mpathy and left to perish
because we are too "delicate" to come to their assistance! These
may be daughters of good people, and may once have been good and
pure as any. They might be your daughters or mine. Brothers, they
might be your sisters or your daughters! Oh! change the laws that
bear so hard on women. Give us such laws as will allow your wives
and mothers--those in whom you have confidence and whom you
love--to come, with a mother's heart, and help rescue these
deserted and fallen and miserable ones.

LUCY STONE here read a letter of regret from William Lloyd
Garrison, in which he stated that he was ill and confined to his
bed, and therefore unable to be present. She read, also, a letter
from Mrs. Haskell, of California, expressing earnest and hearty
sympathy in all that is done at the East for woman suffrage, and
the assurance that on the Pacific slope the good work is becoming
daily stronger and more hopeful.

Mrs. TAPPAN gave an interesting account of some of the Indian
tribes in Mexico and California, who, she thought, had in one
sense a higher idea of the capacity of woman than their more
civilized brethren. The Navajos, on one occasion, when a United
States Commission composed of General Sherman, General Terry, and
other officers of the army, went to them to treat with them on
behalf of the Government, refused to enter the officer's quarters
for the purpose of discussion or decision of their difficulties,
unless their squaws were permitted to participate in the
deliberations, and the officers were obliged to allow the women
to come in.

The evening session of the convention was called to order by LUCY
STONE. Steinway Hall was filled with an earnest and interested
assembly, numbering about a thousand persons.

Mrs. CHURCHILL, of Providence, R. I., was the first speaker. She
spoke at some length, and asserted the undoubted right of women
to the suffrage. She referred to the fear which men entertained,
or pretended to entertain, of women neglecting every other duty
attaching to them simply because they should get suffrage. Men do
not find voting so exceedingly incompatible with the other duties
of life that they should have such fear of woman suffrage. Women
are not asking for _bon-bons_ in this matter. They are demanding