Sarah Wallis, Mrs. Knox and Mrs. Watson, of Santa
Clara county. In our schools and colleges, in every avenue of
industry, and in the general liberalization of public opinion
there has been marked improvement.

Yours very truly,
LAURA DEFORCE GORDON,
_Pres. California W. S. S._ (Incorporated).

Mrs. Stanton's letter to _The Ballot-Box_ briefly sums up the
proceedings of the convention:

TENAFLY, N. J., January 24, 1877.

DEAR EDITOR: If the little _Ballot-Box_ is not already stuffed to
repletion with reports from Washington, I crave a little space to
tell your readers that the convention was in all points
successful. Lincoln Hall, which seats about fifteen hundred
people, was crowded every session. The speaking was good, order
reigned, no heart-burnings behind the scenes, and the press
vouchsafed "respectful consideration."

The resolutions you will find more interesting and suggestive
than that kind of literature usually is, and I ask especial
attention to the one for a national convention to revise the
constitution, which, with all its amendments, is like a kite with
a tail of infinite length still to be lengthened. It is evident a
century of experience has so liberalized the minds of the
American people, that they have outgrown the constitution adapted
to the men of 1776. It is a monarchial document with republican
ideas engrafted in it, full of compromises between antagonistic
principles. An American statesman remarked that "The civil war
was fought to expound the constitution on the question of
slavery." Expensive expounding! Instead of further amending and
expounding, the real work at the dawn of our second century is to
make a new one. Again, I ask the attention of our women to the
educational resolution. After much thought it seems to me we
should have education compulsory in every State of the Union, and
make it the basis of suffrage, a national law, requiring that
those who vote after 1880 must be able to read and write the
English language. This would prevent ignorant foreigners voting
in six months after landing on our shores, and stimulate our
native population to higher intelligence. It would dignify and
purify the ballot-box and add safet