is
impossible for the most sagacious political observer to predict
the fate of any of the amendments. The fifth is the only one in
support of which public meetings have been held, and those took
place the early part of the spring at the larger places in the
State. The friends have never expected to obtain a majority, nor
even a considerable vote in the convention, and the meetings that
have been held were not expected to settle the question, but to
awaken the public mind upon the subject. These meetings have been
a decided success, attended by hundreds of intelligent citizens,
many of whom for the first time listened to an address upon the
subject. It is true that ladies were advised to remain away, but
such advice generally resulted in a larger attendance; and to-day
the measure has a firmer support than ever before, and its
advocates are more confident of final success. We may not have
more than "_ten righteous_" men elected to the convention, but
that number was enough to save the cities of the _plain_, and we
have full faith that as small a number can save the cities of the
_mountains_.

The press of the State is divided on the subject. We have two
dailies--one, the _Rutland Herald_, the oldest paper in the
State, in favor of the movement, and the _Free Press_ of
Burlington, opposed to it. After the coming convention, no change
can be made in our constitution for seven years, at least, and if
the sixth amendment be adopted, not for ten years. But, in the
meantime, the question will assume more importance by a constant
agitation as to the equality of the sexes, the admission of women
to the State University, the professions, and other rights to
which men are entitled. Vermont can never emulate in wealth and
population the manufacturing States of the seaboard, or the
prairie States of the West; but she can win a nobler preeminence
in the quality of her institutions. She may be the first State,
as Wyoming already is the first territory, to give political
equality to woman, and to show the world the model of a true
republic.

ST. ANDREW.

_Burlington, Vt., May 1, 1870._

Mr. Reed of Washington county submitted the report in favor of the
woman suffrage amendment, from which we give the