strong soul so ardent in the pursuit of
knowledge, so filled with a desire to help her suffering sisters,
has been taken by that remorseless deep.

IX.--SOUTH CAROLINA.

The first action we hear of in South Carolina was a Woman's Right's
Convention in Columbia, Dec. 20, 1870, of which the Charleston
_Republican_ said:

The chairman, Miss Rollin, said: "It had been so universally the
custom to treat the idea of woman suffrage with ridicule and
merriment that it becomes necessary in submitting the subject for
earnest deliberation that we assure the gentlemen present that
our claim is made honestly and seriously. We ask suffrage not as
a favor, not as a privilege, but as a right based on the ground
that we are human beings, and as such, entitled to all human
rights. While we concede that woman's ennobling influence should
be confined chiefly to home and society, we claim that public
opinion has had a tendency to limit woman's sphere to too small a
circle, and until woman has the right of representation this will
last, and other rights will be held by an insecure tenure."

Mr. T. J. Mackey made a forcible argument in favor of the
movement. He was followed by Miss Hosley, who made a few brief
remarks upon the subject. General Moses thought woman's
introduction upon the political platform would benefit us much in
a moral point of view, and that they had a right to assist in
making the laws that govern them as well as the sterner sex.
Messrs. Cardozo, Pioneer and Rev. Mr. Harris followed in short
speeches, endorsing the movement and wishing it success.
Resolutions were adopted, and officers chosen.[533] The following
letters were read:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Columbia, Jan. 19, 1871.

_Miss L. M. Rollin_:--I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your invitation to be present at the preliminary
organization of the association for the assertion of woman's
rights in this State, and regret that the pressure of public
duties precludes my indulging myself in that pleasure. Be
assured, however, that the cause has my warmest sympathy,
and I indulge the hope that the time is not far distant when
woman shall be the peer of man in political rights, as she
is peerless in all others, and when