sent
by each Association and the precise time of the meeting of the
convention can be determined as soon as we shall have received
such answers to our present application as shall assure us of an
active and generous co-operation in the measure proposed, on the
part of the addressed.

LUCY STONE, CAROLINE M. SEVERANCE,
T. W. HIGGINSON, JULIA WARD HOWE,
GEO. H. VIBBERT.

Soon after, the following call was issued:

The undersigned, being convinced of the necessity for an American
Woman Suffrage Association, which shall embody the deliberate
action of the State organizations, and shall carry with it their
united weight, do hereby respectfully invite such organizations
to be represented in a Delegate Convention, to be held at
Cleveland, Ohio, November 24th and 25th, A.D., 1869.

The proposed basis of this Convention is as follows:

The delegates appointed by existing State organizations shall be
admitted, provided their number does not exceed, in each case,
that of the Congressional delegation of the State. Should it fall
short of that number, additional delegates may be admitted from
local organizations, or from no organization whatever, provided
the applicants be actual residents of the States they represent.
But no votes shall be counted in the Convention except of those
actually admitted as delegates. (Signed)

John Neal, Maine; Nathaniel White, Armenia S. White, William
T. Savage, New Hampshire; James Hutchinson, Jr., Vermont;
William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, David Lee Child,
George F. Hoar, Julia Ward Howe, Gilbert Haven, Caroline M.
Severance, James Freeman Clarke, Abby Kelly Foster, Stephen
S. Foster, Frank B. Sanborn, Phebe A. Hanaford,
Massachusetts; Elizabeth B. Chase, T. W. Higginson, Rowland
G. Hazard, Rhode Island; H. M. Rogers, Seth Rogers, Marianna
Stanton, Connecticut; George William Curtis, Lydia Mott,
Henry Ward Beecher, Frances D. Gage, Samuel J. May, Celia
Burleigh, W. H. Burleigh, Aaron M. Powell, Anna C. Field,
Gerrit Smith, E. S. Bunker, New York; Lucy Stone, Henry B.
Blackwell, John Gage, Portia Gage, Antoinette B. Blackwell,
A. J. Davis, Mary F. Davis, New Jersey; Mary Grew,