y will not complain, though even
_The New York Observer_ itself does claim to have done for them
the work.

During the past six years this State has been thoroughly
canvassed, and every county that has been visited by our
lecturers and tracts has rolled up petitions by the hundreds and
thousands asking for woman's right to vote and hold office--her
right to her person, her wages, her children, and her home. Again
and again have we held Conventions at the capital, and addressed
our Legislature, demanding the exercise of all our rights as
citizens of the Empire State. During the past year, we have had
six women[165] lecturing in New York for several months each.
Conventions have been held in forty counties, one or more
lectures delivered in one hundred and fifty towns and villages,
our petitions circulated, and our tracts and documents sold and
gratuitously distributed throughout the entire length and breadth
of the State.

A State Convention was held at Albany early in February. Large
numbers of the members of the Legislature listened respectfully
and attentively to the discussions of its several sessions, and
expressed themselves converts to the claims for woman. The bills
for woman's right to her property, her earnings, and the
guardianship of her children passed both branches of the
Legislature with scarce a dissenting voice, and received the
prompt signature of the Governor.

Our Legislature passed yet another bill that brings great relief
to a large class of women. It was called the Boarding-House Bill.
It provides that the keepers of private boarding-houses shall
have the right of lien on the property of boarders, precisely the
same as do hotel-keepers. We closed our work by a joint hearing
before the Committees of the Judiciary at the Capitol on the 19th
of March. Elizabeth Cady Stanton addressed them. The Assembly
Chamber was densely packed, and she was listened to with marked
attention and respect. The Judiciary Committees of neither House
reported on our petition for the right of suffrage, though the
Chairman, with a large minority of the House Committee and a
majority of the Senate Committee, favored the claim. The Hon. A.
J. Colvin, of the Senate Committee, in a letter to me, says:

"The subject was presented at so la