ld at
Lincoln Hall, was an unprecedented success. Its leading spirit
was Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, who, together with Josephine S.
Griffing, Paulina Wright Davis, and Susan B. Anthony, made all
the preliminary arrangements, and managed the meeting. Mrs.
Hooker's zeal, activity, and amiability gave her the power to
make an easy conquest wherever she carries the banner of the good
cause. Her generalship in Washington marshalled hosts of new and
ardent friends into the movement. Five sessions were held, during
each of which the Convention was presided over by some member of
the Senate or House of Representatives; and it was a novel
feature to see such men as Senators Nye, Warren, and Wilson
sitting successively in the president's chair, apparently half
unconscious that it was one of greater honor than their familiar
seats in the Senate. Speeches were made by Adelle Hazlett,
Olympia Brown, Lilie Peckham, Isabella B. Hooker, Lillie Devereux
Blake, Cora Hatch Tappan, Susan B. Anthony, Kate Stanton,
Victoria C. Woodhull, Hon. A. G. Riddle (of the Washington bar),
Frederick Douglass, Senators Nye and Wilson, and Mara E. Post,
who made a journey all the way from Wyoming to attend the
Convention. A good deal was said by the speakers concerning the
proposed interpretation of the existing constitutional
amendments. It was thus a convention with a new idea. The
reporters could not say that only the old, stock arguments were
used. There was an air of novelty about the proceedings,
indicating healthy life in the movement. The consequence was that
the cause of woman's enfranchisement made a new, sudden, and
profound impression at Washington.

This Convention was remarkable for the absence of the usual long
series of resolutions covering every point of our demands.

Another peculiarity was the unusual amount of money that flowed into
the treasury, as the following letter, among many others of the same
character, shows:

MISS ANTHONY--I have this morning deposited $500 for the use
of the N. W. S. A., and I will give a check for the amount
as you desire it.

Washington, D. C. Mrs. M. M. CARTTER.

Letters were read from Mrs. Esther Morris,[139] Justice of the Peace
in Wyoming Territory, and from Mrs. Jane Graham Jones, of Chicago.
Sen