s known to an honest woman."
I fear the means known to _the other sort_ would meet a readier
response. I forget which of the senators it was, last winter, who
said rudely to Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Griffing, "You just call us out
because you like to."... Mrs. Hooker will find it no easy matter to
hook them on to _her_ platform, but she will be wiser after trying.
She is mistaken in considering the cause so nearly won, but it
would be as impossible for her to realize the situation as it was
for Rev. Thomas Beecher to be convinced that Mr. Smith saw more
clearly than he. "Do you mean," said this potentate, "to bring down
the whole Beecher family on your head?" "No," was the reply, "do
you mean to bring the whole Smith family on to yours?"

The following circular letter was sent to Curtis, Phillips and other
prominent men:

A convention has been announced at Washington, for January 11 and
12, to push the Sixteenth Amendment. The management is solely in my
hands, and I alone assume the financial responsibility. I go to
Washington January 1 to spend some days enlisting members of
Congress in this purely political question, and securing short
speeches from them on our platform. I have neither State nor
national society behind me, but am attempting to carry on a
convention with this single aim--to awaken Congress and, through
it, the country, to the fact that a Sixteenth Amendment is needed,
in order to carry out the principles of the Declaration of
Independence; and that we women are tired of petitioning, and would
fain begin to vote without delay. Will you speak for _me_ in the
day or the evening, and much oblige your sincere friend, ISABELLA
B. HOOKER.

Evidently they would not speak, even "for me," and Mrs. Hooker sends
around this note of explanation to the "old guard:" "I know of no
gentlemen outside of members of Congress, that can help us at all, who
can come. Beecher, Collyer, Curtis and Phillips are all unable. If you
think of any one else it would be worth while to invite, please write
me at once. I have such a strong determination that members shall
understand how much we are in earnest at this time, and how we won't
wait any longer, that it does seem to me they will take up a burden of
speech themselves, and work also. Mr. Sewall, of Boston, writes me that
he will urge Mr. Sumner, as I requested, and other members, b