and that influenced the sentiment of the younger Western States,
and their enterprise was crushed. Even the Republicans in Kansas,
after witnessing this example, set their faces against the
extension of suffrage to women. The negroes got but a few more
votes than did the women.

LUCY STONE gave a resume of the progress of the cause in this
country and in England. Col. Higginson and Mrs. Rose made
excellent remarks. "Keep the ball rolling" was gracefully
rendered by Mrs. Abby Hutchinson Patton, the whole audience
joining in the chorus. Mrs. Stone presented two forms of petition
to Congress; one to extend suffrage to women in the District of
Columbia and the Territories, the other for the submission of a
proposition for a 16th Amendment to prohibit the States from
disfranchising citizens on account of sex. Frederick Douglass
made an acceptable speech in favor of the petitions. The
President announced that Mrs. Patten headed the subscription list
to aid the association in its work for the coming year with $50.
Miss Anthony presented the various tracts published by the
Society, and _The Revolution_, urging the friends of the cause to
aid in the circulation of the paper, as it was the only one owned
and edited by women, wholly devoted to the cause of Equal Rights.
Rev. Dr. Blanchard, of Brooklyn, opened the evening session with
prayer; a resolution was proposed and adopted, on the death of
James Mott, husband of Lucretia Mott, President of the first
Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls.

Rev. OLYMPIA BROWN: It is said that Nature is against us. In the
Massachusetts Legislature, Mr. Dana, Chairman of the Committee
before whom we had a hearing, said: "Nature is against it. It
will take the romance out of life to grant what you desire"! If
the romance of life is a falsehood and a fiction, we want to get
back to truth, nature and God. We all love liberty and desire to
possess it. No one worthy the name of man or woman is willing to
surrender liberty and become subservient to another. Woman may be
shut out of politics by law, but her influence will be felt
there. Some of our leading reformers work for other objects
first; the enfranchisement of the negro, the eight hour law, the
temperance cause; and leave the woman suffrage question in the