erages of intelligence and virtue; with an innate conviction,
that the sequestration of rights in the homes of the republic
makes them baneful nurseries of the monopolies, rings, and
fraudulent practices that are threatening the national integrity;
and that so long as the fathers sequester the rights of the
mothers and train their sons to exercise, and the daughters to
submit to the exactions of usurped powers, our government offices
will be dens of thieves and the national honor trail in the dust;
and honest men come out from the fiery ordeals of faithful
service, denuded of the confidence and respect justly their due.
Give us liberty! We are mothers, wives, and daughters of freemen.

C. I. H. NICHOLS.

LONDON, Eng., July 4, 1876.

MY DEAR SUSAN: I sincerely thank you for your kind letter. Many
times I have thought of writing to you, but I knew your time was
too much taken up with the good cause to have any to spare for
private correspondence. Occasionally I am pleased to see a good
account of you and your doings in the Boston _Investigator_. Oh,
how I wish I could be with you on this more than ordinarily
interesting and important occasion; or that I could at least send
my sentiments and views on human rights, which I have advocated
for over forty years, to the convention.

This being the centenary day of the proclamation of American
independence, I must write a few lines, if but to let the friends
know that though absent in body I am with you in the cause for
which, in common with you, I have labored so long, and I hope not
labored in vain.

The glorious day upon which human equality was first proclaimed
ought to be commemorated, not only every hundred years, or every
year, but it ought to be constantly held before the public mind
until its grand principles are carried into practice. The
declaration that "All men [which means all human beings
irrespective of sex] have an equal right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness," is enough for woman as for man. We
need no other; but we must reassert in 1876 what 1776 so
gloriously proclaimed, and call upon the law-makers and the
law-breakers to carry that declaration to its logical consistency
by giving w