y have a triumphant
success.

Committees[128] were appointed. Mrs. Wright of Auburn, N. Y., stated
that her sister, Lucretia Mott, had charged her with a message to the
Convention, she sent her "God speed" to the movement, and regretted
that she could not be present.

Paulina W. Davis read an interesting history of the woman's rights
movement, giving a brief sketch of its leaders. Miss Anthony
introduced a series of resolutions,[129] which were laid on the table
for debate.

Mrs. M. GAGE, Secretary of the Suffrage Association of New York,
addressed the Convention. She thought the world had never yet
seen what woman could do, because she had never been given the
opportunity. The ballot is the symbol of a higher power than a
king's crown; it is the promise of justice to him who holds it.
John Bright said no oppression, however hoary headed, could stand
the voice of the people.

Mrs. SUSAN EDSON, of Washington, desired to have the Committee on
Resolutions urge upon Congress the passage of the bill now before
it, providing for the reorganization of the Treasury Department,
but opposing that section of the bill which fixes the salary of
the female employees lower than that of the men. She thought this
was a proper subject for the convention to discuss.

At the evening session Mrs. Josephine S. Griffing occupied the chair.

Hon. JAMES M. SCOVILL, of New Jersey, said:--I believe in
heroism. Grant won with the sword at Appomattox what Charles
Sumner contended for half a century--an idea. That idea is the
liberty of all, limited by the like liberty of each. To-night we
are here to bow to conscience, not to caste. Susan B. Anthony,
the heroine of the hour, sustained by such brave souls as crowd
this platform, who for the last twenty years have worked without
fear and without reproach, deserves the thanks of millions yet
to be, for she is the hero, the champion of the same idea for
which Abraham Lincoln and half a million soldiers died. The
emancipation of man was the proposition. The enfranchisement of
woman was not the corollary to that proposition, but the major
premise.

John Stuart Mill, in his great book, "The Subjection of Women,"
denies the superior mental capacity of man when compared with
woman. The nineteenth century don't yield a blind assent to such
bosh a