led with spectators. Soon after 11 o'clock the
President, accompanied by a large number of speakers[155] and friends,
came on the stage. Many interesting letters were received[156] and a
series of resolutions[157] reported.

Mrs. Gage occupied the evening with an address on Judge and Jury. The
following brief sketch of the convention by Frances Ellen Burr is as
good a summary of the proceedings as we find.

(Correspondence Hartford _Times_,) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 1874.

The National Woman Suffrage Convention opened in Lincoln Hall
this morning with a full house.

Miss Anthony opened the meeting by reading the call, and then
briefly stated its purposes, which were to bring influences to
bear upon Congress that will secure National protection for women
in their right to vote. Black men are the only ones guaranteed by
the National Constitution in their right to vote. Women ask for
the same security. A letter from the Hon. E. G. Lapham, of New
York, puts a point in the closing paragraph to the effect that
the most degraded elector, who would sell his vote for a dollar,
or for a dram, couldn't be induced by the offer of a kingdom to
sell his right to vote.

Miss Anthony stated that the two articles of the woman suffrage
creed were: First, That every woman should get her vote into the
ballot box whenever she could get a judge of election to take it;
and wherever refused, should go just the same again next time.
Second, That all women owning property should refuse to pay
taxes. She read a memorial to Congress for "no taxation without
representation," the closing paragraph running as follows:

_Therefore_, We pray your honorable bodies to pass a law
during the present session of Congress, that shall exempt
women from taxation for national purposes so long as they
are unrepresented in national councils.

Mrs. Spencer has a case now pending in the Supreme Court of the
United States. She carried a suit for herself and seventy-two
other women who applied to be made voters and were refused. She
has prepared a petition for woman suffrage for the women of the
District of Columbia, on the ground, as Miss Anthony stated it,
that as "this little ten-mile square belongs to us all, if the
women here are enfranchised, those of the rest of the nation can