NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARLORS, }
1,431 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. }
The National Woman Suffrage Association has established its
centennial headquarters in Philadelphia, at 1,431 Chestnut
street. The parlors, in charge of the officers of the
association, are devoted to the special work of the year,
pertaining to the centennial celebration and the political party
conventions; also to calls, receptions, conversazioni, etc. On
the table a centennial autograph book receives the names of
visitors. Friends at a distance, both men and women, who cannot
call, are invited to send their names, with date and residence,
accompanied by a short expressive sentiment and a contribution
toward expenses. In the rooms are books, papers, reports and
decisions, speeches, tracts, and photographs of distinguished
women; also mottoes and pictures expressive of woman's
condition. In addition to the parlor gatherings, meetings and
conventions will be held during the season in various halls and
churches throughout the city.
On July Fourth, while the men of this nation and the world are
rejoicing that "All men are free and equal" in the United States,
a declaration of rights for women will be issued from these
headquarters, and a protest against calling this centennial a
celebration of the independence of the people, while one-half are
still political slaves.
Let the women of the whole land, on that day, in meetings, in
parlors, in kitchens, wherever they may be, unite with us in this
declaration and protest. And, immediately thereafter, send full
reports, in manuscript or print, of their resolutions, speeches
and action, for record in our centennial book, that the world may
see that the women of 1876 know and feel their political
degradation no less than did the men of 1776.
The first woman's rights convention the world ever knew, called
by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, met at Seneca Falls,
N. Y., July 19, 20, 1848. In commemoration of the twenty-eighth
anniversary of that event, the National Woman Suffrage
Association will hold in ---- hall, Philadelphia, July 19, 20, of
the present year, a grand mass convention, in which eminent
reformers from the new and old world will take
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