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[65] Twenty delegates from eleven different States, who had been in attendance at Chicago, went to Cincinnati.

[66] Before which Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Meriwether, Miss Anthony, Mrs.

Spencer and Mrs. Blake spoke.

[67] Miss Anthony, Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Meriwether, Mrs.

Saxon, Miss. Couzins, Rev. Olympia Brown, Misses Rachel and Julia Foster.

[68] This was the last time this n.o.ble German woman honored our platform, as her eventful life closed a few years after.

[69] Among others, from a.s.semblyman Lord, State-Superintendent-of-Public-Instruction Whitford, J. M. Bingham and Superintendent MacAlister.

[70] The delegates were Olympia Brown, _Racine_; L. C. Galt, M. M.

Frazier, _Mukwonago_; E. A. Brown, _Berlin_; E. M. Cooley, _Eureka_; E. L. Woolcott, _Ripon_; O. M. Patton, M. D., _Appleton_; H. Suhm, E. Hohgrave, _Sauk City_; M. W. Mabbs, C. M. Stowers, _Manitowoc_; S. C. Guernsey, _Janesville_; H. T. Patchin, _New London_; Jennie Pomeroy, _Grand Rapids_; Mrs. H. W. Rice, _Oconomowoc_; Amy Wins.h.i.+p, _Racine_; Almedia B. Gray, Matilda Graves, Jessie Gray, _Scholfield Mills_; Mrs. Mary Collins, _Mukwonago_; Mrs. Jere Witter, _Grand Rapids_; Mrs. Lucina E.

DeWolff, _Whitewater_. The Milwaukee delegates were: Dr. Laura R.

Wolcott, Mme. Mathilde Franceske Anneke, Mrs. A. M. Bolds, Mrs. A.

Flagge, Agnes B. Campbell, Mary A. Rhienart, Matilda Pietsch, N. J.

Comstock, Sarah R. Munro, M. D., Juliet H. Severance, M. D., Mrs.

Emily Firega, Carl Doerflinger. Maximillian Grossman and Carl Herman Boppe.

[71] 1. Silent Invocation. 2. Music. 3. Eulogy, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 4. Tributes, Frederick Dougla.s.s, Susan B. Anthony. 5.

Music. 6. Tributes, Robert Purvis, May Wright Sewall, Phoebe W.

Couzins. 7. Closing Hymn--”_Nearer, my G.o.d, to Thee_.”

[72] Of the floral decorations, to which reference is made above as contributing so largely to the handsome appearance of the stage, the harp was furnished through Mr. Wormley in behalf of the colored admirers of Mrs. Mott, and the _epergne_ was provided for the occasion by the National a.s.sociation. There was also a basket of flowers, conspicuous for its beauty, sent in by Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania.

[73] The eulogy will be found in Volume I., page 407.

[74] See _National Citizen_ of February, 1881.

[75] Edward M. Davis, Susan B. Anthony, Marilla M. Ricker, Rachel and Julia Foster, Frederick Dougla.s.s, Belva A. Lockwood, Robert Purvis, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This was the first time that Mrs.

Martha M'Clellan Brown, Miss Jessie Waite, Mrs. May Wright Sewall and Mrs. Thornton Charles were on our Was.h.i.+ngton platform. The latter read a poem on woman's sphere.

[76] A standing committee is a permanent one about which no question can be raised in any congress. A special committee is a transient one to be decided upon at the opening of each congress; hence may be at any time voted out of existence. No one understood this better than New York's Stalwart senator, and his plausible manner of killing the measure deceived the very elect. Enough senators were pledged to have carried Mr. McDonald's motion had it been properly understood, but they, as well as some of the ladies in the gallery, were entirely misled by Mr. Conkling's seeming earnest intention to hasten the demands of the women by a short-lived committee, and while those in the gallery applauded, those on the floor defeated the measure they intended to carry.

[77] _Yeas_--Messrs. Beck, Booth, Brown, c.o.ke, Davis (W. Va.), Eaton, Edmunds, Farley, Garland, Groome, Hill (Ga.), Harris, Ingalls, Kernan, Lamar, Morgan, Morrill, Pendleton, Platt, Pugh, Ransom, Saulsbury, Slater, Vance, Vest and Withers--26.

_Nays_--Messrs. Anthony, Blair, Burnside, Butler, Call, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron (Wis.), Conkling, Dawes, Ferry, h.o.a.r, Johnston, Jonas, Kellogg, Logan, McDonald, McMillan, McPherson, Rollins, Saunders, Teller, Williams and Windom--23.

[78] Of this reception the _National Republican_ said: The attractions presented by the fair seekers of the ballot were so much superior to those of the dancing reception going on in the parlors above, that it was almost impossible to form a set of the lanciers until after the gathering in the lower parlors had entirely dispersed.

[79] Miss Anthony was presented with a beautiful basket of flowers from Mrs. Mary Hamilton Williams of Fort Wayne, Ind., and returned her thanks. Another interesting incident during the proceedings of the convention was the presentation of an exquisite gold cross from the ”Philadelphia Citizens' Suffrage a.s.sociation,” to Miss Anthony.

Mrs. Sewall of Indianapolis, in a speech so tender and loving as to bring tears to many eyes, conveyed to her the message and the gift.

Miss Anthony's acceptance was equally happy and impressive. As during the last thirty years the press of the country has made Susan B. Anthony a target for more ridicule and abuse than any other woman on the suffrage platform, it is worth noting that all who know her now vie with each other in demonstrations of love and honor.--[E. C. S.

[80] PROVIDENCE, R. I.--First Light Infantry Hall, May 30, 31. Rev.