Among those who spoke from other platforms,
were Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ellen H. Sheldon, Caroline B. Winslow,
M. D., editor of _The Alpha_, and Rev. Olympia Brown. The
president of the association, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
received many invitations to speak at various points, but had
time only for the "Moral Education," "Heredity," and "Free
Religious" associations. Her engagement at Parker Memorial Hall,
prevented her from accepting the governor's invitation, but
Isabella Beecher Hooker and Susan B Anthony led the way to the
State house and introduced the delegates from the East, the West,
the North and the South, to the honored executive head of the
State, who had declared himself, publicly, in favor of woman
suffrage. The ceremony of hand-shaking over, and some hundred
women being ranged in a double circle about the desk, Mrs. Hooker
stepped forward, saying:

Speak a word to us, Governor Long, we need help. Stand here,
please, face to face with these earnest women and tell us
where help is to come from.

The Governor responded, and then introduced his secretary, who
conducted the ladies through the building.

Mrs. HOOKER said: Permit me, sir, to thank you for this
unlooked-for and unusual courtesy in the name of our
president who should be here to speak for herself and for
us, and in the name of these loyal women who ask only that
the right of the _people_ to govern themselves shall be
maintained. In this great courtesy extended us by good old
Massachusetts as citizens of this republic unitedly
protesting against being taxed without representation, and
governed without our consent, we see the beginning of the
end--the end of our wearisome warfare--a warfare which
though bloodless, has cost more than blood, by as much as
soul-suffering exceeds that of mere flesh. I see as did
Stephen of old, a celestial form close to that of the Son of
Man, and her name is Liberty--always a woman--and she bids
us go on--go on--even unto the end.

Miss Anthony standing close to the governor, said in low,
pathetic tones:

Yes, we are tired. Sir, we are weary with our work. For
forty years some of us have carried this burden, and now, if