SPEAKERS IN THE CONVENTION.

Lucretia Mott, Abby H. Price, W. H. Channing ine L. Rose, Abby K. Foster, C. C. Burleigh, Phillips, J. N. Buffum, S. S. Foster, Harriot K Antoinette L. Brown, Mrs. Ball, W. A. Alcott, S Truth, A. Brown, Frederick Douglass, Wm. Lloyd C Sarah Tyndale, Martha H. Mowry, Lucy Stone.

LETTERS TO THE CONVENTION WERE RECEIVED

Elizabeth C. Stanton, Samuel J. May, L. A. Elizur Wright, O. S. Fowler, E. A. Lukens, M Chappelsmith, Nancy M. Baird, Jane Cowen, Sop Little, Elizabeth Wilson, Maria L. Varney, Mild Spafard, H. M. Weber.

MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION.

MASSACHUSETTS.-T. B. Elliot, Eliza J. Kenney, Firth, Julia A. McIntyre, Emily Sanford, H. M. Sa C. D. M. Lane, Elizabeth Firth, S. C. Sargeant C. Ball, M. A. Thompson, Lucinda Safford, S. E. Hall, Holmes, Z. W. Harlow, N. B. Spooner, Ignatius Sa A. B. Humphrey, M. R. Hadwen, J. H. Shaw, Darling, M. A. Walden, A. P. B. Rawson, Nath Barney, Sarah H. Earle, Lewis Ford, J. T. Everett, L Moody, Sojourner Truth, Rev. J. G. Forman, An Stone, M. D., Samuel May. Jr., Sarah R. May, Ch Brigham, J. T. Partridge, Eliza C. Clapp, Daniel Stew Sophia Foord, E. A. Clarke, E. H. Taft, Anna E. Rug Mary Abbot, Anna E. Fish, C. G. Munyan, Maria Southwick, F. C. Johnson, Thomas Hill, Elizabeth F Eli Belknap, M. M. Frail, Valentine Belknap, Effing L. Capron, Frances H. Drake, E. M. Dodge, Eliza Bar Lydia Barney, G. D. Williams, Elizabeth Earle, E. J Alden, Elizabeth Dayton, Lima H. Ober, Dorothy Whit Emily Whiting, Abigail Morgan, Mary R. Metcalf, R. Ober, D. A. Mundy, Dr. S. Rogers, Mrs. E. J. Hensha Edward Southwick, E. A. Merrick, Mrs. C. Merrick, C.

Dow, Josiah Henshaw, Andrew Wellington, Louisa Gleason, Paulina Gerry, Lucy Stone, Mrs. Chickery, Mrs. F. A. Pierce, C. M. Trenor, R. C. Capron, William Lloyd Garrison, Emily Loveland, Mrs. S. Worcester, Phebe Worcester, Adeline Worcester, Joanna R. Ballou, Abby H. Price, B. Willard, T. Pool, M. B. Kent, E. H. Knowlton, D. H. Knowlton, G. Valentine, A. Prince, Lydia Wilmarth, J. G. Warren, Mrs. E. A. Stowell, Martin Stowell, Mrs. E. Stamp, C. M. Barbour, Anna Q. T. Parsons, C. D. McLane, W. H. Channing, Wendell Phillips, Abby K. Foster, S. S. Foster, Wm. D. Cady, Mrs. J. G. Hodgden, C. M. Shaw, Ophelia D. Hill, Mrs. P. Allen, E. Goddard, M. F. Gilbert, A. H. Johnson, W. H. Harrington, E. B. Briggs, A. C. Lackey, Ora Ober, Thomas Provan, Rebecca Provan, A. W. Thayer, M. M. Munyan, W. H. Johnson, G. W. Benson, Mrs. C. M. Carter, H. S. Brigham, E. A. Welsh, Mrs. J. H. Moore, Margaret S. Merritt, Martha Willard, A. N. Lamb, Mrs. Chaplin, N. B. Hill, K. H. Parsons, C. Jillson, L. Wait, F. H. Underwood, J. B. Willard, Perry Joslin, Elizabeth Johnson, Seneth Smith, Marian Hill, Wm. Coe, E. T. Smith, S. Aldrich, M. A. Maynard, S. P. R., J. N. Cummings, Nancy Fay, M. Jane Davis, D. R. Crandell, E. M. Burleigh, Sarah Chafee, Adeline Perry, Lydia E. Chase, J. A. Fuller, Sarah Prentice, Emily Prentice, H. N. Fairbanks, Mrs. A. Crowl, Dwight Tracy, J. S. Perry, Isaac Norcross, E. A. Parrington, Mrs. Parrington, Harriot K. Hunt, Charles F. Hovey, Susan Fuller, Thomas Earle, Alice C. Earle, Martha B. Earle, Anne H. Southwick, Joseph A. Howland, Adeline H. Howland, O. T. Harris, Julia T. Harris, John M. Spear, E. D. Draper, D. R. P. Hewitt, L. G. Wilkins, J. H. Binney, Mary Adams, Anna Goulding, Olive W. Hastings.— 186.

CONNECTICUT.-C. M. Collins, A. H. Metcalf, Anna Cornell, S. Munroe, Anna E. Price, M. C. Munroe, Martha Smith, Lucius Holmes, Benj. Segur, Buel Picket, Lucy T. Dike, Asa Cutler, C. C. Burleigh, Gertrude R. Burleigh.

RHODE ISLAND.-Elizabeth B. Chace, Cynthia P. Bliss,

R. M. C. Capron, M. H. Mowry, Mary Eddy, Daniel Mitchell, Paulina W. Davis, G. Davis, A. Barnes, Dr. S. Mowry, Betsey F. Lawton.

VERMONT.-Mrs. A. E. Brown, Mrs. C. I. H. Nichols. NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Sarah Pillsbury, P. B. Cogswell, Parker Pillsbury, Ira Foster, Julia Worcester.

MAINE. Oliver Dennett, Anna R. Blake, Ellen M. Prescott.

NEW YORK.-Antoinette L. Brown, Pliny Sexton, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Hicks, J. C. Hathaway, Lucy N. Colman, Ernestine L. Rose, S. H. Hallock, Joseph Carpenter.

PENNSYLVANIA. -Hannah M. Darlington, Sarah Tyndale, Olive W. Hastings, Rebecca Plumley, S. L. Hastings, Janette Jackson, Anna R. Cox, Phebe Goodwin, Alice Jackson, Jacob Pierce, Lewis E. Capen, S. L. Miller, Isaac L. Miller, Lucretia Mott, Emma Parker.

OHIO.- Marian Blackwell, Ellen Blackwell, M. A. W. Johnson.

IOWA.- Silas Smith.

CALIFORNIA.-Mary G. Wright.

UNKNOWN.-Sophia Taft, Calvin Fairbanks, D. H. Knowlton, Alice H. Easton, E. W. K. Thompson, Mary R. Hubbard, E. J. Alden, Anna T. Draper, Josephine Reglar, Diana W. Ballou, Adeline S. Greene, Silence Bigelow, A. Wyman, L. H. Ober, Aseneth Fuller, Denney M. F. Walker, Eunice D. F. Pierce, Elijah Houghton. -82. Total, 268.

E.

HARRIOT K. HUNT'S PROTEST AGAINST TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

IN "Glances and Glimpses,” a book published by Dr Hunt in 1856, the writer gives her own experience at the time she was converted to the doctrine of "no taxation

without representation." She says: "In October, 1851, when my taxes were to be paid, it was necessary for me to go to the Assessors' room that I might have some alteration made in the bill. While waiting there for this to be attended to, I received a lesson which thoroughly converted me to the belief that taxation without representation is a violation of human rights, and there I made up my mind to verify my theory by my practice. What so suddenly produced this effect? A pale, thin, waxy, tall, awkward, simple Irish boy, with that vacant stare which speaks of entire negation, and that shuffling manner indicating an errandlike aspect, brought into the Assessors' office a roll. It was near the time of an election, but I did not think of it. I said pleasantly, 'Is that paper to grant a naturalization?' I received a polite affirmative. 'Permit me to look at it?' 'Certainly.' There to my astonishment the above-described gentleman was invested with all the privileges of an American citizen. I query whether this Irish boy knew in what state Boston was located, whether in Massachusetts or Mississippi. This circumstance gave me an insight into the injustice of our laws forbidding women to vote, which decided me to pay my taxes next year under protest. Accordingly I sent the following protest:

To Frederick U. Tracy, Treasurer, and the Assessors, and other authorities of the City of Boston, and the citizens generally.

Harriot K. Hunt, physician, a native and permanent resident of the City of Boston, and for many years a tax payer therein, in making payment of her city taxes for the coming year, begs leave to protest against the injustice and inequality of levying taxes upon women, and at the same time refusing them any voice or vote in the imposition and expenditure of the same. The only classes of male persons required to pay taxes and not at the same time allowed the privilege of voting, are aliens and minors. The objection

in the case of aliens, is, their supposed want of interest in our institutions, and knowledge of them. The objection in case of minors, is, the want of sufficient understanding. These objections certainly cannot apply to women, natives of the city, all whose property and interests are here, and who have accumulated by their own sagacity and industry the very property on which they are taxed. But this is not all; the alien by going through the forms of naturalization, the minor on coming of age, obtain the right of voting, and so long as they continue to pay a mere poll-tax of a dollar and a half, they may continue to exercise it, though so ignorant as not to be able to sign their names, or read the very votes they put into the ballot boxes. Even drunkards, felons, idiots, or lunatics of men, may still enjoy that right of voting, to which no woman · - however large the amount of taxes she pays, however respectable her character or useful her life-can ever attain. Wherein, your remon strant would inquire, is the justice, equality, or wisdom of this?

That the rights and interests of the female part of the community are sometimes forgotten or disregarded in consequence of their deprivation of political rights, is strikingly evinced, as appears to your remonstrant, in the organization and administration of the city public schools. Though there are open in this State and neighborhood a great multitude of colleges and professional schools, for the education of boys and young men, yet the city has very properly provided two high schools of its own, one Latin, the other English, at which the male graduates of the grammar schools may pursue their education still further at the public expense, and why is not a like provision made for the girls? Why is the public provision for their education stopped short, just as they have attained the age best fitted for progress, and the preliminary knowledge neces sary to facilitate it, thus giving the advantage of superior culture to sex, not to mind? The fact that our colleges and professional schools are closed against females, of which