tory is won.

Most heartily yours for woman suffrage and all other reforms.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps wrote: "With all my head and with all my heart
I believe in womanhood suffrage; can I say more for your convention?"
and from the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston, "Every word spoken
for or against our cause helps it forward. I feel that there is a
current of conviction sweeping us on toward the day when there shall
be neither male nor female, in Church or State, but equal rights for
all, and the tools to those who can use them."

Chief-Justice Greene, of Washington Territory, sent a careful
statistical computation in regard to the women's votes, and said: "My
sober judgment, from the best light I have succeeded in getting, is
that at our last general election the women cast as full or a fuller
vote than the men in proportion to their numbers." Mrs. Livermore
wrote:

Whatever may be the apparent direction of the ripples on the
surface, facts which accumulate daily show us that the cause of
woman's enfranchisement progresses with a deep and steady
undercurrent. The long, weary, faithful work of the past,
covering almost half a century, has resulted in a radical change
of public opinion. It has opened to woman the doors of colleges,
universities and professional schools; it has increased her
opportunities for self-support till the United States census
enumerates nearly 300 employments in which women are working and
earning livelihoods; it has repealed many of the unjust laws
which discriminate against woman; it has given her partial
suffrage in twelve States and full suffrage in three Territories.

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of
persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will
be recognized as the legal equals of men; for the goal towards
which we toil is the enfranchisement of women, since the ballot
is the only symbol of legal equality that is known in a republic.

Chancellor Wm. G. Eliot, of Washington University, St. Louis, wrote:

Considered as a _right_, suffrage belongs equally to man and
woman. They are equally citizens and taxpayers. They share
equally in the advantages of good government and suffer equally
from bad legislation. They equally need the right of
self-protection which the ballot alone can give. In average good,
practical sense,