address made a most favorable
impression. The question was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The majority report was adverse, the minority, signed by Robert A.
Strahan and C. P. Vedder, favorable.

A grand demonstration was made April 26, 1872, in Cooper Institute,
intended specially to emphasize the claims of wives and mothers to
the ballot, and to show that the City Association had no sympathy
with any theories of free-love. Five thousand cards of invitation
were distributed.

In 1871 women attempted to vote in different parts of the State,
among whom were Matilda Joslyn Gage at Fayetteville, and Mrs.
Louise Mansfield at Nyack, but were repulsed. In 1872 others did
vote under the fourteenth amendment, conspicuously Susan B.
Anthony, who, as an example for the rest, was arrested, tried,
convicted and fined.[215] Mrs. Gage published a woman's rights
catechism to answer objections made at that time to woman's voting,
which proved a valuable campaign document. We find the names of
Mary R. Pell of Flushing, Helen M. Loder of Poughkeepsie, and
Elizabeth B. Whitney of Harlem, frequently mentioned at this time
for their valuable services.

The following items show the varied capacity of women for many
employments:

In March, 1872, Miss Charlotte E. Ray (colored) of New York, was
graduated at the Howard University Law School, and admitted to
practice in the courts of the District of Columbia at
Washington.--The headquarters of the Women's National Relief
Association is in New York; its object is supplying government
stations along the coast with beds, blankets, warm clothing and
other necessaries for shipwrecked persons.----Miss Leggett, for a
long time proprietor of a book and paper store in New York,
established a home, in 1878, for women, on Clinton Square, which
is in all respects antipodal to Stewart's Hotel. It is governed
by no stringent rules or regulations. No woman is liable without
cause, at the mere caprice of the founder, to be suddenly
required to leave, as was the case in Judge Hilton's home. On the
contrary, it is the object of the founder to provide a _real_
home for women. The house is not only provided with a library,
piano, etc., but its inmates are allowed to bring their
sewing-machines, hang pictures upon the walls, put up private
book-racks, etc. The price, too, but $4 a week, falls more nearly
within