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To Miss Susan B. Anthony
Pres't of the National Women Suffrage Convention
held at Washington D.C. January 15th 1874.

The [radical?/judicial?], men and women possessed of the earnest desire to bring a organization of our republican institution according to radically [deveated?] principles, men and women [illegible] whom are to be found many tried and true republicans that have given a life-time to the contest for liberty in Europe and against slavery in our own country, deem it their pleasant duty to assure your [condition?] of the most cordial sympathy and willing cooperation in the grand uniformatory work you have undertaken.

Not many years ago the demand for equality of the rights of all citizens, male and female, was generally treated with [illegible word] and held to be a Utopian [faulty?], not by the ignorant masses alone, but by those as well who represented the male one half of the people, the law-givers, and those who make public opinion, the operators and editors not even the justice of that demand in principle was then conceded by one in a thousand of our people, and there was scarcely one in a hundred thousand but what apprehended the most serious political social and moral calamities in case the demand should ever be granted. Behold the change!