e not given you even one poor
speech. I thank the audience and the speakers, one and all. I
feel like thanking everybody, myself included, as chairman. In
Stewart's store in New York they told me 1,500 persons were
employed, all guided by one brain up-stairs, and that one brain
giving the store a national reputation. This convention has been
inspired and managed by one person--Mrs. Hooker of this city."
After speculating as to the possible oratorical power of Mrs. H.,
had she received the advantages and enjoyed the practice of her
brother, who spoke the previous evening, he said: "But of course
Mrs. Hooker couldn't vote, nor be a member of the legislature, or
even a justice of the peace. Insufferable nonsense! If such women
don't vote before I die--well, like Gough's obstinate deacon, I
won't die till they do."

On motion of Franklin Chamberlin, esq., the thanks of the
convention were tendered to Mrs. Hooker for her efforts. At her
request the chairman said that she was wholly surprised by this
reference to herself. She would only say, "Thank God for our
success," to which the chairman added, "Amen and Amen." He then
introduced Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, daughter of the late
Judge Cady of Albany, wife of the Hon. Henry B. Stanton of New
York, and editor of _The Revolution_. She is perhaps fifty, and
in general appearance much resembles Mrs. Davis. She is
apparently in robust health, dresses in black, with just enough
of white lace, and, with her gray hair loosely gathered, and her
strong, symmetrical and refined face and perfect self-possession,
is a noble-looking woman. Her address, or oration, was before
her, but she was not hampered by it. Her voice is clear, her
gesticulation simple, and her general manner not surpassed by
Wendell Phillips. Rough notes of an oration so finished can only
indicate the main drift of her thoughts. * * * The eloquent
peroration was heard in profound silence, followed by
enthusiastic applause. * * * The chairman read the constitution
and offered it for signatures, and the officers of the
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association were chosen.[162]

In _The Revolution_ of November 11, 1869, Mrs. Stanton giving a
description of the convention, refers to the liberality of the
governor, Marshall Jewell, and the genial hospita