, One-half of the citizens of this nation, after a century
of boasted liberty, are still political slaves; therefore,

_Resolved_, That we protest against calling the present
centennial celebration a celebration of the independence of the
people of the United States.

_Resolved_, That we meet in our respective towns and districts on
the Fourth of July, 1876, and declare ourselves no longer bound
to obey laws in whose making we have had no voice, and, in
presence of the assembled nations of the world gathered on this
soil to celebrate our nation's centennial, demand justice for the
women of this land.

WHEREAS, The men of this nation have established for men of all
nations, races and color, on this soil, at the cost of countless
lives, the proposition (in the language of Frederick Douglass)
"that a man's head is his head, his body is his body, his feet
are his feet"; therefore,

_Resolved_, That justice, equity and chivalry demand that man at
once establish for his wife and mother the corresponding
proposition, that a woman's head is her head, her body is her
body, her feet are her feet, and that all ownership and mastery
over her person, property, conscience, and liberty of speech and
action, are in violation of the supreme law of the land.

_Resolved_, That we rejoice in the resistance of Julia and Abby
Smith, Abby Kelly Foster, Sarah E. Wall and many more resolute
women in various parts of the country, to taxation without
representation.

_Resolved_, That the thanks of the National Woman Suffrage
Association are hereby tendered to Hon. A. A. Sargent, of
California, for his earnest words in behalf of woman suffrage on
the floor of the United States Senate, Jan. 25, 1876; and to Hon.
N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts, for his appeal in behalf of the
centennial woman suffrage memorial in the United States House of
Representatives, March 31, 1876.

_Resolved_, That the repeated attempts to license the social evil
are a practical confession of the weakness, profligacy and
general unfitness of men to legislate for women, and should be
regarded with alarm as a proof that their firesides and liberties
are in constant peril while men alone make and execute the laws
of this country.

WHEREAS, There are 7,000 more women than men in