ose who are high and holy now,
would be high and holy then, and would be joined by an
innumerable company of just spirits from among those whose
energies are now pining and fretting in enforced idleness, or
unworthy frivolity, or brought down into pursuits and aims which
are anything but pure and peaceable.

In regard to the old controversy--Influence vs. Office--it
appears to me that if Influence is good and Office bad for human
morals and character, Man's present position is one of such
hardship, as it is almost profane to contemplate; and if, on the
contrary, Office is good and a life of Influence is bad, Woman
has an instant right to claim that her position be amended.

Yours faithfully, HARRIET MARTINEAU.

From her letter, we find, that Miss Martineau shared the common
opinion in England that the article in the _Westminster Review_ on the
"Enfranchisement of Woman" was written by John Stuart Mill. It was
certainly very complimentary to Mrs. Taylor, the real author of that
paper, who afterward married Mr. Mill, that it should have been
supposed to emanate from the pen of that distinguished philosopher. An
amusing incident is related of Mr. Mill, for the truth of which we can
not vouch, but report says, that after reading this article, he
hastened to read it again to Mrs. Taylor, and passing on it the
highest praises, to his great surprise she confessed herself the
author.

At this Convention Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith made her first
appearance on our platform. She was well known in the literary circles
of New York as a writer of merit in journals and periodicals. She
defended the Convention and its leaders through the columns of the
_New York Tribune_, and afterward published a series of articles
entitled "Woman and her Needs." She early made her way into the
lyceums and some pulpits never before open to woman. Her "Bertha and
Lily," a woman's rights novel, and her other writings were influential
in moulding popular thought.

Angelina Grimke, familiar with plantation life, spoke eloquently on
the parallel between the slave code and the laws for married women.

Mehitable Haskell, of Gloucester, said:

Perhaps, my friends, I ought to apologize for standing here.
Perhaps I attach too much importance to my own age. This meeting,
as I understand it, was called to discuss Woman's Rights. Well, I
do not pr