e a consummation.

Very respectfully yours, HOMER B. SPRAGUE.

Mrs. Helen Taylor, of London, after expressing the wish that she
might be with us, says:

It is a great delight to hear of the numerous societies, in
various countries, working well and vigorously for that
justice which for so long has been denied to women. The time
can not be far distant now, when we shall attain the right
of expressing our opinion by giving a vote.

Letters joining in the demand for a XVI. Amendment were received
from E. H. G. Clarke, of Troy, N. Y.; S. D. Dillaye, of Syracuse;
Martha B. Dickinson, Sarah Pugh, Mrs. E. K. Pugh, Abby Kimber, of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary J. O'Donovan-Rossa, and Hon. Jacob H.
Ela. The following extracts from private letters of Mrs. Hooker
show somewhat the spirit of the occasion.

WASHINGTON, January 19, 1870.

I have just come from a good meeting; just such a house as
we had at Hartford the mornings of our Convention. Senator
Pomeroy spoke admirably, and carried every one with him.
Then came Olympia Brown, and nothing could have been better
than her speech and the effect of it on the audience, which,
by the way, was earnest and intelligent. But Madam Anneke,
the German patriot who fought with her husband and slept
beside her horse in the field, carried the day over everyone
else. It was fairly overwhelming to hear her English, so
surcharged with feeling, yet so exact in the choice of
words, and the burden of it all was that the trials of the
battle-field were as naught compared to this inward struggle
of her soul toward liberty for woman. Her presence,
gestures, oratory, were simply magnificent.

Mrs. F., of Cincinnati, who lives here now, came to me this
morning with great warmth, saying she had brought two
Senators' wives who were opposed, and they said a few more
such women as Olympia Brown would convert them. She has
promised to bring them to our reception at the Arlington
this evening.

_Jan. 20._--We have had to hold a three days' meeting,
interest grew so fast. Yesterday morning Lincoln Hall
jammed, even aisles