eneral cleaning out of the
whole body. There is no immediate prospect of such an event, but
"hell hath no furies like a woman scorned." Long and loud have
been the appeals of the fair sex for recognition at the
ballot-box. With that faithful zeal so truly characteristic of
her sex, she has each time, for many years in the history of this
country, presented herself before the curious gaze of our
national conventions, asking, with no little stress of argument,
for a woman's plank in the platforms. If she has been heard at
all in the framed resolutions of the parties, the feeling
prevailing in the conventions has been rather to pacify and put
her off, than to grant her request through motives of political
policy. If perseverance is to be awarded, the agitators of the
woman question will yet carry off the prize they seek. Death
alone can silence such women as Susan B. Anthony and Cady
Stanton, and their teachings will live after them and unite
others of their sex into strong bands of sisterhood in a common
cause. It is safe to say, if events march on in the same
direction they have since the calling of the first National
Woman's Convention, another centennial will see woman in the
halls of legislation throughout the land, and so far as we are
concerned we have no objection, so long as she behaves
herself.--[St. Louis _Dispatch_, July 13.

It is a curious anomaly that the movement for national woman
suffrage in our country is most obstructed by women, and that
even where the men have doubts, their natural admiration for the
gentler sex almost converts them into champions. Certain it is
that the Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States
that the National Woman Suffrage Association presented to the
vice-president, Mr. Ferry, while he was surrounded by foreign
princes and potentates and by the governors of most of the States
of the union, faced at the same time by a countless mass of
American and foreign visitors--certain it is, we repeat, that
when this altogether unique paper was presented by Miss Susan B.
Anthony and her sisters, it became a record in the minds and
memory of all who witnessed the strange proceeding. And it is a
very well written statement, and no doubt one hundred years hence
it will be read with an interest not