we earnestly and respectfully petition Congress
that in passing an enabling act or acts for the admission of the
other Territories there be incorporated a clause allowing women
to vote for delegates to their constitutional conventions, and at
the election for the adoption of the constitution, in every one
where the Legislature has granted woman suffrage and such law has
not been repealed by a subsequent Legislature.

WHEREAS, In the year 1873 our leader, Susan B. Anthony, was
deprived of the right of trial by jury, by a Judge of the Supreme
Court of the United States, simply because she was a woman, it is
the duty of all women to resent the insult thus offered to
womanhood and demand of the men of this closing century of
constitutional government such condemnation of this infamous
decision of Judge Ward Hunt[74] as shall teach the coming
generation of voters that the welfare of the republic demands
that women be protected equally with men in the exercise of
citizenship; and,

WHEREAS, In the great Centennial Celebration of 1876 women were
denied all participation in the public proceedings commemorating
the birth of the Declaration of Independence, though they sought
earnestly and respectfully to declare their sentiments of loyalty
to the great principles of liberty and responsibility there
enunciated, they should now demand official recognition by
Congress and the State Legislature on all the Boards of
Commissioners which, at the public expense, are to initiate and
carry out the august ceremonials of the coming Constitutional
Celebration in New York in April, 1889, to the end that taxation
without representation shall no longer be acknowledged a just and
constitutional policy in this government nominally of the
_people_, therefore,

_Resolved_, That a committee be appointed by the National W. S.
A. to memorialize Congress on this subject, and to take such
other action as shall bring before the enlightened manhood of our
country their duty of chivalry no less than justice in this
important matter.[75]

WHEREAS, The question of woman's enfranchisement is fundamental
and of paramount importance; therefore,

_Resolved_, That, while the National Woman Suffrage Association
welcomes and claims the support of persons of all parties and