ions were held annually for several years, the
friends of woman suffrage being thoroughly organized; J. Elizabeth
Jones was made General Agent. In her report of May 16th, 1861, she
says:

And through the earnest efforts of Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Gage, Mrs.
Wilson, Mrs. Tilden, and many others, the Legislature was
petitioned from year to year for a redress of legal and political
wrongs. At a later period, the indefatigable exertions of Mrs.
Adeline T. Swift sustained the interest and the agitation in such
portions of the State as she could reach. As the fruit of her
labor, many thousands of names, pleading for equality, have been
presented to the General Assembly, which labor has been continued
to the present time.

Our last effort, of which I am now more particularly to speak,
was commenced early in the season, by extensive correspondence to
enlist sympathy and aid in behalf of petitions. As soon as we
could get the public ear, several lecturing agents were secured,
and they did most efficient service, both with tongue and with
pen. One of these was Mrs. C. I. H. Nichols, of Kansas, formerly
of Vermont; and perhaps no person was ever better qualified than
she. Ever ready and ever faithful, in public and in private, and
ever capable, too, whether discussing the condition of woman with
the best informed members of the legal profession, or striving at
the fireside of some indolent and ignorant sister, over whose
best energies "death is creeping like an untimely frost," to
waken in her heart a desire for that which is truly noble and
good.

Of another of our agents--Mrs. Cutler, of Illinois--equally as
much can be said of her qualifications and her efficiency. Having
been very widely acquainted with the sorrowful experiences of
women, both abroad and in our own country, which have been caused
by their inferior position, and by legal disabilities; and
lamenting, too, as only great and elevated natures can, the utter
wreck of true, noble womanhood in the higher circles of society,
a necessity is thus laid upon her to do all in her power to lift
both classes into a freer, better life.

Mrs. Frances D. Gage, of Ohio, deeply interested herself in this
question in the beginning, and has never failed in faithful
testimony and timely word, to promote its suc