gh the year, circulating petitions to the
legislature, and, in other ways, constantly endeavoring to
revolutionize the entire sentiment of the State on the question
of woman suffrage, still has less progress to report than its
friends would have desired. Our last annual meeting, as usual,
drew together a large audience. Among our speakers from abroad
was William Lloyd Garrison, who, in a speech of almost
anti-slavery force and fervor, appeared to send conviction into
many minds. Our home speakers included a clergyman of Providence
and one of our ablest lawyers, and an ex-legislator who had never
stood on our platform before.

As usual, our petitions went into the legislature. They were
referred to the Judiciary Committee, before whom we had a
hearing, at which three Providence lawyers gave us their
unqualified support and earnest advocacy. One of these men set
forth in the strongest light the injustice of our laws in regard
to the property of married women and their non-ownership of their
minor children. The committee made no report to the legislature,
and so our petitions lie over until the next session, when we
hope for some evidence of progress. In the meantime we intend to
very much increase their number. For many years we have been
begging of our law-makers to permit women to share in the
management of the penal, correctional and charitable institutions
of the State; we have, however, only succeeded in obtaining an
advisory board of women, which has been in operation for the last
six years.

Last spring a majority of these women, having become weary of the
service in which they had no power to decide that any improvement
should be made in the management of these institutions, resigned
their positions on this board, some of them giving through the
press their reasons therefor. When the time came for making the
new appointments for the year, the governor earnestly urged
these women to permit him to appoint them, voluntarily pledging
himself to recommend at the opening of the next session of the
legislature, that a bill should be passed providing for the
appointment of women on the boards of management of all these
prisons and reformatories, with the same power and authority with
which the men are invested, who now alone decide all qu