change of only 29 votes out of 331 would have made woman
suffrage this year a part of the Republican platform of
Massachusetts. Thus women have been admitted to represent
men in a political State Convention. The next step will be
that women will represent themselves.

With all these cheering indications, we have only to keep
our question of woman's right to the ballot clear and
unmixed with other issues, and the growing public sympathy
will soon carry our cause to a successful issue.

Judge Bradwell, of Chicago, presented the following letter to the
Chair, which was read to the Association:

_To the American Woman Suffrage Association;_

FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS: We, the undersigned, a committee
appointed by the Union Woman Suffrage Society in New York,
May, 1870, to confer with you on the subject of merging the
two organizations into one, respectfully announce:

1st. That in our judgment no difference exists between the
objects and methods of the two societies, nor any good
reason for keeping them apart.

2d. That the society we represent has invested us with full
power to arrange with you a union of both under a single
constitution and executive.

3d. That we ask you to appoint a committee of equal number
and authority with our own, to consummate if possible this
happy result.

Yours, in the common cause of woman's enfranchisement,

LAURA CURTIS BULLARD, ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER,
GERRIT SMITH, SAMUEL J. MAY,
SARAH PUGH, CHARLOTTE E. WILBOUR,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING,
MATTIE GRIFFITH BROWN, THEODORE TILTON, _ex officio_.
JAMES W. STILLMAN,

Judge BRADWELL made a few remarks on the subject of the letter,
advocating the union of the two organizations, and proposing the
following resolution:

_Whereas_, In Article II. of the Constitution of the
American Woman Suffrage Association it is stated, "Its
object shall be to concentrate the efforts of all the
advocates of woman suffrage in the United States," and
whereas the Union Woman Suffrage Association, of which
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