imagine the satisfaction that
thrilled the hearts of your countrywomen. After fourteen years of
constant petitioning, we are grateful for even this slight
recognition at last. I never before felt such an interest in any
congressional committee, and I have no doubt that all who are
interested in this reform, share in my feelings. Fortunately your
names make a great couplet in rhyme,

Lapham, Anthony and Blair,
Jackson, George, Ferry and Fair.

which will enable us to remember them always. This I discovered
in writing your names in this volume, which allow me to present
you.

The gentlemen rising in turn received with a gracious bow "The
History of Woman Suffrage" which, Mrs. Stanton told them, would
furnish all the arguments they needed to defend their clients
against the ignorance and prejudice of the world. Mr. George of
Mississippi asked why this agitation was confined to Northern
women; he had never heard the ladies of the South express the wish
to vote. Mrs. Stanton referred him to those to whom the volume
before him was dedicated. "There," said she, "you will find the
names of two ladies from one of the most distinguished families in
South Carolina, who came North over forty years ago, and set this
ball for woman's freedom in motion. But for those noble women,
Sarah and Angelina Grimke, we might not stand here to-day pleading
for justice and equality." As the speakers had requested the
committee to ask questions, they were frequently interrupted. All
urged the importance of a national protection, preferring
congressional action, to submitting the proposition to the popular
vote of the several States. On this point Mr. Jackson of Tennessee
asked many pertinent questions. Mrs. Shattuck, writing of this
occasion to the _Boston Transcript_, said:

One of the speakers eloquently testified to the interest of many
Southern women in this subject, and urged the Southern members of
the committee not to declare that the women of the South do not
want the ballot until they have investigated the matter. After
the hearing three Southern ladies, wives of congressmen, thanked
her for what she had said. The member from Mississippi showed a
great deal of interest and really became quite waked up before
the session ended. But, when we look at it in one light, there is
something exceedingly humiliating in the thought th