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To the Ladies of the
National W.S. Ass. for the
May Convention 1870.

Dear friends,
Although absent I am with you in spirit [some edited words in original]
on the great days of our anniversary
united with you in the same youthful inspiration and
fervency [?] for our great cause
as I was 20 years ago.
Today I stand not alone as the representative
of our old true Germany, for the hearts of
thousands of my country women of the
great Northwest, express through me today
their confidence in the success of the enfranchise
ment of women and their thanks to You,[underlined] brave workers
in the cause. We all look forward with
hope and thankfulness to the day which
is already near and which we know will deliver
us from all social evils and bring joy and
salvation to all mankind, for the rescue
of women is the last deliverance of [heaven?]
ly. And if ignorance and stupidity [word illegible]
Liberty will be endangered by the [emancipation?] of women
and lead us deeper in the darkness of [word unclear], we