ys Euripides, "whom men adore by night." And
Sophocles: "Seek not thy fellow-citizens to guide till thou
canst order well thine own fireside." Mrs. Alcott and Louisa
join in hearty hopes for your success.

EDNA D. CHENEY wrote: * * * How I long for the time when
this question being settled, we can all go forward, working
together, to discuss and settle the really great questions
of political and social economy, of labor, of education, and
the full development of human life in State and society.

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER wrote: * * * I hope and trust the
electors will be wise and generous enough to decide it in
your favor. Were I a citizen of the State I should esteem it
alike a duty and a privilege to vote in the affirmative.

ASA MAHAN, president of Oberlin College, wrote: The cause
which has called you together is a very plain one. It is
simply this, whether "taxation without representation" is
tyranny to all but one-half of the human race, and the
principle that rulers derive their authority to make and
administer law from the consent of the governed, holds true
of the white man and the black man, of man native or foreign
born, and even of the "heathen Chinee," if he belong to the
male sex, and is a lie in its application to woman.[312]

Dr. Stone, of Kalamazoo, read an able report of what had been
done, and all it was necessary to do if the friends desired to
carry the pending amendment. The following extract will give some
idea of the momentous undertaking in canvassing a State:

When the governor decided to call an extra session of the
legislature, so as to submit the new constitution to a
popular vote next November, the committee had but little
time for the circulation of petitions; but enough was done
to secure the vote in favor of submission. This was the more
easily accomplished because we have in the present
legislature so many warm and active friends, who gave that
body no rest until their point was carried. And here we find
ourselves suddenly brought into a campaign almost as novel
as momentous, with scarce a precedent to guide us. We ask
the electors of Michigan to shar