d.

This year marks the decennial of the movement in the United
Kingdom. In the current number of our journal, there is a sketch
of the political history of the movement here, which I commend to
the attention of your convention, and which I need not repeat.
The record will be seen to be one of great and rapid advance in
the political rights of women, but there has been an equally
marked change in other directions; women's interests in
education, and women's questions generally, are treated now with
much more respectful consideration than they were ten years ago.
We are gratified in believing that much of this consideration is
due to the attention roused by our energetic and persistent
demand for the suffrage, and in believing that infinitely greater
benefits of the same kind will accrue when women shall be in
possession of the franchise. Beyond the material gains in
legislation, we find a general improvement in the tone of feeling
and thought toward women--an approach, indeed, to the sentiment
recently expressed by Victor Hugo, that as man was the problem of
the eighteenth century, woman is the problem of the nineteenth
century. May our efforts to solve this problem lead to a happy
issue.

Yours truly,
LYDIA E. BECKER.

BOSTON, Mass., January 10, 1877.

DEAR MRS. STANTON: It is with some little pain, I confess, that I
accept your very courteous invitation to write a letter for your
Washington convention on the 19th instant; for what I must say,
if I say anything at all, is what I know will be very
unacceptable--I fear very displeasing--to the majority of those
to whom you will read it. If you conclude that my letter will
obstruct, and not facilitate the advancement of the cause you
have so faithfully labored for these many years, you have my most
cheerful consent to deliver it over to that general asylum of
profitless productions--the waste-basket.

Running this risk, however, I have this brief message to send to
those who now meet on behalf of woman's full recognition as
politically the equal of man, namely: that every woman suffragist
who upholds Christianity, tears down with one hand what she seeks
to build up with the other