sense, and is a bold denial of the oneness of
the human race.

The third objection is, that women do not wish to vote. If this
were true, it would not follow that they should not be
enfranchised, and left free to determine the matter for
themselves. It was confidently declared that the slaves at the
south neither wished to be free, nor would they take their
liberty if offered them by their masters. Had that assertion been
true, it would have furnished no justification whatever, for
making man the property of his fellow-man, or for leaving the
slaves in their fetters. But it was not true. Nor is it true that
women do not wish to vote. Tens of thousands are ready to go to
the polls and assume their share of political responsibility, as
soon as they shall be legally permitted to do so; and they are
not the ignorant and degraded of their sex, but women remarkable
for their intelligence and moral worth. The great mass will, ere
long, be sufficiently enlightened to claim what belongs to them
of right. I hope to be permitted to live to see the day when
neither complexion nor sex shall be made a badge of degradation,
but men and women shall enjoy the same rights and privileges, and
possess the same means for their protection and defense.

Very faithfully yours, WM. LLOYD GARRISON.

Mrs. A. S. WHITE.

At the close of this convention a State association was formed with
Mrs. Armenia S. White president.[190] This society has been
unremitting in its efforts to rouse popular thought, holding annual
conventions, scattering tracts, rolling up petitions, and
addressing legislatures. Many of the best speakers, from time to
time, from other States[191] have rendered valuable aid in keeping
up the agitation.

The opposition of a clergyman produced a sensation in Concord.

On last fast-day, 1871, Rev. S.L. Blake of the Congregational
church in Concord, preached a sermon in which he came out against
the woman's rights convention held there last January, bringing
the stale charge of "free-love" against its advocates--a charge
that always leaps to the lips of men of prurient
imagination--with much similar clap-trap of the Fulton type. Rev.
Mr. Sanborn of the Universalist church replied to him the next
Sunday evening, an immense audience being in attendance, and