cess. Although not
identified with us as an agent, yet we had her active
co-operation during the campaign. Her editorial connection with
the press, and her lectures on the West India Islands, gave her
abundant opportunity, which she did not fail to embrace, of
circulating petitions and advocating the cause to which she has
so largely given her energies.

Besides the General Agent, whose time was divided between
correspondence, lecturing, and the general details of the
movement, there were other and most efficient workers, especially
in canvassing for signatures. We are indebted to Mrs. Anne Ryder,
of Cincinnati, for much labor in this direction; and also to
Mrs. Howard, of Columbus for similar service. Miss Olympia Brown,
a graduate of Antioch College, canvassed several towns most
successfully--adding thousands of names to the lists heretofore
obtained. Equally zealous were women, and men also, in various
sections of the State. By means of this hearty co-operation, both
branches of the Legislature were flooded with Woman's Rights
petitions during the first part of the session--a thousand and
even two thousand names were presented at a time.

Our main object this year, as heretofore, has been to secure
personal property and parental rights, never ignoring, however,
the right to legislate for ourselves. We were fortunate in the
commencement in enlisting some of the leading influences of the
State in favor of the movement. Persons occupying the highest
social and political position, very fully endorsed our claims to
legal equality, and rendered valuable aid by public approval of
the same. We took measures at an early period to obtain the
assistance of the press; and by means of this auxiliary our work
has been more fully recognized, and more generally appreciated
than it could otherwise have been. Without exception, the leading
journals of the State have treated our cause with consideration,
and generously commended the efforts of its agents.

So numerous were the petitions, and so largely did they represent
the best constituency of the State, that the committees in whose
hands they were placed, felt that by all just parliamentary
usage, they were entitled to a candid consideration. Accordingly
they invited several of us who had been prom