est qualities, give her the ballot.

Mrs. MARY E. HAGGART, of Indiana, followed with a bold and
brilliant argument, presenting the claims of her sex to the
ballot.

Mrs. MARY A. LIVERMORE asked how it was that women to-day are
exposed to a hotter fire than ever before. Women are not as much
toasted at banquets or flattered with extravagant compliments as
a few years ago. She warned her hearers that if woman continued
to make of herself a peg to hang millinery goods on, she would be
riddled with the shafts of ridicule. If she entered the sphere of
man, and sought, by the cultivation of her intellect, to elevate
both herself and man, she would equally expose herself to satire.
The times were different now from the past. The question of woman
suffrage in one form or another was constantly coming up
everywhere.

Officers[207] were elected for the ensuing year.

Mrs. LIVERMORE said, as this was a political meeting of men and
women, she hoped it would be closed after the usual fashion, by
singing the doxology. The whole audience rose and sang it, and
the Convention adjourned.

A memorial, signed by the officers of the American Woman Suffrage
Association, asking Congress to establish suffrage for women in
the Territories, was presented to the Senate by Hon. George F.
Hoar, and referred to the Committee on Territories, which was to
give a hearing to a committee from the Suffrage Association. But
no quorum of the Senate Committee came together, and the
opportunity was lost.

On Friday afternoon Mrs. Hayes received the members of the
Suffrage Association with a cordiality and grace most becoming
to her, and most delightful to us; our hearty sympathy with her
good stand for temperance opened the way for conversation, and a
very pleasant two hours were spent at the White House. Mrs. Hayes
took us through the large conservatories, which, she said, had
few flowers, as she "had most of them cut off for the Children's
Hospital Fair." But there were a great many rare and beautiful
flowers remaining. She cut and distributed some among us, and
showed us the private family rooms, the new china ordered for the
White House, and the writing desk made from the wreck of the ship
that went in search of Sir John Franklin, which was presented by
Qu