wn in the East,
except to the more immediately interested, who are making a
life-labor of the cause. The two days' convention at Dayton
was freighted with interest. Earnest women were there from
all parts of the State. They of the west do not think much
of distances, and consequently nearly every town of note was
represented. Cleveland sent her women from the borders of
the lake; Cincinnati sent hers from the banks of the Ohio;
Columbus, Springfield, Toledo and Sydney were represented.
Not merely the leaders were there, but those who were
comparatively new to the cause; all in earnest,--young girls
in the first flush of youth, a new light dawning on their
lives and shining through their eyes, waiting, reaching
longing hands for this new gift to womanhood,--mothers on
the down-hill side of life, quietly but gladly expectant of
the good that was coming so surely to crown all these human
lives. Most of the speakers were western women--Mrs. Cutler,
Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Stewart, of Ohio, and Miss Boynton, of
Indiana. The East sent our own Susan B. Anthony, and Mrs.
Livermore of Boston. Like every other convention, it grew
more interesting the longer it continued, and just when the
speakers were so tired that they were glad the work for the
time was done, the listeners, like a whole army of Oliver
Twists, were crying for more. They are likely to have
more--a great deal more--before the work is done completely,
for it is evident the leaders don't intend to let the thing
rest where it is, but to push it forward to final success.
From the list of resolutions considered and adopted, I send
the following:

_Resolved_, That as the Democratic party has long since
abolished the political aristocracy of wealth; and the
Republican party has now abolished the aristocracy of race;
so the true spirit of Republican Democracy of the present,
demands the abolition of the political aristocracy of sex.

_Resolved_, That as the government of the United States has,
by the adoption of the fifteenth amendment, admitted the
theory that one man cannot define the rights and duties of
anothe