ram was received from GRACE GREENWOOD, as follows:
To T.W. HIGGINSON, _President of the Woman's Suffrage
Convention:_
Kept at home by illness. God speed the cause.
GRACE GREENWOOD.
Brief speeches were made by Rev. Mrs. Hanaford, of Massachusetts;
Mary F. Davis and Lucy Stone, of New Jersey; and Giles B.
Stebbins, of Michigan, who introduced the following resolution,
which was unanimously carried:
_Resolved_, That the National Labor Congress, representing
five hundred thousand of the workingmen of our country, at
its late session at Philadelphia, by recognizing the equal
membership and rights of men and women, of white and colored
alike, showed a spirit of broad and impartial justice worthy
of all commendation, and we hail its action as a proof of
the power of truth over prejudice and oppression, which must
be of signal benefit to its members, in helping that
self-respect, intelligence, and moral culture by which the
fair claims of labor are to be gained and the weaker truly
ennobled and elevated.
Mr. H. B. BLACKWELL presented the following:
CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
PREAMBLE: The undersigned, friends of woman suffrage,
assembled in delegate Convention in Cleveland, Ohio,
November 24th and 25th, 1869, in response to a call widely
signed and after a public notice duly given, believing that
a truly representative National organization is needed for
the orderly and efficient prosecution of the suffrage
movement in America, which shall embody the deliberate
action of State and local organizations, and shall carry
with it their united weight, do hereby form the American
Woman Suffrage Association.
ARTICLE I.
NAME: This Association shall be known as the American Woman
Suffrage Association.
ARTICLE II.
OBJECT: Its object shall be to concentrate the efforts of
all the advocates of woman, suffrage in the United States
for National purposes only, viz:
SEC. 1. To form auxiliary State Associations in every State
where none such now exist, and to co-operate
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