Tuesday evening a full hall greeted the speakers. The
Cincinnati _Gazette_ said:

The first meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association
at the Melodeon Hall last evening, was one that would do
credit to any cause. The large hall was nearly filled with
people who would rank high in intelligence and good standing
in this cultured community. And the fact that the larger
portion were women meets the objection often made to this
movement, that the women themselves are not in favor of
suffrage for themselves.

Rev. W. C. WENDTE, the first speaker of the evening, said: Woman
should not only be allowed a fair chance so far as business and
the administration of an estate is concerned; every woman ought
to have the ballot. Many will say, I believe woman ought to have
the right to equal education, wages, carry on business, and
choose any vocation she wants, but doubt after all whether it is
best to put upon her the responsibility of the ballot. We have
not a very exalted opinion of our right to vote, and this
objection is often made with a kindly, honest, and earnest fear
that she will drag herself down to the low filth of politics.
Leave out the ballot, and woman's rights is like a pyramid
without the apex, or, better still, like building a temple
without the corner stone. I have no Utopian notions concerning
the immediate effect of woman's voting. I do not think the
millennium is coming when she can vote. But if women could vote
it would not be possible for those disreputable shows on Vine
street, the foulest and filthiest that ever disgraced a Christian
city, to continue one day longer. They would be put down by the
overwhelming power of moral sentiment of the mothers, sisters,
wives, and sweethearts, expressed at the ballot-box; and the men
who are now so derelict, careless and indolent, will be wakened
up to some earnestness against those exhibitions.

I will say, in conclusion, that I most heartily welcome these
women among us, some of whom, like Mrs. Lucy Stone, have labored
long and faithfully. I would say that you may come up like Moses
of old, and see the promised land, and unlike him, unless all
signs fail, you shall enter and receive the just reward of all
your toil. The time is coming w