entlemen present in favor of the
movement:

Richard P. Hunt, Charles L. Hoskins,
Samuel D. Tilman, Thomas McClintock,
Justin Williams, Saron Phillips,
Elisha Foote, Jacob Chamberlain,
Frederick Douglass, Jonathan Metcalf,
Henry W. Seymour, Nathan J. Milliken,
Henry Seymour, S. E. Woodworth,
David Spalding, Edward F. Underhill,
William G. Barker, George W. Pryor,
Elias J. Doty, Joel Bunker,
John Jones, Isaac Van Tassel,
William S. Dell, Thomas Dell,
James Mott, E. W. Capron,
William Burroughs, Stephen Shear,
Robert Smalldridge Henry Hatley,
Jacob Matthews, Azaliah Schooley.

Many persons signed the Declaration at Rochester, among them Daniel
Anthony, Lucy Read Anthony, Mary S. Anthony, the officers of the
Convention, and others.

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CHAPTER VI.

OHIO.

_Salem Convention_, _April 19, 20, 1850_.

LETTER FROM ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.

SENECA FALLS, N. Y., _April 7_.

DEAR MARIANA:--How rejoiced I am to hear that the women of Ohio have
called a Convention preparatory to the remodeling of their State
Constitution. The remodeling of a Constitution, in the nineteenth
century, speaks of progress, of greater freedom, and of more enlarged
views of human rights and duties. It is fitting that, at such a time,
woman, who has so long been the victim of ignorance and injustice,
should at length throw off the trammels of a false education, stand
upright, and with dignity and earnestness manifest a deep and serious
interest in the laws which are to govern her and her country. It needs
no argument to teach woman that she is interested in the laws which
govern her. Suffering has taught her this already. It is important now
that a change is proposed, that she speak, and loudly too. Having
decided to petition for a redress of grievances, the question is, _for
what shall you first petition?_ For the exercise of your right to the
elective franch