eir seats, and those in favor to retain them. About
sixteen ladies arose, amidst great mirth and laughter.

THE CHAIR then announced that the meeting had expressed itself
largely in favor of female suffrage.

Madam ANNEKE, a German lady, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stated
that, being a foreigner, allowance should be made for her
defective pronunciation. If she could not speak the English
language, she could speak the language of the heart. She came
from the West, burdened heavily with petitions, signed by one
thousand residents of the State of Wisconsin. She would appeal to
her countrymen, Carl Schurz and Finkelnburg, to assist in this
last struggle for universal liberty.

The Rev. OLYMPIA BROWN addressed herself particularly to that
small minority of ladies who had expressed themselves opposed to
the XVI. Amendment. She admired their independence of character,
for it showed they were the kind of women that the friends of
woman suffrage wished to win over to their cause. She thought
them honest in their opinions, but prejudiced. It required strong
minds to combat against the common enemy--prejudice. They may
think they do not require this right, as they might be blessed
with comfortable homes, and be satisfied with the condition they
were in. A change might come--even to them, but if it did not,
ought they not to pity other women whose situation was less
comfortable than their own? She alluded to the idle lives of
young women, to which they were condemned by the customs of
society, and said Christianity demanded a useful life from every
woman as well as every man. This cause is the cause of the
civilized world, and will go on till the ballot is in the hands
of every American woman.

Mr. STILLMAN, of R. I., had no doubt that the result of this
agitation would be to secure the universal franchise of all
women. Women would be admitted to all colleges of the land, and
to the study of the arts and sciences.

Miss ANTHONY said that Senator Pomeroy's being here to advocate
woman suffrage, might be attributed to the fact that he had a
constituency to sustain him. Let the people of other States make
as strong an expression as Kansas, and their representatives
would quickly find their places here too. She wanted women to
emigrate to Wyoming