to woman's credit she has not sought office, she is
not a natural office-seeker, but she desires to vote, has
preferences and exercises her rights. The superintendents in
nearly all the counties are women. They have taken a deep
interest in school matters and as a rule they control school
meetings. Three-fourths of the voters present at these are women.
In Cheyenne they alone seem to have the time to attend. Give
woman this right to vote and she will make out of the boys men
more capable of exercising it. I have seen the results and am
satisfied that every woman should have the suffrage.

Mrs. Carey sat on the platform with Miss Anthony, Mrs. Hooker and
other prominent members of the convention. The eloquent address of
Mrs. May Wright Sewall (Ind.) on The Conditions of Liberty attracted
special attention. Mrs. Caroline Gilkey Rogers (N. Y.) proved in an
original manner that There is Nothing New under the Sun. In a
statesmanlike paper Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage (N. Y.) set forth the
authority of Congress to secure to woman her right to the ballot:

To protect all citizens in the use of the ballot by national
authority is not to deprive the States of the right of local
self-government. When Andrew Jackson, who had been elected as a
State's Rights man, asserted the supremacy of the National
Government, that assertion, carried out as it was, did not
deprive States of their power of self-government. Neither did the
Reconstruction Acts nor the adoption of the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments. Yet in many ways it is proved that States
are not sovereign. Besides their inability to coin money, to
declare peace and war, they are proved by their own acts not even
to be self-protective. If women as individuals, as one-half of
the people, call upon the nation for protection, they are doing
no more nor less than so-called sovereign States themselves do.
National aid has been frequently asked to preserve peace, or to
insure that protection found impossible under mere local or State
authority....

In ratifying an amendment States become factors in the nation,
the same as by the acts of their representatives and senators in
Congress. A law created by themselves in this way can be no
interference with their local rights of self-government; because
in helping enact these laws, either th