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March 21

Mrs. Rose spoke in Carver's Saloon to a small audience, not exceeding 100, 40 tickets only were sold, thus, $10 was the amount of receipts _

The smallness of the audience was attributable to the fact that the subject has never ["X" in left-hand margin] been agitated here, Lucy Stone spoke last January to a small audience, had a rainy night. Mrs. R's subject the Educational & Social Rights of Woman.

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Rainy & snowy this A.M. Mr. & Mrs. Davis left the St Charles - went to Carver's Saloon but Mrs. R. adjourned the meeting until Friday the 24th Called in Mrs Thompson's room, had a pleasant chat, then returned to our room & prepared notices for the Several Papers for Friday eve ning meeting. In the A. M. called on M. Thompson a young Lawyer from South Carolina to get Law Books, he looked surprised that a woman should desire to look over the musty Law Books -

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March 23d

Cloudy in the A. M. bright about noon, showers in the P.M. & a wind & rain storm in the [fore?] part of evening & clear at 9 o'clock. Visited the printing offices, The Evening Star, the only paper that has charged us for insertion of notices & the only one that reported Mrs. R's speech Most of the Editors seem kind & polite, willing to publish all the articles I gave them - at 1 o'clock went to the Capitol listened to three speeches from Southern [men?] - Millison of Va., Hunt of La. & Breckenridge of Kentucky

The 1st in favor of the original Nebraska Bill, but opposed to the Badger amendment, the 2d opposed to the Bill, out & out, on the ground that it is a violation of Good Faith, as plighted in the Missouri Compromise. The 3d in favor of the Bill, an eloquent speaker, & had he had truth for his founda tion principle, his speech would have been a most powerful one, his face had a fine expression,

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how hateful is slavery, that it prostrates such nobilites of land to so base ends. Mrs. R. & Myself dined at Gerritt Smith's Dr. James & wife of Syracuse & Mr. Hagaty & wife of Lockport were also there - Mrs. Smith's sister Tallman of Rochester & brother Fitzugh were there - passed the evening very pleasantly.

March 24

Directed tickets to Mrs Rose meeting on Political & Legal Rights of woman this evening at Carver's Saloon, to both Representatives & Senators, in all about 300 in number

Asked the Speaker of the House for the use of the Capitol on Sunday A. M. ["X" in the left margin] he referred me to Mr. Milburn the Chaplain, _ called on him he could not allow her to speak there because she was ["X" in the left margin] not a member of some religious society - I remarked to him that ours was a country professing Religious as well as Civil Liberty & for me not to allow any & every faith to be declared in the Capitol of the

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nation, made the profession to religious freedom a perfect mockery. Though acknowledged the truthfulness of my positin he could not allow a per son who failed to recognize the Divine, to speak in his place.

Mrs. Rose gave her lecture on the Political & Legal Rights of ["X" in the left margin] Woman this evening, a better audience than on Tuesday eve.

[76?] W. G. present, looked over our account of Receits & Expenditures, from the time of leaving my Albany March 14th & found that the former were ["X" in the left margin] $22.75 & the latter $114.46 notwithstanding this pecuniary loss, we can but feel that [good] has been done. The Washington people seem to gratify their love for speech hearing by attendance at the Capitol. Very few persons can draw an audience of respectable size here - The Editors here are very Polite, unlike our North ern ones, they publish notices gratis, & unlike them, they are cautious