me. I
left my country, not flying, but deliberately. I chose to make
this country my home, in preference to any other, because if you
carried out the theories you profess, it would indeed be the
noblest country on earth. And as my countrymen so nobly aided in
the physical struggle for Freedom and Independence, I felt, and
still feel it equally my duty to use my humble abilities to the
uttermost in my power, to aid in the great moral struggle for
human rights and human freedom.

Hoping that you will acede to my (I think) just claim to give
this a place in your paper,

I am, very respectfully,
ERNESTINE L. ROSE.
NEW YORK, _Mar. 7, 1854_.

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING asks the following questions in the _Albany
Evening Journal_:

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

A lady actively and prominently connected with, the movement
which is expected to secure "justice to woman," personally
requested us to publish the following communication. It is
proper to state that it is written in reply to an article of one
of our morning contemporaries, published a day or two ago:

"Let us take it for granted that your pop-gun of pleasantry has
killed off the six thousand 'strong-minded' women and
'weak-minded' men who signed the petitions to the Legislature for
Justice to Woman. And thus having disposed of personalities, will
you be pleased to pass on to a discussion of the following
questions:

"1. Are women, in New York, persons, people, citizens, members of
the State? If they are not, then why are they numbered in the
census, taxed by assessors, and subjected to legal penalties? If
they are, then why is authority exercised over them without their
consent asked or granted?

"2. If among the male half of the people, only criminals, aliens,
and minors are excluded from the right of suffrage are all women
excluded from exercising this right, on the ground of
criminality, idiocy, foreign associations, or infantile
imbecility?

"3. If the mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of New York are
the peers and equals of their fathers, brothers, husbands, and
sons, why should they not enjoy all civil and political rights
equally with them? If they are, on the contrary,