erks, justices of
the peace, commissioners of highways, overseers of the poor, and
numerous others. If women are physically and mentally fitted for
one class of these stations, they are equally so for the others.

But at this period in the history of the world such enactments as
the present hardly comport with the wisdom and dignity of
legislation. The God of nature has appointed different fields of
labor, duty and usefulness for the sexes. His decrees cannot be
changed by human legislation. In the education of our children
the mother stands far above all superintendents, commissioners,
trustees and school teachers. Her influence in the family, in
social intercourse and enterprises, outweighs all the mere
machinery of benevolence and education. To lower her from the
high and holy place given her by nature, is to degrade her power
and to injure rather than benefit the cause of education itself.
In all enlightened and Christian nations the experience and
observations of ages have illustrated and defined the relative
duties of the sexes in promoting the best interests of society.
Few, if any, of the intelligent and right-minded among women
desire or would be willing to accept the change which such a law
would inaugurate.

The bill is moreover a clear infraction of the spirit if not the
letter of the constitution. Under that instrument women have no
right to vote, and it cannot be supposed that it is the intention
of the constitution that persons not entitled to the right of
suffrage should be eligible to some of the most important offices
in the State.

L. ROBINSON.

On May 24, 25, 1877, the National and State conventions were again
held in New York, at Steinway Hall. Both conventions passed
resolutions denouncing Governor Robinson's action in his veto. The
following address was issued by the State association:

_To the Voters and Legislators of New York:_

The women of the State of New York, in convention assembled, do
most earnestly protest against the injustice with which they are
treated by the State, where in point of numbers they are in
excess of the men:

_First_--They are denied the right of choosing their own
rulers, but are compelled to submit to the choice of a
minority consist