full. I never heard better speaking in
my life, not a disturbance in the audience, not a jar on the
platform, all loving, tender, earnest. Olympia Brown is
wonderful; she talked Christ and His Gospel just I should
have done with her voice and practice; can't enlarge, but
she surely is a remarkable woman. We are to have a hearing
by a committee from both Houses on Saturday, and Senator
Pomeroy will present a bill for suffrage in the District of
Columbia next week, and would not be much surprised if it
were carried at once--does not really expect that--but
Senator Trumbull, Chairman of Judiciary, says he shall vote
for it, and so do many others in both Houses. Mrs. Pomeroy
received yesterday afternoon, and to my surprise, nearly all
her callers had been at the Convention--at least three
hundred young ladies were in the hall, they said, and all
spoke with perfect respect of the movement--many seemed in
sympathy with it.

_Jan. 21, two o'clock._--Just from the Committee Room, and
too full to write. Mrs. Stanton standing at the head of the
long table (Committee all round the table, Sumner so
attentive as to fix my eyes upon him with intense interest,
watching changes of expression) read a magnificent argument.
Mrs. Davis and Miss Anthony followed, and then sitting in my
chair, I made a five minutes' talk on my favorite
point--personal responsibility God's only method in human
affairs. Then questions from various gentlemen and
conversation all round the room for two hours. The large
room was full of gentlemen and ladies, and there were
congratulations without stint, but Sumner, grandest of all,
approaching Mrs. Stanton and myself, said in a deep voice,
really full of emotion, "I have been in this place, ladies,
for twenty years; I have followed or led in every movement
toward liberty and enfranchisement; but I have it to say to
you now, that I never attended such a committee meeting as
this in my life, it exceeds all that I have ever witnessed."

Mrs. Howland was there, and excited to her highest eloquence
in speech; with flushed cheeks she said to me, "If only that