t was a most enthusiastic
meeting, and the press and the pulpit did their part to keep up
the discussion for many weeks after.

These resolutions, readily passed in the Milwaukee convention,
had been rejected at all others held in the West during this
campaign, although Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony had earnestly
advocated them everywhere. They early foresaw exactly what has
come to pass, and did their uttermost to rouse women to the
danger of having their enfranchisement indefinitely postponed.
They warned them that the debate once closed on negro suffrage,
and the amendments passed, the question would not be opened again
for a generation. But their warnings were unheeded. The fair
promises of Republicans and Abolitionists that, the negro
question settled, they would devote themselves to woman's
enfranchisement, deceived and silenced the majority. How well
they have kept their promises is fully shown in the fact that
although twenty years have passed, the political status of woman
remains unchanged. The Abolitionists have drifted into other
reforms, and the Republicans devote themselves to more
conservative measures. The Milwaukee convention was adjourned to
Madison, where Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony
addressed the legislature, Gov. Fairchild presiding.

In 1870, March 16, 17, a large and enthusiastic convention was
held at Janesville, in Lappin's Hall. Rev. Dr. Maxon, Lilia
Peckham and Mrs. Stanton were among the speakers. After this, the
latter being on a lyceum trip, spoke in many of the chief cities
of the State and drew general attention to the question.

The following clear statement of the petty ways in which girls
can be defrauded of their rights to a thorough education by
narrow, bigoted men entrusted with a little brief authority, is
from the pen of Lilia Peckham, a young girl of great promise, who
devoted her rare talents to the suffrage movement. Her early
death was an irreparable loss to the women of Wisconsin:[425]

ED. NEWS:--We find proofs at every step that one class
cannot legislate for another, the rich for the poor, nor men
for women.

The State University, supported by the taxes of the people
and for the benefit of the people, should offer equal
advantages to