very Bugle. Miss Anthony read her paper for her, as she was over
eighty years old, and added her own strong comments, of which the report
of the secretary said: "Her burning words can never be forgotten, and
many a soul must have responded to her call for workers to carry to
glorious completion what was begun in such difficulty."

There was some talk at this time of holding a Southern Woman's Council
and Miss Anthony wrote to the Arkansas Woman's Chronicle:

The New England States hold an annual suffrage convention and have
done so for nearly thirty years, and I do not see any valid reason
why the States of any section may not have a society or a
convention. Larger numbers from the six New England States can
meet and help each other in Boston, than could possibly go to
Washington to get the soul-refreshing which comes through the
gathering together of kindred spirits from the entire nation.

As I shall be glad to see the women of the South, of all possible
aims and ends, meet in council, so I should rejoice to see them
hold a southern States' suffrage convention. I say this because I
want you to know that my heartiest sympathy goes with you in your
effort to call together the women of your section of the Union; and
I shall rejoice to see the women of the far-off northwestern States
doing the same thing. Women should have their local societies and
meetings, their county, State and section conventions, and then,
for our great national gathering, each State should send its
representatives to Washington, there to confer together and go
before the committees of Congress to urge our claims. What a power
women would be if all could but see eye to eye in their struggle
for freedom!

She remained at home long enough to prepare the memorials to the
national political conventions, and June 4 found her at Minneapolis
ready for the Republican gathering. She was entertained by Mr. and Mrs.
T. B. Walker, and found Mrs. J. Ellen Foster also a guest in that
hospitable home. The memorial presented by the National-American W. S.
A. contained the same unanswerable arguments for the enfranchisement of
women which had been made for so many years, and asked for the following
plank: "As a voice in the laws and the rulers under which we live is the
inalienable right of every citizen of a republic, we pledge ourselves,
when again in power, to p