Delegates were present from Canada and eight different States.

Letters were received from Angelina Grimke Weld, William Henry Channing and others; Horace Greeley sent much good advice; Garrison wrote: "You have as noble an object in view, aye and as Christian a one too, as ever was advocated beneath the sun.
Heaven bless all your proceedings." Rev.A.D.Mayo said in a long letter: I have never questioned what I believed to be the central principle of the reform in which you are engaged.

I believe that every mature soul is responsible directly to God, not only for its faith and opinions, but for its details of life.

The assertion that woman is responsible to man for her belief or conduct, in any other sense than man is responsible to woman, I reject, not as a believer in any theory of "woman's rights," but as a believer in that religion which knows neither male nor female in its imperative demand upon the individual conscience.
George W.Johnson, of Buffalo, chairman of the State committee of the Liberty party, sent $10 and these vigorous sentiments: "Woman has, equally with man, the inalienable right to education, suffrage, office, property, professions, titles and honors--to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

False to our sex, as well as her own, and false to herself and her God, is the woman who approves, or who submits without resistance or protest, to the social and political wrongs imposed upon her in common with her sex throughout the world." Mrs.
Stanton's letter, read with hearty approval by Miss Anthony, raised the usual breeze in the convention.