ce was
large, and the interest in the Convention seemed to be
increasing. The forenoon was devoted to a consideration of the
basis of the National organization, its constitution and by-laws.
The discussions[185] were earnest, temperate, in excellent
spirit, every woman keeping within the five minutes' rule, and
speaking to the point--a circumstance commented on pleasantly by
the President. The articles of the Constitution and By-Laws were
discussed _seriatim_, and adopted, and then the Constitution, as
a whole, was adopted. A letter was presented by Mrs. Lucy Stone,
from the proprietor of the Birch House, Water Street, offering to
entertain a few delegates--free. She also read the following:

CLEVELAND, _November 25, 1869_.

_To the Delegates of the Woman's National Convention_:--The
Faculty of the Homeopathic College hereby extend their most
cordial invitation to your honorable body to visit the
College. Conveyances for the same will be in readiness at
any time desired. In this College, now in its twentieth
annual session, woman, with the exception of one winter, has
always been equal with man in privilege and honor, and here
she shall always share an equal privilege and honor, so long
as she is willing to conform to the same standard of
culture.

Yours, most respectfully,
T. P. WILSON, _Dean_.
H. V. BIGGAR, _Registrar_.

Judge BRADWELL offered the following, which was adopted:

_Resolved_, That we urgently request all State and National
Associations, formed for the purpose of aiding in giving
suffrage to woman, to become auxiliary to, or co-operate
with the American Woman's Suffrage Association, believing
that by concert of action on the part of all Societies and
Associations formed in the nation for this purpose, suffrage
will sooner be extended to woman.

Able addresses were made during the afternoon by Rev. Charles
Marshall, pastor of one of the Presbyterian churches of
Indianapolis; Lizzie Boynton and Mrs. Swank, of Indiana; Lucy
Stone, of New Jersey; Ex-Gov. Root, of Kansas; Mary E. Ames, of
California; a