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to, and clog the wheels of progress in the di-
rection in which we are laboring.

My dear sir, it seems to me that neither the
"subtle calm" of WM. H. SEWARD, nor the
"humane sweetness" of GERRIT SMITH, nor the
"pardon of a self-convicted kidnapper by our
new Republican Governor," has any connec-
tion with the fact of our "petitions for twenty
or thirty years" to the Legislature, for Equal
Suffrage. There is no necessity for these al-
lusions in the connection in which you make
them; they can do no good, but are prolific
of harm, and of harm only. They develop
neither the wisdom of the serpent, nor the
harmlessness of the dove. The whole scope of
the second and third paragarphs of the ar-
ticle under criticism, is calculated to re-
pel rather than attract those to whom we are
now appealing, like drowning, men, for help,
HELP! No one sees more clearly than I do,
the short comings of our "Republican leaders."
With what humble ability I may possess, I
have attempted with my pen and tongue, to
demonstrate the criminality of their position,
and the necessity of entrenching themselves
behind such a fortification as will render them
invulnerable to assaults from any quarter. But
knowing, as I have an opportunity to know
that those leaders of the party who have the
Equal Suffrage movement committed to their
legislative management and control, are right
on the subject; and believing that they will
in due time, prove the sincerity of their profes-
sions by their votes, I respectively submit that
it is unwise in those who know nothing to the
contrary, to denounce indiscriminately the
leaders of the Republican party, thus throwing
a stumbling block in the way of those of us
who are still clinging to that party (unfaithful
though it be) with the hope of thereby the
sooner accomplishing a certain object.

It is not necessary to enter into a dis-
cussion of the platform of the Republican
party. However "low" it may be in other re-
spects, it is certainly high enough and broad
enough for us to stand upon as citizens of the
State of New York, and plead, with trumpet
tongue, our equal right to the ballot-box. By