add one to his sermon. That from Garrison is saying a great deal.

The Hon. Wm. Hay, who always aided us and watched the Legislature very
closely in its action upon our question, in a letter to Miss Anthony,
dated March 20, 1856, said:

I write this in the Assembly Chamber which has so recently been
disgraced by an old fogy--Sam. A. Foote. He can not, however,
prevent the agitation as to Woman's Rights. That of Suffrage has
been discussed several times this week, incidentally, in both
Houses, and will be up here again to-morrow directly....

March 21st, he says: The petition from Milton, Ulster County, was
presented yesterday, and referred to the Committee on Claims,
instead of the Judiciary or a Select Committee. It is thus
manifest that the cause is not to be put down or even passed by
with contemptuous silence, vulgar abuse, or conservative scorn.
Foote squealed out his angry opposition, in the old stupid slang
(of Shakespeare perverted from "Macbeth"), about unsexing woman
with the right of suffrage, and endeavored to contrast it with
property-claims; as if the revolutionary maxim concerning
taxation and representation going together is not a property
rule. I suspect, too, that personal rights, secured by the right
preservative of all rights, are more important than mere property
rights. But they need not be distinguished in that respect. The
proceeding is (even if without any present beneficial result) a
triumph; because it proves to Judge Foote and others that the
Woman's Rights petitions (or rather demands) must receive
suitable consideration and, at least, a respectful report.

Next winter we may hope to be more successful--if not then,
success is merely postponed. It has become a question of time
only, and perhaps of place--probably Nebraska!

THE SEVENTH NATIONAL WOMAN'S EIGHTS CONTENTION.

Pursuant to a call issued by the Central Committee, the Seventh
National Woman's Rights Convention was held in New York, at the
Broadway Tabernacle, November 25 and 26, 1856.

The Convention was called to order by Martha C. Wright, President of
the last Convention.

The officers were duly appointed.[145]

LUCY STONE, on taking the chair, said: I am sure that all present
will agree with me that this is a day of congratulation. It is
our Seventh Annual National Woman's Rights