men need that their rights
should be guaranteed by the franchise.

Miss HINDMAN urged the importance of suffragists working inside
the churches. Here is where the sympathies of society center. We
have eight million professed Christians, church-members;
three-fourths of these are women. Miss Hindman gave very
encouraging accounts of success in enlisting the pastors and
women of the churches in the suffrage work, also of the growth of
woman suffrage sentiment among the temperance women of the West.

The HUTCHINSONS sang "The Star Spangled Banner," the audience
joining in the chorus.

Mrs. STONE uttered her dissent for the words and spirit of the
song so long as women are without political rights. In conclusion
she offered the following resolutions:

1. _Resolved_, That on this Centennial Anniversary of
American Freedom, we re-affirm the principle that
"Governments derive their just powers from the consent of
the governed"--and that "Taxation without representation is
tyranny." Yet women are governed without consent, and taxed
without representation.

2. _Resolved_, That we celebrate the establishment of woman
suffrage in New Jersey, a hundred years ago, as the prophecy
and forerunner of the American future. We point with pride
to the existence of woman suffrage in Wyoming and Utah, and
we declare that as the first century of Independence has
achieved equal rights and impartial suffrage for men, so the
next century will achieve equal rights for all American
citizens irrespective of sex.

The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the meeting
adjourned.

* * * * *

The Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Woman Suffrage
Association commenced on October 2, 1876, at Handel and Haydn
Hall, Philadelphia. Mrs. MARY A. LIVERMORE presided and made the
opening address.

The Committee on Credentials made a partial report, showing one
hundred and three delegates present, representing twenty-three
States and Territories. Two other States reported themselves at
the close of the morning meeting, making in all twenty-five
States and Territories[202] represented. Brief addresses were
made by Mrs. Howe and Mrs. Frances W. Harper