Judge Hertell, Judge Fine, and Mr.Geddes of Syracuse prepared and championed the several bills, at different times, before the legislature.

Hence the demands made in the convention were not entirely new to the reading and thinking public of New York--the first State to take any action on the question.

As New York was the first State to put the word "male" in her constitution in 1778, it was fitting that she should be first in more liberal legislation.

The effect of the convention on my own mind was most salutary.

The discussions had cleared my ideas as to the primal steps to be taken for woman's enfranchisement, and the opportunity of expressing myself fully and freely on a subject I felt so deeply about was a great relief.