Chapter 2

NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, HEARINGS AND REPORTS.

1877-1878-1879.

Renewed Appeal for a Sixteenth Amendment--Mrs. Gage Petitions for a Removal of Political Disabilities--Ninth Washington Convention, 1877--Jane Grey Swisshelm--Letters, Robert Purvis, Wendell Phillips, Francis E. Abbott--10,000 Petitions Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections by Special Request of the Chairman, Hon. O. P. Morton, of Indiana--May Anniversary in New York--Tenth Washington Convention, 1878--Frances E. Willard and 30,000 Temperance Women Petition Congress--40,000 Petition for a Sixteenth Amendment--Hearing before the Committee on Privileges and Elections--Madam Dahlgren's Protest--Mrs. Hooker's Hearing on Washington's Birthday--Mary Clemmer's Letter to Senator Wadleigh--His Adverse Report--Thirtieth Anniversary, Unitarian Church, Rochester, N. Y., July 19, 1878--The Last Convention Attended by Lucretia Mott--Letters, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips--Church Resolution Criticised by Rev. Dr. Strong--International Women's Congress in Paris--Washington Convention, 1879--Favorable Minority Report by Senator Hoar--U. S. Supreme Court Opened to Women--May Anniversary at St. Louis--Address of Welcome by Phoebe Couzins--Women in Council Alone--Letter from Josephine Butler, of England--Mrs. Stanton's Letter to _The National Citizen and Ballot-Box_ 57