frequently not at all considered. This last year they were
referred to committees, and often debated at great length in the
legislatures, and in some cases motions to submit to the people
of the State an amendment to the State Constitution doing away
with the distinction of sex in the matter of suffrage was
rejected by very small majorities. In one State, that of Nevada,
such a motion was carried; and the question will shortly be
submitted to the people of the State. A number of important and
very successful conventions have been held in the Western States,
and have made a decided impression. But what is most significant
is, that newspapers of all shades of opinion are giving a great
deal of space to this subject. It is recognized as among the
great questions of the age, which can not be put down until it is
settled upon the basis of immutable justice and right. The report
was unanimously accepted and adopted.

Rev. O. B. FROTHINGHAM.--I am not here this morning thinking that
I can add any thing to the strength of the cause, but thinking
that perhaps I may gain something from the generous, sweet
atmosphere that I am sure will prevail. This is a meeting, if I
understand it, of the former Woman's Rights Association, and the
subjects which come before us properly are the subjects which
concern woman in all her social, civil, and domestic life. But
the one question which is of vital moment and of sole prominence,
is that of suffrage. All other questions have been virtually
decided in favor of woman. She has the _entree_ to all the fields
of labor. She is now the teacher, preacher, artist, she has a
place in the scientific world--in the literary world. She is a
journalist, a maker of books, a public reader; in fact, there is
no position which woman, as woman, is not entitled to hold. But
there is one position that woman, as woman, does not occupy, and
that is the position of a voter. One field alone she does not
possess, and that is the political field; one work she is not
permitted, and that is the work of making laws. This question
goes down to the bottom--it touches the vital matter of woman's
relation to the State.... Is there anything in the constitution
of the female mind, to disqualify her for the exercise of the
franchise. As long as t