utions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked
women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials for
heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the
branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have
all been for this purpose.

We know the ignorance that exists upon these points. Few have yet
begun to comprehend the influence that ecclesiasticism has had
upon law. Wharton, a recognized authority upon criminal law,
issued his seventh edition before he ascertained the vast bearing
canon law had had upon the civil code, and we advise readers to
consult the array of authorities, English, Latin, German, to
which he, in his preface, refers. We hope to arouse attention
and compel investigation of this subject by lawyers and
theologians as well as by women themselves.

Francis E. Abbot, editor of _The Index_, the organ of the Free
Religious Association, spoke grandly in favor of the resolutions.
He said:

These resolutions we have read with astonishment, admiration and
delight. We should not have believed it possible that the
convention could have been induced to adopt them. They will make
forever memorable in the history of the organized woman movement,
this thirtieth anniversary of its birth. They put the National
Woman Suffrage Association in an inconceivably higher and nobler
position than that occupied by any similar society. They go to
the very root of the matter. They are a bold, dignified, and
magnificent utterance. We congratulate the convention on a record
so splendid in the eyes of all true liberals. From this day forth
the whole woman movement must obey the inspiration of a higher
courage and a grander spirit than have been known to its past.
Opposition must be encountered, tenfold more bitter than was ever
yet experienced. But truth is on the side of these brave women;
the ringing words they have spoken at Rochester will thrill many
a doubting heart and be echoed far down the long avenue of the
years.

During the same week of the Rochester convention, the Paris
International Congress opened it sessions, sending us a telegram of
greeting to which we responded with two hundred and fifty francs as
a tangible evidence of our best wishes. The two remarkable features
of that congress were the promise of so distinguished a man as
Victor H