"Solid North" or "Solid South"? What else but
its recognition to drive every liquor-saloon from the land,
making temperance universal? What but this to bring about
the great system of social morality--making it as heinous a
crime for man to do wrong as for woman....

FRANCIS D. GAGE.

_Bunker Hill, McCoupin Co., Ill., Oct. 23, 1879._

Mrs. Cutler continued in a pertinent speech. Miss Hindman
followed with an able argument to show why and where women need
the ballot. Mrs. E. Dickerson, of St. Louis, Dr. Wilson, of
Cincinnati, and Lucy Stone followed. Each of these in their
special way showed how to secure justice to women. Mrs. Dickerson
answered objections, and put phases of the law as applied to
women in fine contrast with the law as applied to men. Dr.
Wilson, in a wide-awake lively speech, advised women to try a new
method, and starve out the men who would not concede their
rights. He said, "Give them no coffee for breakfast, nor steak
for dinner, and nothing good for supper until they put the ballot
in your hands." He gave deserved blame to women for not being
more active in their own behalf. This breezy speech was often
applauded, and good-natured criticism followed, putting the
heaviest duty on the shoulders of men who have the power to free
women, but still do not do it. The last speech of the evening was
made by Lucy Stone, who showed the dreary helplessness implied in
disfranchisement, and who sought to arouse women to a proper
resentment against such degradation of position. Then was sung,
"Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," and thus closed the
tenth annual meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association.

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The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Woman Suffrage
Association held its sessions in 1880 at Washington, D. C.
Delegates were present from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio,
Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa. A large and intelligent audience
nearly filled the body and galleries of the large hall. The
meeting was called to order by the President, HENRY B. BLACKWELL,
who said: Fellow-citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Annual
Meeting of