DOUGLASS, to which he responded, claiming woman's right to
freedom and equality on the same grounds he based his own.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON maintained woman's right to sit in
Congress and the legislatures--that there should be the same
number of women as men in all the national councils. He said
respect for his sainted mother, love for his noble wife, and for
the only daughter of his house and heart (my own Fanny), compel
me to defend the rights of all women. Those who have inaugurated
this movement are worthy to be ranked with the army of martyrs
and confessors in the days of old. Blessings on them! They should
triumph, and every opposition be removed, that peace and love,
justice and liberty, might prevail throughout the world.

A Mr. TYLER remarked that a fear had been expressed that in
coming to the polls, woman would be compelled to meet men who
drink and smoke. Do women encounter no such evils in their homes?
Whisky and tobacco are much greater obstacles at the marriage
altar than at the polls--in the relation of wife than in that of
citizen.

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, then in the height of his reputation (as
Howadji), spoke at length in favor of suffrage for woman, but amid
constant interruptions. With a short speech from Mrs. Rose, the
Convention adjourned amid great confusion.

NINTH NATIONAL CONVENTION.

In accordance with a call issued by the Central Committee, the Ninth
National Woman's Rights Convention was held in the City of New York on
Thursday, May 12, 1859.

The sessions commenced with a business meeting, on the afternoon of
that day, in Mozart Hall. The meeting was called to order by SUSAN B.
ANTHONY, of Rochester, New York, who made a few introductory remarks,
after which, the question of the expediency of memorializing the
Legislatures of the different States, on the subject of granting equal
rights to Woman, was discussed at some length. At the close of the
debate, a resolution was adopted, that it was expedient so to
memorialize the several Legislatures, and a committee[157] was
appointed for that purpose, and a series of resolutions[158] offered
by Caroline H. Dall.

These resolutions were discussed by Mrs. Dall, Mrs. Hallock, Mrs.
Elizabeth Neal Gay, Lucretia Mott, A. M. Powell, Charles C. Burleigh,
and others.

EVENING SESSION.

At an early hour, Mozart Hall was crowded to overflowing, eve