ncere in anything--warmly advocated
Mrs. Stanton's election. "A lady of fine presence and
accomplishments in the House of Representatives," it said (and
said truly), "would wield a wholesome influence over the rough
and disorderly elements of that body." The _Anti-Slavery
Standard_, with genuine commendation, said: "The electors of the
Eighth District would honor themselves and do well by the country
in giving her a triumphant election." The other candidates in the
same district were Mr. James Brooks, Democrat, and Mr. Le Grand
B. Cannon, Republican. The result of the election was as follows:
Mr. Brooks received 13,816 votes, Mr. Cannon 8,210, and Mrs.
Stanton 24. It will be seen that the number of sensible people in
the district was limited! The excellent lady, in looking back
upon her successful defeat, regrets only that she did not, before
it became too late, procure the photographs of her two dozen
unknown friends.[68]

The years of 1866 and '67 were marked by unusual activity among the
friends of this movement in both England and America. John Stuart
Mill, a member of Parliament, proposed an amendment to the "Household
Suffrage Bill," by striking out the word "man," sustained by many able
speeches, which finally carried the measure triumphantly there. New
York held a Constitutional Convention, Michigan a Commission, and
Kansas submitted the proposition of woman suffrage to a vote of her
people. Twenty thousand petitions were rolled up and presented in the
Constitutional Convention, asking that the word "male" be stricken
from Article II, sec. 1, and as many more were poured into Congress
and the Legislatures of several of the States. A series of
conventions, commencing in Albany, were held in all the chief cities
of New York.[69]

THE AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION.

The labors of this year are well rounded out with a grand National
Convention,[70] during Anniversary week, in New York, which assembled
at the Church of the Puritans, May 9th, 1867, at 10 o'clock A.M.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton called the meeting to order and said: "In the
absence of our venerable President (Lucretia Mott), Robert Purvis, one
of the Vice-Presidents, will take the chair."

Mr. PURVIS said: I regret the absence of Mrs. Mott. It is
needless to say that no one has higher claims upon the nation's
gratitude for what has been accomplished in the g