tice to give extracts from them:

"'I doubt whether a more important movement has ever been
launched, touching the destiny of the race, than this in
regard to the equality of the sexes. You are at liberty to
use my name. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.'

"'You do me but justice in supposing me deeply interested in the
question of woman's elevation. CATHERINE M. SEDGWICK.'

"'The new movement has my fullest sympathy, and my name is at
its service. WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING.'

"None came with such perfect and entire fullness as the one from which
I quote the closing paragraph:

"'Yes, with all my heart I give my name to your noble call.
"'ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.'

"'You are at liberty to append my own and my wife's name to your
admirable call, "'ANN GREEN PHILLIPS,
"'WENDELL PHILLIPS.'

"Rev. Samuel J. May's letter, full of the warmest sympathy, well
deserves to be quoted entire, but space forbids; suffice it that we
have always known just where to find him.

"'Your business is to launch new ideas--not one of them will ever
be wrecked or lost. Under the dominion of these ideas, right
practice must gradually take the place of wrong, and the first we
shall know we shall find the social swallowing up the political,
and the whole governing its parts.
"'With genuine respect, your co-worker,
"'MRS. PAULINA W. DAVIS. ELIZUR WRIGHT.'

"Letters from Gerrit Smith, Joshua R. Giddings, John G. Whittier,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, A. Bronson Alcott, Caroline Kirkland, Ann Estelle
Lewis, Jane G. Swisshelm, William Elder, Rev. Thomas Brainard, and
many others, expressive of deep interest, are before us.

"The Convention came together in the bright October days, a solemn,
earnest crowd of noble men and women.

"One great disappointment fell upon us. Margaret Fuller, toward whom
many eyes were turned as the future leader in this movement, was not
with us. The 'hungry, ravening sea,' had swallowed her up, and we were
left to mourn her guiding hand--her royal presence. To her, I, at
least, had hoped to confide the leadership of this movement. It can
never be known if she would have accepted it; the desire had been
expressed to h