inance Committee_--Susan B. Anthony, Rochester; Phebe H.
Merritt, Michigan; H. M. Addison, Ohio; Hettie Little, Ohio; E.
P. Heaton, Ohio.

Letters were read from distinguished people. Notably the following
from Horace Greeley:

NEW YORK, _Oct. 2, 1853_.

DEAR MADAM:--I have received yours of the 26th, this moment. I do
not see that my presence in Cleveland could be of any service.
The question to be considered concerns principally woman, and
women should mostly consider it. I recognize most thoroughly the
right of woman to choose her own sphere of activity and
usefulness, and to evoke its proper limitations. If she sees fit
to navigate vessels, print newspapers, frame laws, select
rulers--any or all of these--I know no principle that justifies
man in interposing any impediment to her doing so. The only
argument entitled to any weight against the fullest concession of
the rights you demand, rests in the assumption that woman does
not claim any such rights, but chooses to be ruled, guided,
impelled, and have her sphere prescribed for her by man.

I think the present state of our laws respecting property and
inheritance, as respects married women, show very clearly that
woman ought not to be satisfied with her present position; yet it
may be that she is so. If all those who have never given this
matter a serious thought are to be considered on the side of
conservatism, of course that side must preponderate. Be this as
it may, woman alone can, in the present state of the controversy,
speak effectively for woman, since none others can speak with
authority, or from the depths of a personal experience.

Hoping that your Convention may result in the opening of many
eyes, and the elevation of many minds from light to graver
themes,

I remain yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
MRS. C. M. SEVERANCE,
Cleveland, Ohio.

And here let us pay our tribute of gratitude to Horace Greeley. In
those early days when he, as editor of the _New York Tribune_, was one
of the most popular men in the nation, his word almost law to the
people, his journal was ever true to woman. No ridicule of our cause,
no sneers at its advocates, found a place in _The Tribune_; but more
than once, he gav