ern and New England States.

VI.--VIRGINIA.

In the winter of 1870, immediately after the National Washington
convention, Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, while spending a few days in
Richmond, formed the acquaintance of Mrs. Anna Whitehead Bodeker, a
most earnest advocate of the ballot for women. Mrs. Davis held a
parlor meeting in the home of Mrs. Bodeker, enlisting the interest
of several prominent citizens of Richmond, who very soon invited
Mrs. Joslyn Gage to their city to give a series of lectures. Of the
result of this visit we give Mrs. Bodeker's report as published in
_The Revolution_ of May, 1870:

DEAR REVOLUTION:--I glory in announcing a grand achievement in
the great reform of the day in Virginia. Our energetic and heroic
leader, Mrs. M. Joslyn Gage, after giant efforts on her part, and
with the aid of some strong advocates of the reform, on Friday
evening, May 6, 1870, organized in the city of Richmond a
Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association. The whole proceedings
I here append, for immediate publication in your columns.

Mrs. Gage, advisory counsel for New York, in the National Woman
Suffrage Association of America, delivered a lecture upon
"Opportunity for Woman," at Bosher's Hall, corner of Ninth and
Main streets, on Thursday evening. The lecture was able, earnest
and eloquent, and was listened to with rapt attention by the
friends of the cause present. At its conclusion, Judge John C.
Underwood gave notice that on the following evening a meeting
would be held at the United States Court room (which he freely
proffered for the purpose) to organize a State Association, adopt
a constitution, elect officers, and appoint delegates to the
anniversary of the National Association soon to be held in New
York city. The judge remarked that, upon conversing with Governor
Wise upon the subject, he expressed his warm sympathy with the
objects of the movement save upon the question of giving women
the ballot. With all the other rights claimed, he was heartily in
accord; especially, he thought, should the professions be opened
to women, more particularly the medical, they being the natural
physicians of their sex and of children.

Pursuant to the above notice, a meeting was held in the United
States court-room. Judge John C. Underwood was called to preside.
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