement in New England, as she called
and managed the first convention held in Massachusetts in 1850, and
helped to arouse all these States to action in 1868. With New
England reformers slavery was always the preeminently pressing
question, even after the emancipation of the slaves, while in New
York woman's civil and political rights were considered the more
vital question.--[E. C. S.

[172] _The Revolution_ of December 17, 1868, says: The meeting last
week in Providence, was, in numbers and ability, eminently
successful. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chace, of Valley Falls, presided, and
addresses were made by Colonel Higginson, Paulina Wright Davis,
Lucy Stone, Frederick Douglass, Mrs. O. Shepard, Rev. John Boyden,
Dr. Mercy B. Jackson, Stephen S. and Abbey Kelly Foster. The
officers of the association were: _President_, Paulina Wright
Davis. _Vice-presidents_, Elizabeth B. Chace of Valley Falls, Col.
T. W. Higginson of Newport, Mrs. George Cushing, J. W. Stillman,
Mrs. Buffum of Woonsocket and P. W. Aldrich. _Recording Secretary_,
Martha W. Chase. _Corresponding Secretary_, Mrs. Rhoda Fairbanks.
_Treasurer_, Mrs. Susan B. Harris. _Executive Committee_, Mrs.
James Bucklin, Catharine W. Hunt, Mrs. Lewis Doyle, Anna Aldrich,
Mrs. S. B. G. Martin, Dr. Perry, Mrs. Churchill, Arnold B. Chace.

[173] Among the speakers at these annual conventions we find
Rowland G. Hazard, Rev. John Boyd