MR. PENTECOST rose to answer questions and make explanations. He said he meant the kind of men who accept the past because it is the past. The gentleman who introduced political economy (Mr. Blackwell) was wrong from beginning to end, as he could prove had he time to do so. A man should take all the land he can use, be it a small quantity or thousands of acres, but let alone what he or his employés cannot use. If he have the brains, capital, and ability to use a million acres let him take that amount; not one-third of the land in the country is now in use. I did not say anything about repudiating the national debt, but meant rather that the debt should not have been incurred. During the war, money should have been used as men; but if people are such idiots as to go on paying interest on the debt, let them do so and suffer for it. I don't believe that one generation has the right to make a contract for another to fulfil. What is a government? Can you find one? Does it exist? The government means a clump of politicians. I have nothing to propose, and no hobby; but these things I believe to be true: to me, to own a piece of vacant land is wrong, and to take money which I have not earned by some work, from another, and put it into my pocket, is wrong.

JOHN JACKSON, of Hockessin, said that he had employed a great deal of labor, and his men always made more than he did, and he had never had one to strike. All who speak so may be called croakers; but the poor dead people have done us much good, and should not be forgotten. The work of improvement has got to be a gradual one of education, and the getting of all the information we can. There is no cause in this country for so much labor striking, and there are as many good, honorable, and benevolent capitalists in the country as there are laborers of the same class. The strikers and dynamite must be stopped, and the people taught to vote right, in order to avoid the trouble that will come to this country from such a turmoil of wrong.

This closed the discussion, and the afternoon session adjourned at 4.30 o'clock.

SEVENTH DAY.-Morning Session.

The second day's session of Longwood Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends opened at ten o'clock on Seventh day morning. The great beauty of the day as well as the eminent speakers who were to address the meeting combined to bring out a large audience, which filled the meeting-house before the hour of opening, and did not lessen in size as the day went on. The meeting was presided over by FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY. "O Life that maketh All Things New" was sung, after which the Chairman read a letter to the meeting from GILES B. STEBBINS, of Detroit, Michigan. The Committee on Memorials next reported by HENRY KENT.

After the reading of the Memorials, MR. HINCKLEY said: I cannot allow this moment to pass without breaking the reverent silence which broods over our spirits long enough to say just a tender word concerning the two sainted onessainted always, doubly sainted now-whom we all called Aunts.

When I first came into this community, a stranger, it was to be welcomed into Aunt Dinah's home. When I went forth from this place the last time but one, after a summer's ministry, it was with the benediction of her kiss upon my lips. I shall never forget, nor will you, her familiar form in these seats, or the music of her sweet greeting, "How's thee do?" One could never meet her without feeling, as Emerson would express it, that she was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact. Even the severe simplicity of her dress was beautiful as a symbol of that integrity of character which never sold the truth, or so much as qualified the truth to serve the hour. Her yea was yea and her nay, nay. Rescuer of the slave, champion of temperance and clean living, friend of equal rights in all its applications, her life is an immortal example; an immortal inspiration.

And that other Aunt who belonged to us all, what shall I say of her, of Aunt Rebecca?

One of nature's noblewomen, called to pass through much of sorrow and suffering, she was always as cheerful and bright as an ideal June day. The last time I met her she sat in her chair, on wheels, reading. Sickness had disabled her, pain had done its work, but there was about her a spirit of undying youth which knew no surrender.

"How I do pity," she said, "those young people who are always sick!" The world was bright to her, though she had known the grief of many partings. There was good health in her mind and heart and soul, notwithstanding all her physical ailments. From out her personal troubles she looked to the progress of truth, goodness, and love in the world, and

was content.

Aunt Dinah and Aunt Rebecca! They have passed from the land of sense into the unseen world. We look in vain for their revered faces, but somehow the influence of their characters lingers in this atmosphere; we feel ourselves now with them and they with us. The sublime and blessed privilege of their companionship has been and is ours. They have long been Aunt Dinah and Aunt Rebecca to us; reverently let us say it, they are Aunt Dinah and Aunt Rebecca to us still.

The Memorials were now adopted in silence, after which Longfellow's hymn, "When the Hours of Day are numbered," was sung by the meeting.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

ELIZABETH U. YATES, of Maine, then spoke as follows on Woman's Sphere:

In the midst of this age of exploration and investigation, when men are pressing to the heart of Africa and the north pole with microscope in hand, with the origin of species and new theology to engage their attention, we still find that the "woman question" is claiming more thought than any other subject of the age. What she ought to be, what she ought to do, are the greatest considerations of the hour.

The condition of women in this country is more enviable and advantageous than it has ever been in the past. The menial toil and degradation which are her lot in Europe and the Orient are unknown in this favored land.

But even here, amidst the enlightenment of our wonderful civilization, we find her sphere limited by ancient customs and inherited prejudices. Civil equality is denied her; in the affairs of state she has no authority.

Blackstone tells us that the elements of sovereignty are goodness, wisdom, and power. There are none to deny that woman has the qualification of goodness. Every one admits that women hold the balance of moral power. We review the records of crime and find that the percentage of men who transgress moral and civil law far outnumber the women.

In our prisons and jails we see thousands of men and scores of women. In our churches we find that two-thirds of the members are women.

Those who are engaged in the liquor traffic recognize and appreciate the moral power of women, and are bitterly opposed to her enfranchisement, apprehending disaster to their business when she has political authority.

Women are not wanting in the element of goodness, and the government is in need of just that quality in its administrations.

The second element of sovereignty, according to the code of Blackstone, is wisdom, and women are chargeable with folly; and certainly they sometimes do very foolish things. And yet they have never projected a Panama Canal, or an expedition to the north pole; and thrice in crucial hours of our history has the wisdom of woman guided the affairs of the nation to successful issue. When five crowned heads of Europe declined to listen to the dream and scheme of Columbus, it was a woman who aided the great discoverer, and gave her jewels to discover a new world.

During the revolutionary war, at the close of 1776, after the proud Declaration of Independence had been signed, a

great spirit of depression and discouragement came over the colonists. The army was impoverished, the soldiers disheartened, and the leading men of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, assembled at the house of Mr. Arnelt, one of the leading citizens, to discuss the situation. They decided that it would be best to accept the amnesty offered by General Howe, and submit to English rule. Mrs. Hannah Arnelt, in an adjoining room, overheard their conversation, and unbidden she left her spinning-wheel and entered their council. Her patriotic soul was fired within her; she besought them to stand by the Declaration of Independence, and not stoop to kiss the foot that had trampled upon them. They were inspired by her courage and heroism, and there signed a solemn compact to stand by the fortune of the colonies; and in that hour of national need the wisdom of a woman turned the scale for human welfare. In the darkest hour of our civil war, when the generals in the field were making futile attempts to break up the solid South by way of the Mississippi, Anna Ella Carroll planned the Tennessee campaign, which was accepted by the President and Secretary of War, and acted upon by the army commanders. That woman's campaign showed military genius equal to that of Napoleon, and made the victories of General Grant possible; and yet her services are unrecognized by the government, and she is spending her old age in want. Though her claims are admitted by Congress, no pension has been granted her. Surely a review of history gives abundant evidence that women are not lacking in the wisdom of sovereignty.

The third element given is power. That women are physically the "weaker sex" must be admitted. There are very strong women and very weak men, but the majority of men are certainly stronger than the majority of women. And yet, is the power that makes sovereignty the might of muscle? If that be so, let us at our next election have for President John L. Sullivan, for Vice-President James Kilrain. But no; the power of our government is not brute force, but the power