What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

I am a mystery to myself.

My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on!go on! Never falter, never abandon the principles which you have adopted.

The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.