F. STEBBINS.

ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 27, 1876.

MY DEAR SUSAN ANTHONY: I thank thee most deeply for the assurance
of a welcome to your deliberative councils in our country's
centennial year, to reannounce our oft-repeated protest against
bondage to tyrant law. Most holy cause! Woman's equality, why so
long denied?... I was ready at the first tap of the drum that
sounded from that hub of our country, Seneca Falls, in 1848,
calling for an assembly of men and women to set forth and
remonstrate against the legal usurpation of our rights.... I
cannot think of anything that would give me as much pleasure as
to be able to meet with you at this time. I am exceedingly glad
that you appreciate the blessings of frequent visits and wise
counsel from our beloved and venerated pioneer, Lucretia Mott. I
hope her health and strength will enable her to see and enjoy the
triumphant victory of this work, and I wish you all the blessings
of happiness that belong to all good workers, and my love to them
all as if named.

AMY POST.

POMO, Mendocino Co., California, June 26, 1876.

July 4, 1776, our revolutionary fathers--in convention
assembled--declared their independence of the mother country;
solemnly asserted the divine right of self-government and its
relation to constituted authority. With liberty their shibboleth,
the colonies triumphed in their long and fierce struggle with the
mother country, and established an independent government. They
adopted a "bill of rights" embodying their ideal of a free
government.

With singular inconsistency almost their first act, while it
secured to one-half the people of the body politic the right to
tax and govern themselves, subjected the other half to the very
oppression which had culminated in the rebellion of the colonies,
"taxation without representation," and the inflictions of an
authority to which they had not given their consent. The
constitutional provision which enfranchised the male population
of the new State and secured to it self-governing rights,
disfranchised its women, and eventuated in a tyrannical use of
power, which, exercised by husbands, fathers, and brothers, is
infinitely more intolerabl