citizenship in a republic.

Caroline Ashurst Biggs, editor of the _Englishwoman's Review_,
London, wrote:

I have read with great interest in the _National Citizen_ and the
_Woman's Journal_ the announcement of the forthcoming convention
in Rochester. * * * I cannot refrain from sending you a cordial
English congratulation upon the great advance in the social and
legal position of women in America, which has been the result of
your labor. The next few years will see still greater progress.
As soon as the suffrage is granted to women, a concession which
will not be many years in coming either in England or America,
every one of our questions will advance with double force, and
meanwhile our efforts in that direction are simultaneously
helping forward other social, legal, educational and moral
reforms. Our organization in England does not date back so far as
yours. There were only a few isolated thinkers when Mrs. John
Stuart Mill wrote her essay on the enfranchisement of women in
1851. For twenty years, however, it has progressed with few
drawbacks. In some particulars the English laws in respect of
women are in advance of yours, but the connection between England
and America is so close that a gain to one is a gain to the
other.

Lydia E. Becker, editor of the _Women's Suffrage Journal_,
Manchester, England, wrote:

* * * I beg to offer to the venerable pioneers of the movement,
more especially to Lucretia Mott, a tribute of respectful
admiration and gratitude for the services they have rendered in
the cause of enfranchisement. * * * As regards the United
kingdom, the movement in a practical form is but twelve years
old, and in that period, although we have not obtained the
parliamentary franchise, we have seen it supported by at least
one-third of the House of Commons, and our claim admitted as one
which must be dealt with in future measures of parliamentary
reform. We have obtained the municipal franchise and the
school-board franchise. Women have secured the right to enter the
medical profession and to take degrees in the University of
London, besides considerable amendment of the law regarding
married women, though much remains to be done.

Senator Sargent, since minister to Berlin, wrote:

I regret that the necessity to proceed at once to