of this Convention.

We therefore solemnly urge those men and women who desire the
elevation of humanity, to be present at the coming Convention, and aid
us by their wisdom. Our platform will be free to all who are capable
of discussing the subject with candor and truth. On behalf of the
Central Committee,

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,
PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS,
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING,
LUCY STONE,
SAMUEL J. MAY.

[105] _President._--Lucretia Mott, Philadelphia.

_Vice-Presidents._--Paulina Wright Davis, Rhode Island; Caroline M.
Severance, Ohio; Elizabeth Oakes Smith, New York; Clarina I. H.
Nichols, Vermont; Gerrit Smith, Peterboro; Sarah L. Miller,
Pennsylvania.

_Secretaries._--Susan B. Anthony, Martha C. Wright, Samuel J. May,
Lydia F. Fowler.

_Business Committee._--Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Lucy Stone, Caroline M.
Severance, Harriot K. Hunt, Jane Elizabeth Jones, James Mott,
Ernestine L. Rose, Elizabeth W. Phillips, Pliny Sexton, Benjamin S.
Jones.

_Committee on Finance._--Rosa Smith, Joseph Savage, Caroline M.
Severance.

Many earnest friends beside the officers were present and took part in
the discussions; among them Amy Post, Mary and Sarah Hallowell,
Catharine A. F. Stebbins, Thomas and Mary Ann McClintock, Elizabeth
Smith Miller, Rev. Lydia Ann Jenkins, Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, Lydia
Mott, Phebe H. Jones, Mary A. Springstead, Abby H. Price, Rev. Abraham
Pryne, Eliza A. Aldrich, editor _Genius of Liberty_; Dr. Cutcheon, of
McGrawville College; Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lydia P. Savage, Sarah
Hallock, Griffith M. Cooper.

[106] See Appendix.

[107] See Pennsylvania Chapter, page 360.

[108] _The Syracuse Journal_ said: "Miss Anthony has a capital voice
and deserves to be made clerk of the Assembly."

[109] When Gerrit Smith was in Congress, elected on account of his
anti-slavery principles, his power to make friends even among foes was
fully illustrated. At his elegant dinners distinguished Southerners
were frequent guests. Hence it was said of him that he dined with
slaveholders, and would have wined with them but for his temperance
principles.

[110] See Appendix.

[111] See Appendix.

[112] This noble man was among the first to append his name to the
declaration of rights issued