religious right."

[190] _President_, Mrs. Armenia S. White. _Vice-Presidents_, Rev.
J.F. Lovering, Concord; Mrs. A.L. Thomas, Laconia; Ossian Ray,
Lancaster; Mrs. S. Pillsbury, Concord; J.V. Aldrich, West Concord;
Mrs. Mary Worcester, Nashua; Mrs. Mary Barker, Alton; Peter
Kimball, Grafton; E.J. Durant, Lebanon; Mrs. Fannie V. Roberts,
Dover; Miss A.C. Payson, Peterboro; Mrs. E.A. Bartlett, Kingston;
Mr. Springfield, South Wolfboro; Galen Foster, Canterbury; Mrs.
R.M. Miller, Manchester; Mrs. Nancy Gilman, Tilton; C. Ballou,
North Weare; D. Burnham, Plymouth. _Executive Committee_, Nathaniel
White, Mrs. E.C. Lovering, Col. J.E. Larkin, Concord; Mrs. J. Abby
Ela, Rochester; Rev. Wm. T. Savage, Franklin; Mrs. Eliza Morrill,
Mrs. Daniel Holden, West Concord; Miss Caroline Foster, Canterbury;
P.B. Cogswell, Mrs. Louisa Wood, Mrs. M.M. Smith, Concord; Dr.
M.V.A. Hunt, Manchester. _Recording Secretary_, Mrs. E.C. Lovering,
Concord. _Corresponding Secretary_, Dr. J. Gallinger. _Treasurer_,
Jas. H. Chase.

[191] Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, Frederick Hinckley, Lucy Stone, Frances Ellen Harper,
Dr. Sarah H. Hathaway, Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, Rev. Mr. Connor,
Rev. Ada C. Bowles, Emma Coe Still, Rev. Lorenza Haynes, Mary Grew,
Mary A. Livermore, Elizabeth K. Churchill, Margaret W. Campbell,
Anna Dickinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Rev.
Olympia Brown, Lillie Devereux Blake, Elizabeth A. Meriwether,
Elizabeth Lisle Saxon, Susan B. Anthony.

[192] The speakers at this hearing were Mr. Galen Foster of
Canterbury, Senators Gallinger and Shaw, Mrs. Abby Goold Woolson,
H. P. Rolfe, S. B. Page, Rev. E. L. Conger and Mrs. Armenia S.
White.

[193] Reelected to the Senate, June, 1885.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

VERMONT.

Clarina Howard Nichols--Council of Censors--Amending the
Constitution--St. Andrew's Letter--Mr. Reed's Report--Convention
Called--H. B. Blackwell on the _Vermont Watchman_--Mary A.
Livermore in the _Woman's Journal_--Sarah A. Gibbs' Reply to Rev.
Mr. Holmes--School Suffrage.

After the miseries growing out of the civil war were in a measure
mitigated, there was a general awakening in the New England States
on the question of suffrage for women, and in 1868 one after
another organized for action. What Nathaniel P. Rogers was to New
Hampshire in the anti-slavery struggle that was Clarina Howard
Nichols[194] to Vermont in early ca