copies,
the delegation descended from the platform and hastened to the
convention of the National Association. A meeting had been
appointed at 12 o'clock, in the First Unitarian church, where Rev.
William H. Furness preached for fifty years, but whose pulpit was
then filled by Joseph May, a son of Rev. Samuel J. May. They found
the church crowded with an expectant audience, which greeted them
with thanks for what they had just done; the first act of this
memorable day taking place on the old centennial platform in
Independence Square, the last in a church so long devoted to
equality and justice.

The venerable Lucretia Mott, then in her eighty-fourth year,
presided. Belva A. Lockwood took up the judiciary, showing the way
that body lends itself to party politics. Matilda Joslyn Gage spoke
upon the writ of habeas corpus, pointing out what a mockery to
married women was that constitutional guarantee. Lucretia Mott
reviewed the progress of the reform from the first convention. Sara
Andrews Spencer illustrated the evils arising from two codes of
morality. Lillie Devereux Blake spoke upon trial by jury; Susan B.
Anthony upon taxation without representation, illustrating her
remarks by incidents of unjust taxation of women during the present
year. Elizabeth Cady Stanton pictured the aristocracy of sex and
the evils arising from manhood suffrage. Judge Esther Morris, of
Wyoming, said a few words in regard to suffrage in that territory.
Phoebe Couzins, with great pathos, told of woman's work in the war.
Margaret Parker, president of the women's suffrage club of Dundee,
Scotland, and of the newly formed International W.C.T.U., declared
this was worth the journey across the Atlantic. Mr. J.H. Raper, of
Manchester, England, characterized it as the grandest meeting of
the day, and said the patriot of a hundred years hence would seek
for every incident connected with it, and the next Centennial would
be adorned by the portraits of the women who sat upon that
platform.

The Hutchinsons were present and in their best vein interspersed
the speeches with appropriate and felicitous songs. Lucretia Mott
did not confine herself to a single speech but, in Quaker style,
whenever the spirit moved made many happy points. As her sweet and
placid countenance appeared above the pulpit, the Hutchins