the greatest fraud he found there was that
one-half the people were not allowed to vote at all.

Messrs. Aiken and Florence, of the _Sunday Gazette_, were deeply
interested listeners throughout our Convention. On being
introduced to Mr. Florence, we expressed the hope that he would
now sharpen his pen and do valiant service for woman and help to
atone for all the injustice and ridicule of the press in the
past. He promptly pledged himself to defend our ideas valiantly
in the future. And he has started well in writing a glowing
editorial in his last paper, and giving two columns to our speech
on "Manhood Suffrage." To Senator Trumbull, who is Chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, all our petitions, appeals, and
addresses are referred. We hope he will not sink under such a
weight of responsibility, but read everything we send him with a
holy unction to the committee, and report favorably to the
Senate.

We learned from the Southern members that the South Carolina
delegation will go solid for woman suffrage. It has been a wonder
to us that Southern white women did not see the necessity of
their speedy enfranchisement, as a foreign race is, by the edicts
of the Republican party, exalted above their heads--made their
rulers, judges, jurors, and law-givers.

Friday evening, we went to Secretary McCulloch's and Mr. Colfax's
receptions. There we saw Mrs. Colfax for the first time; tall,
handsome, vigorous. We congratulated her on having won the most
popular man in America, whereupon the Vice-President elect smiled
and bowed profoundly, and we turned to greet glorious old Ben
Wade and his noble wife. Finance seemed to be the theme on all
sides, and we have our fears that the negroes, as well as the
women, will be lost sight of, in these discussions about the
currency. But this finance is a grave question, and the more we
read and think on it, the more we are convinced that the need of
money is the root of all evil. We were introduced to Professor
Helyard and Gen. Eaton, members of a scientific society of
gentlemen which meets once a week to discuss all that is in
heaven above, on the earth beneath, and in the waters under the
earth, without permitting a single one of Eve's daughters to
listen to the wisdom. They have lately discussed the subject