. Wheeler, Mrs. Myra Bradwell; _Secretaries_, Mrs.
Jeanne Fowler Willing, of Rockford, Mrs. Elizabeth Babbitt, and
George Graham, Esq.; _Committee on Finance_, Judge Bradwell,
General Beveridge and the Hon. S. M. Booth. The speakers were Anna
Dickinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Rev. Robert
Collyer, Rev. Mr. Hammond, Rev. Robert Laird Collier, Kate N.
Doggett, and many of the officers of the convention.

[355] For this speech see Vol. II., page 348.

[356] The officers of the convention were: _President_, Mary A.
Livermore; _Vice-Presidents_, the Rev. Robert Collyer, Professor
Haven; _Recording Secretary_, Jeanne Willing, of Rockford;
_Corresponding Secretary_, Myra Bradwell; _Executive Committee_,
Professor Haven, chairman; the Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, Elizabeth
J. Loomis, Hannah B. Manford, the Rev. E. Eggleston, the Rev. C. H.
Fowler the Rev. E. J. Goodspeed, Rebecca Mott, Charlotte L.
Levanway.

[357] The committee to visit Springfield were Hon. James B.
Bradwell, Mrs. Myra Bradwell, Mrs. Kate N. Doggett, the Rev. E.
Goodspeed, the Hon. C. B. Waite, and Mrs. Rebecca Mott.

[358] _Indiana_--Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, Dr. Mary Wilhite, Emma
Mallory, and Amanda Way; _Missouri_--Rebecca N. Hazzard;
_Wisconsin_--Lelia Peckham; _Iowa_--Mary Newbury Adams, Matilda
Fletcher; _Minnesota_--Mrs. Bishop; _Kansas_--Mrs. Henry;
_Ohio_--Margaret V. Longley; _Michigan_--Professor Stone;
_Massachusetts_--Henry B. Blackwell, and Lucy Stone; _New
York_--Susan B. Anthony, most of whom took part in the discussions.

[359] Letters were also received from Paulina Wright Davis,
Frederick Douglass, Hon. Sharon Tyndale, Rev. D. H. N. Powers, Mrs.
Arabella Mansfield, Rev. Willis Lord.

[360] The speakers were Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. Stone, Hon. Sharon
Tyndale, Hon. E. Haines, and Judge Bradwell.

[361] One thousand three hundred and eighty women of Peoria also
prayed that the constitution might not be so amended as to
enfranchise women; another evidence of the demoralizing influence
of any form of slavery upon the human mind. Had not these women
been lacking in a proper self-respect they would not have protested
against the right to govern themselves.--[E. C. S.

[362] Our limited space prevents the publication of Judge Waite's
argument and Judge Jameson's decision.

[363] Jane Graham Jones and Elizabeth Loomis represented the Cook
County Association. Delegates from several other districts were
present. The speakers