prevailing sentiment.
Editors who have been battling the new reform with a zeal equaled
only by that manifested against abolitionism a few years since,
can see no necessary connection between the new movement and the
general cause of woman's emancipation. Whether necessary or not,
there is a practical connection between them which is being felt
more and more every day. I assert, with no fear of contradiction
by any observing man, that Vermont is no more committed against
woman suffrage than any other State in the East, and the fact
that but one man in our late convention voted to extend the right
of suffrage to all, can well be explained when we consider the
manner of choosing delegates by towns; one town, for instance,
with twelve voters, having the same voice in the representation
that this city has with 1,500. With a popular vote upon that
question the State would give such a majority as would fairly
astonish all those who regarded the late convention as a complete
demolition of the "reformers."

ST. ANDREW.

The following criticism of the Rev. Mr. Holmes, from the pen of a
woman, shows the growing self-assertion of a class hitherto held in
a condition of subordination by clerical authority. Such
tergiversation in the pulpit as his has done much to emancipate
woman from the reverence she once felt for the teaching of those
supposed to be divinely ordained of heaven:

BENSON, Vt., June 20, 1871.

I have heard it stated from the pulpit within a year that the
woman suffrage question in Vermont is dead. Well, we believe in
the resurrection. Week by week this question of the hour and of
the age confronts those who claim to have given it decent burial.
The same clergyman who pronounced it dead has since spoken of it
as one of the "growing evils of the times," and in this beautiful
summer weather he has felt called upon to preach another sermon,
ostensibly on "marriage," really upon this "dead question,"
dragging it out to daylight again, that we might see how easily
he could bury it fifty fathoms deep--with mud. It reminded me of
Robert Laird Collier's sermon, "The Folly of the Woman Movement,"
in its logic and its spirit. Mr. Collier and our Mr. Holmes see
but one thing in all this struggle for t