erous treatment of a
new and unpopular movement by the press of Maryland because
we have felt it our duty to condemn the striking contrast
exhibited in other quarters. In Baltimore competent
reporters made a conscientious abstract of the speeches they
professed to report. When this is done in New York and
Washington, the woman suffrage cause will have less
difficulty in enlisting public attention.

We were also exceedingly gratified to find that the laws of
Maryland for wives, mothers, and widows, though still far
from equitable, are greatly in advance of those of
Massachusetts and of most Northern States. We are promised
by one of the most eminent lawyers of Baltimore a full
statement of the legal status of married women in Maryland.
We shall publish it in the _Woman's Journal_, as an evidence
that equity and liberality are not bounded by "Mason and
Dixon" or any other geographical line.

H. B. B.

A mass convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association at
Apollo Hall, New York, on the 9th of May, 1872, was an
interesting and successful meeting. Mrs. LUCY STONE presided, and
made the opening address. Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Charlotte B.
Wilbour, Mary F. Eastman, Rev. Edward Eggleston, Helen M.
Jenkins, Henry B. Blackwell, Amanda Deyo, and others addressed
the Convention.

Some disappointment was felt at the unavoidable absence of Mr.
Garrison, Mrs. Bowles, and Mrs. Livermore, the two former being
detained by severe indisposition. In consequence of an error of
dates on the part of the proprietors of Steinway Hall, the
meeting was held at an unusual place; nevertheless, the number of
persons in attendance at the three sessions averaged seven
hundred, and was composed, for the most part, of substantial,
reliable friends of the movement. The notices of the Press were
brief, but respectful. The Convention declined to take any
separate political action, arraigned the so-called "Liberal
Republicans" for their illiberal exclusion of women, and appealed
to the approaching National Conventions at Philadelphia and
Baltimore for a recognition of the rightful claims of woman to
legal and political