in Washington.

Mrs. LIVERMORE, referring to Mr. Gladden's remarks, said there
was nothing so painful to her as the lack of faith in
republicanism among cultivated American gentlemen. Political
atheism seemed to be rife among them. What wonder that political
corruption exists to such an extent, when the clergymen, the
doctors, professors of colleges, members of churches, the
educated and cultivated, refuse to exercise the rights of
citizenship by going to the polls to vote--when intelligence and
morality are to so great a degree eliminated from public affairs?
At a late Presidential election in Massachusetts it was
ascertained that but 54 per cent. of the legal voters actually
went to the polls. Among the 46 per cent. who staid away were the
clergymen, the physicians, and the professional men. There was a
fearful political apathy among the educated classes in reference
to the discharge of their political duties. If educated and good
men, as a body, would interest themselves in the primary meetings
and the caucuses, politics would be improved, even before women
got the suffrage.

It was proposed that the Convention should adjourn by singing the
doxology, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." The great
audience rose and joined as with one voice in singing the grand
centuries-old doxology, and then adjourned, many urging that the
Convention should hold over another day.

In the autumn of 1871 the American Woman Suffrage Association
held conventions at Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, and
Pittsburgh. The annual meeting in Philadelphia was held in
National Hall, and presided over by Mrs. Tracy Cutler, who made
the opening address. The number of the delegates to this
Convention was sixty-two, representing fourteen States.

Mrs. LUCY STONE, Chairman of the Executive Committee, read her
report, in which, among other things, she said--Petitions from
each of our auxiliary State societies, asking for the ballot,
were sent to their respective State Legislatures, and a hearing
granted whenever it was asked. This is a great gain upon some
previous years, when, as once in Rhode Island, our petitions were
referred to "a committee on burial grounds."

The following letter was read from WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON: