We also ask your permission to read our Declaration of Rights immediately after the reading of the Declaration of Independence of the Fathers is finished.
Although these are small favors to ask as representatives of one-half of the nation, yet we shall be under great obligations to you if granted.
"Respectfully Yours, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." To this I received the following reply: "U.S.C.C.

Headquarters, July 2.
"Mrs.Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
"_Dear Madam_: I send you, with pleasure, half a dozen cards of invitation.

As the platform is already crowded, it is impossible to reserve the number of seats you desire.

I regret to say it is also impossible for us to make any change in the programme at this late hour.

We are crowded for time to carry out what is already proposed.
"Yours Very Respectfully, "Joseph R.Hawley, "President, U.S.C.C." With this rebuff, Mrs.Mott and I decided that we would not accept the offered seats, but would be ready to open our own convention called for that day, at the First Unitarian church, where the Rev.William H.
Furness had preached for fifty years.