h every type and shade of manhood thus exalted above their heads,
there never was a time when all women, rich and poor, white and black,
native and foreign, should be so wide awake to the degradation of
their position, and so persistent in their demands to be recognized in
the government.

Woman's enfranchisement is now a practical question in England and the
United States. With bills before Parliament, Congress, and all our
State Legislatures--with such able champions as John Stuart Mill and
George William Curtis, woman need but speak the word to secure her
political freedom to-day.

We sincerely hope that in the coming National Anniversary every State
and Territory, East and West, North and South, will be represented. We
invite delegates, too, from all those countries in the Old World where
women are demanding their political rights.

Let there be a grand gathering in the metropolis of the nation, that
Republicans and Democrats may alike understand, that with the women of
this country lies a political power in the future, that both parties
would do well to respect.

The following speakers from the several States are pledged: Anna E.
Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Mary A. Livermore, Madam Anneke, Lillie
Peckham, Phoebe Couzins, M. H. Brinkerhoff, Mrs. Frances McKinley,
Amelia Bloomer, Olive Logan, Mrs. E. Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Henry Ward Beecher, Olympia Brown, Robert Purvis, Josephine
S. Griffing, Lucy Stone, Ernestine L. Rose, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore
Tilton, Rev. O. B. Frothingham.

LUCRETIA MOTT, _President_.

_Vice-Presidents_, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Henry
Ward Beecher, Martha C. Wright, Frances D. Gage, New York; Olympia
Brown, Massachusetts; Elizabeth B. Chase, Rhode Island; Charles
Prince, Connecticut; Robert Purvis, Pennsylvania; Antoinette B.
Blackwell, New Jersey; Josephine S. Griffing, Washington, D. C.;
Thomas Garrett, Delaware; Stephen H. Camp, Ohio; Euphemia Cochrane,
Michigan; Mary A. Livermore, Illinois; Mrs. I. H. Sturgeon, Missouri;
Amelia Bloomer, Iowa; Mary A. Starrett, Kansas; Virginia Penny,
Kentucky.

_Corresponding Secretary_, Mary E. Gage.

_Recording Secretaries_, Henry B. Blackwell, Harriet Purvis.

_Treasurer_, John J. Merritt.

_Executive Committee_, Lucy Stone, Edward S. Bunker, Elizabeth R.
Tilton, Ernestine L. Rose, Robert J. Johnston, Edwin A. Studwell, Anna
Cromwell Field, Susan B. Anthony, T