and civil officers who filled the space directly around the speaker’s stand, courteously made way, while Miss Anthony in fitting words presented the Declaration.  Mr. Ferry’s face paled, as bowing low, with no word, he received it, and it thus became a part of the day’s proceedings; the ladies turned, scattering printed copies as they deliberately passed up the aisle and off the platform.  On every side eager hands were stretched; men stood on seats and asked for them, while General Hawley, thus defied and beaten in his audacious denial to women of the right to present their Declaration, shouted, “Order, order!”

Going out through the crowd, they made their way to a platform erected for the musicians in front of Independence Hall.  Here on this historic ground, under the shadow of of Washington’s statue, back of them the old bell which proclaimed “liberty to all the land and all the inhabitants thereof,” they took their places, and to a listening, applauding crowd, Miss Anthony read a copy of the Declaration just presented to Mr. Ferry.  It was warmly applauded at many points, and after again scattering a number of printed 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