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llowing citizens of Rochester concur in the above call: Samuel Richardson, Rev. Wm. H. Goodwin, Samuel Chipman, Geo. A. Avery, James P. Fogg, J. O. Bloss, Wm. K. Hallowell, James Vick, Jr., E. C. Williams, Daniel Anthony. [93] _Vice-Presidents_.--Mary C. Vaughan, Olivia Fraser, Frances Stanton Avery, Rhoda De Garmo, Sarah D. Fish, and Mrs. D. C. Ailing. _Secretaries_.--Amelia Bloomer and Susan B. Anthony. _Resolutions_.--Amy Post, Elizabeth Monroe, Rachel Van Lew. _Finance_.--Susan B. Anthony, Mary H. Hallowell, H. Attilia Albro. [94] See Appendix. [95] See Appendix. [96] _Vice-Presidents_--Mrs. Gerrit Smith, Peterboro; Mrs. E. C. Delevan, Ballston Spa; Mrs. D. C. Alling, Rochester; Lydia F. Fowler, Mrs. J. T. Coachman, Mary S. Rich, New York; Julia Clark Lewis, Oswego; Olivia Fraser, Elmira; Emily Clark, Le Roy; Mrs. A. N. Cole, Belfast; Betsy Hawks, Bethany Centre; Antoinette L. Brown, Henrietta. _Recording Secretaries_--Susan B. Anthony, Rochester; Mary C. Vaughan, Oswego. _Corresponding Secretary_--Amelia Bloomer, Seneca Falls. _Treasurer_--Elvira Marsh, Rochester. _Executive Committee_--Sarah T. Gould, Mary H. Hallowell, and Mrs. Samuel Richardson, Rochester. [97] _The Lily_ was a temperance paper started in Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1849. It was owned and edited by Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. Though starting as the organ of a society, it soon became her individual property. She carried it successfully six years, her subscription list reaching 4,000. It was as pronounced on woman's rights as temperance, and did good service in both reforms. We are indebted to _The Lily_ for most of our facts on the temperance movement in New York. [98] _Nomination_--Lemira Kedzie, Lydia F. Fowler, Amy Post, Mary H. Hallowell, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Jenkins. _Business Committee_--Emily Clark, W. H. Channing, Mary H. Hallowell, Rev. S. J. May, Mrs. Robie, Mrs. C. I. H. Nichols. _Finance_--Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Bloomer, H. Attilia Albro. Also, on motion, the President was added to the Business Committee. [99] Throughout this protracted, disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots. [100] _Vice-Presidents_--Dr. Harriot K. Hunt, Mass.; Charles C. Burliegh, Ct.; Edward M. Davis, Pa.; Frances Dana Gage, Mo.; Ash
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