ponsibilities which the coming years might impose.
Her dear voice is almost silent now, still she lingers as if to
catch some faint glimpse of hoped-for results, ere she drops this
mortal coil.
Very truly yours,
MARY T. CORNER.
MASSILON CONVENTION.
On May 27, 1852, another State Convention was held in Massilon. We
give the following brief notice from the _New York Tribune_:
The third Woman's Rights Convention of Ohio has just closed its
session. It was held in the Baptist church, in this place, and
was numerously attended, there being a fair representation of
men, as well as women; for though the object of these, and
similar meetings, is to secure woman her rights, as an equal
member of the human family, neither speaking nor membership was
here confined to the one sex, but _all_ who had sentiments to
utter in reference to the object of the Convention--whether for
or against it--were invited to speak with freedom, and those who
wished to aid the movement to sit as members, without distinction
of sex. All honorable classes were represented, from the
so-called highest to the so-called lowest--the seamstress who
works for twenty-five cents a day; the daughters of the farmer,
fresh from the dairy and the kitchen; the wives of the laborer,
the physician, the lawyer, and the banker, the legislator, and
the minister, were all there--all interested in one common cause,
and desirous that every right God gave to woman should be fully
recognized by the laws and usages of society, that every faculty
he has bestowed upon her should have ample room for its proper
development. Is this asking too much? And yet this is the sum and
substance of the Woman's Rights Reform--a movement which fools
ridicule, and find easier to sneer at than meet with argument.
Before they separated they organized "The Ohio Woman's Rights
Association," and chose Hannah Tracy Cutler for President.
The first annual meeting of this Association was held at Ravenna, May
25th and 26th, 1853. In the absence of the President, Mrs. Caroline M.
Severance presided. The speakers were Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, Mrs.
Lawrence, Emma R. Coe, Josephine S. Griffing, Martha J. Tilden, and
many others. Emily Robinson presented an able and encouraging report
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