a Falls in 1848, will be present to give their reminiscences.
That convention was scarcely mentioned by the local press; now, over
the whole world, equality for woman is demanded. In the United States,
woman suffrage is the chief political question of the hour. Great
Britain is deeply agitated upon the same topic. Germany has a princess
at the head of its national woman's rights organization. Portugal,
Spain and Russia have been roused. In Rome an immense meeting, composed
of the representatives of Italian democracy, was recently called in the
Coliseum; one of its resolutions demanded a reform in the laws relating
to woman and a re-establishment of her natural rights. Turkey, France,
England, Switzerland, Italy, sustain papers devoted to woman's
enfranchisement. A Grand International Woman's Rights Congress is to be
held in Paris, in September of this year, to which the whole world is
invited to send delegates, and this congress is to be under the
management of the most renowned liberals of Europe. Come up, then,
friends, and celebrate the silver wedding of the woman suffrage
movement. Let our twenty-fifth anniversary be one of power; our reform
is everywhere advancing, let us redouble our energies and our courage.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, _President_; MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, _Chairman Executive
Committee_.]

[Footnote 70: See Appendix for speech in full.]

[Footnote 71: See Appendix for newspaper comment.]

[Footnote 72: A full report of this trial, testimony, arguments of
counsel, etc., may be found in the History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. II,
beginning page 647.]

[Footnote 73: Can a judge with propriety prepare a _written_ opinion
before he has heard all the arguments in a case?]

[Footnote 74: The Buffalo suffrage club sent $100; the Chicago club,
through Mrs. Fernando Jones, $75; the Milwaukee club, through Madame
Anneke, $50; the Milwaukee "radicals," $20; the New York club, through
Lillie Devereux Blake, $50; the patients at the Dansville Sanitarium,
$30. Dr. Lozier sent $30; Lucretia Mott, $30; Dr. E.B. Foote, of New
York, $25; Phebe Jones, of Albany, $25; Dr. Sarah Dolley, of Rochester,
$20; the Hallowells, $25; the Glastonbury Smith sisters, $20; and from
men and women in all parts of the country came sums from fifty cents
upwards, all amounting to over $1,100. Gerrit Smith sent at first $30
to help defray the expenses of the trial, and after it was over a draft
for $100, saying: "I send you herewith the money to pa