tore an age of semi-barbarism, but to hasten the
advent of a new and far more golden era, when there will be no
dangerous pilgrimage of years' duration to win back the Holy
Sepulchre, but a far more divine and sacred inheritance shall
have been sought and found; namely, freedom for woman to exercise
every right, capacity, and power with which God has endowed her.

If there are any natural rights, then they belong to all by
virtue of our humanity, and are not graduated by degrees of
superiority. If the privilege of voting had been limited to those
men who were strong in mind and morals, we should never have had
a Governor's signature to "the black laws of Ohio."

It is perverse and cruel to raise the cry that we make war upon
domestic life; that we would destroy its natural order and
attraction by allowing woman to mingle in the coarse and noisy
scenes of political life. Is not the aid of man equally important
in the family, and would his necessary duties in the home
conflict with his duties as a citizen and a patriot?

Man can not wrong and oppress woman without jeopardizing his own
liberty. Cramped and crippled as she may be by inexorable law,
she avenges herself, and decides his destiny. So long as woman is
outlawed, man pays the penalty in ignorance, poverty, and
suffering. Our interests are one, we rise or fall together.

Sisters of Indiana, accept my heartfelt sympathy in the work you
have undertaken. It is well for the pioneers of a new country to
call down God's blessing on their labors by an early claim to an
equality of rights.

Yours, for justice to all, ESTHER ANN LUKENS.

Having never met the brave women who endured the first shower of
ridicule in Indiana, we asked to be introduced to them in some brief
pen-sketches, and in the following manner they present themselves:

REV. AMANDA M. WAY

may be truthfully called the mother of "The Woman Suffrage
Association" in Indiana organized in 1851, and took an active
part in all the Conventions until she became a resident in Kansas
in 1872. Miss Way was always an abolitionist, a prohibitionist,
and an uncompromising suffragist--the great pioneer of all
reforms. It is amusing to hear how many places she has been the
first to fill; yet she has done it al