telligent hearers
before retiring, audibly confessed that they came to find fault,
but had seen nothing to censure. So some who came to scoff
remained to applaud. With such advocates there can be no
retrogression of Woman's Rights. Equality is their motto, and
onward their destiny.
WM. HAY.

This Convention was so successful in point of numbers and receipts,
and the sale of woman suffrage literature, that it was decided to
repeat the experiment the next year; accordingly the following call
was issued early in the season:

SARATOGA CONVENTION, 1855.

A Convention will be held at Saratoga Springs on the 15th and
16th of August next, to discuss woman's right to suffrage.

In the progress of human events, woman now demands the
recognition of her civil existence, her legal rights, her social
equality with man.

How her claims can be the most easily and speedily established on
a firm, enduring basis, will be the subject of deliberation at
the coming Convention.

The friends of the movement, and the public generally, are most
respectfully invited to attend.

Many of the advocates of the cause are expected to be in
attendance.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, LYDIA MOTT,
ERNESTINE L. ROSE, ANTOINETTE L. BROWN,
SAMUEL J. MAY, SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

This Convention also was held in St. Nicholas Hall, and a large
audience greeted the speakers of the occasion as they appeared upon
the platform.

A brief report of the secretaries in _The Una_ of September, 1855,
says: A large audience assembled on the morning of August 15th at St.
Nicholas Hall. Susan B. Anthony called the meeting to order, and
presented a list of officers[134] nominated at a preliminary
gathering, which was accepted. Martha C. Wright, on taking the chair,
made a brief statement of the object of the Convention, and invited
all those who were opposed to our demands to come to the platform and
state their objections.

During the absence of the Business Committee, Ernestine L. Rose
briefly reviewed the rise and progress of the woman's rights movement.
Antoinette Brown reported a series of resolutions, on which she
commented at some length, when the Rev. Samuel J. May was introduced.
Although he spoke to the entire edification of the pl