have just returned from a very satisfactory and delightful
interview with Mrs. Hayes. She received me most cordially. I read
to her the eloquent address from the Citizens' Suffrage
Association. She listened with marked attention, was grateful for
the high favor conferred upon her, and sent her best wishes for
the success of the cause. I made reference to the fact that the
address bore the honored name of Lucretia Mott, which she
received with a ready acknowledgment of her great worth and
usefulness, and her distinguished place as a reformer and
philanthropist.

Through the liberality of Edward M. Davis, this society was able to
publish and circulate an immense number of tracts covering all
phases of the question. He has been one of the few abolitionists
who have thrown into this movement all the old-time fervor
manifested in the slavery conflict. A worthy son of the sainted
Lucretia Mott, her mantle seems to have fallen on his shoulders.

The Hon. John M. Broomall was ever ready to champion the cause of
equality of rights for women, not only in the legislature and in
the constitutional conventions of his own State, but on the floor
of congress as well. In a letter giving us valuable information on
several points, he says:

You ask when I made my first declaration for woman suffrage. I
cannot tell. I was born in 1816, and one of the earliest settled
convictions I formed as a man was that no person should be
discriminated against on account of sect, sex, race or color, but
that all should have an equal chance in the race which the Divine
Ruler has set before all; and I never missed an opportunity to
give utterance to this conviction in conversation, on the stump,
on the platform and in legislative bodies. My views were set out
concisely in my remarks in congress, on January 30, 1869, and I
cite the commencement and conclusion, as I find them in _The
Globe_ of that date:

Every person owing allegiance to the government and not
under the legal control of another, should have an equal
voice in making and administering the laws, unless debarred
for violating those laws; and in this I make no distinction
of wealth, intelligence, race, family or sex. If just
government is founded upon the consent of the governed, and
if the established mode of consent is t