on
of our national birthday in Philadelphia, when the declaration of
the mothers was received in contemptuous silence, while Dom Pedro
and other foreign dignitaries looked calmly on. Mrs. Gage makes
as dark a chapter for the Republicans as Mrs. Lockwood for the
judiciary, or Mrs. Blake for the church. Mrs. B. had been an
attentive listener during the trial of the Rev. Isaac See before
the presbytery of Newark, N. J., hence she felt moved to give the
convention a chapter of ecclesiastical history, showing the
struggles through which the church was passing with the
irrepressible woman in the pulpit. Mrs. Blake's biblical
interpretations and expositions proved conclusively that Scott's
and Clark's commentaries would at no distant day be superceded by
standard works from woman's standpoint. It is not to be supposed
that women ever can have fair play as long as men only write and
interpret the Scriptures and make and expound the laws. Why would
it not be a good idea for women to leave these conservative
gentlemen alone in the churches? How sombre they would look with
the flowers, feathers, bright ribbons and shawls all gone--black
coats only kneeling and standing--and with the deep-toned organ
swelling up, the solemn bass voice heard only in awful solitude;
not one soprano note to rise above the low, dull wail to fill the
arched roof with triumphant melody! One such experiment from
Maine to California would bring these bigoted presbyteries to
their senses.

Miss Phoebe Couzins, too, was at the convention, and gave her new
lecture, "A Woman without a Country," in which she shows all that
woman has done--from fitting out ships for Columbus, to sharing
the toils of the great exposition--without a place of honor in
the republic for the living, or a statue to the memory of the
dead. Hon. A. G. Riddle and Francis Miller spoke ably and
eloquently as usual; the former on the sixteenth amendment and
the presidential aspect, modestly suggesting that if twenty
million women had voted, they might have been able to find out
for whom the majority had cast their ballots. Mr. Miller
recommended State action, advising us to concentrate our forces
in Colorado as a shorter way to success than constitutional
amendments.

His speech aroused Susan B. Anthon