ion exists, we urge individual
effort and the immediate formation of a State Society.

[204] President--Mrs. Rebecca N. Hazard, of Missouri.

[205] The President chosen for the ensuing year was Henry B.
Blackwell.

[206] 1. _Resolved_, That we urge upon Congress the performance of
three important duties in behalf of the women of America--

First, To enact a law giving women citizens of the United States,
resident in the Territories, the same political rights as are
exercised by the male citizens of the United States resident therein.

Second, To reform the laws affecting the rights of married women in
the District of Columbia and the Territories.

Third, To submit to the States a constitutional amendment prohibiting
political distinction on account of sex.

2. _Resolved_, That we advise our auxiliary State societies to
petition their respective Legislatures to enact a law this winter
conferring suffrage on women in Presidential elections under Section
2, Article 2, of the Federal Constitution.

WHEREAS, Since the last annual meeting of the Association, three
eminent advocates of the claim of women for equal political rights
have passed away--Lucretia Mott, Lydia Maria Child, and Nathaniel
White--therefore,

3. _Resolved_, That the American Woman Suffrage Association records
its grateful appreciation of their invaluable service and its sense of
irreparable loss, now that the eloquent voice is silent, the ready pen
dropped, and the generous hand is cold in death. In the wealth of
their matured character and great achievement they have left us the
permanent inspiration of a noble example.

[207] President, Dr. Mary F. Thomas, of Indiana.

APPENDIX.

CHAPTER XVI.

WOMAN'S PATRIOTISM IN THE WAR.

_House of Representatives_ (_46th Congress_, _3d Session_. Report No.
386).

ANNA ELLA CARROLL.

_March 3, 1881._--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House, and
ordered to be printed.

Mr. Bragg, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the
following Report (to accompany bill H. R. 7,256):

_The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom the memorial of Anna Ella
Carroll was referred, asking national recognition and reward for
services rendered the United States during the war between the States,
after careful consideration of the same, submit the following:_

In the autumn of 1861 the great question as to whether the Union could
be saved, or whether it was hopelessly subverted, depended o