it has been argued that the Green Mountain State is
and has been especially liberty-loving. But during the two brief
visits we made last winter, we were told again and again, by
Vermont men, that the only reason for the non-introduction of
slavery was the impracticability of that form of labor among the
Green Mountains--that slavery could never have been made
profitable there, and that this, and not principle and heroic
love of freedom, prevented Vermont from ever being a slave State.
Nowhere, not even in the roughest and remotest West, have we met
with such vulgar rudeness, ill-manners and heroic lying as we
encountered in Vermont. The lecturers who were invited into the
State by the Vermont Woman Suffrage Association, composed wholly
of men, were in many instances left unsupported by them, allowed
to meet the frequently rough audiences as best they could, to pay
their own bills, and to manage the campaign as they might. At the
very first intimation of opposition on the part of the
_Montpelier Argus_, the _Watchman_ and the _Burlington Free
Press_--an unworthy trio of papers that appear to control the
majority--many members of the State association showed the "white
feather," and either apologetically backed out of the canvass, or
ignominiously kept silent in the background. There was,
therefore, nothing like a thorough discussion of the question, no
fair meeting of truth and error, not even an attempt to canvass
the State. For, not ambitious to waste their efforts on such
flinty soil, the men and women who were invited to labor there
shook off the dust (snow) of Vermont from their feet, and turned
to more hopeful fields of labor.

Let it not be supposed, however, that this vote of the delegates
of the constitutional convention is any indication of the
sentiment of the women on this question. The fact that 231 women
of lawful age, residents of Brattleborough, and 96 of Newfane,
sent a petition for woman suffrage, with their reasons for asking
it, to Charles K. Field, delegate from that town to the
constitutional convention; that petitions from other hundreds of
women have been forwarded to congress, praying for a sixteenth
amendment; that, by letters and personal statements, we know the
most intelligent and thoughtful women everywhere rebel a