What we need now is to
accustom the public to these radical truths. Demand the
ballot; demand woman's freedom. It is not a conflict of
argument or reason, so much as a crusade against habit and
prejudice. To tell the truth, I don't think there is a
respectable argument in the world against woman suffrage.
People think they are arguing or reasoning against it when
they are in fact only repeating the prejudices in which they
have been trained. With the sincerest wishes for the success
of your meeting and of all your efforts for woman suffrage,
I remain, yours very truly,

D. H. CHAMBERLAIN.

The American association memorialized the legislature March 13,
1872. The joint committee recommended an amendment to the
constitution of the State, providing that every person, male or
female, possessed of the necessary qualifications, should be
entitled to vote. B. F. Whittemore, H. J. Maxwell, W. B. Nash, G.
F. McIntyre, were the committee on the part of the Senate; C. D.
Hayne, W. J. Whipper, Benj. Byas, B. G. Yocom, F. H. Frost,
committee on the part of the House.

In the debate in congress in 1874, Hon. Alonzo J. Ransier of South
Carolina, the civil-rights bill being under discussion, claimed
that equal human rights should be extended to women as follows:

And may the day be not far distant when American citizenship in
civil and political rights and public privileges shall cover not
only those of our sex, but those of the opposite one also; until
which time the government of the United States cannot be said to
rest upon the "consent of the governed," or to adequately protect
them in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Miss Sallie R. Banks, for some years a teacher of colored schools
in South Carolina, has been appointed collector of internal revenue
for the Sumter district.

X.--FLORIDA.

In 1880, the agricultural department at Washington, paid a premium
of $12 to Madame Atzeroth of Manatee, for the first pound of coffee
ever grown out of doors in the United States.

The following is from a letter to the Savannah _News_, reporting a
judgment rendered by a Florida county judge, in a case between an
old black man and his wife:

OCALA, Fla., May 12, 1874.

Be it known throughout all christendom