ilance in securing senators and representatives in the General
Assembly, favorable to woman suffrage. We propose the coming
year:

_First_--To petition congress in behalf of the following
amendment to our national constitution, viz.:

ARTICLE XVI. Section 1--The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of sex. Section
2--Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

_Second_--To secure a hearing and action upon the petitions
referred from the last Assembly, for such amendment to our State
constitution as shall extend general suffrage to women.

_Third_--To petition the General Assembly for the necessary
legislation to secure school suffrage to women.[177]

The arguments in the various hearings before the legislature with
the majority and minority reports, are the same as many already
published, in fact nothing new can be said on the question. As none
of the women in this State, by trying to vote, or resisting
taxation, have tested the justice of their laws, they have no
supreme-court decisions to record.

Honorable mention should be made of Dr. William F. Channing, who
has stood for many years in Providence the noblest representative
of liberal thought. He is a worthy son of that great leader of
reform in New England, Rev. William Ellery Channing. In him the
advocates of woman's rights have always found a steadfast friend.
He sees that this is the fundamental reform; that it is the key to
the problems of labor, temperance, social purity and the
cooeperative home. Those who have had the good fortune of a personal
acquaintance with Dr. Channing have felt the sense of dignity and
self-respect that the delicate courtesy and sincere reference of a
noble man must always give to woman.

Though Mrs. Channing has not been an active participant in the
popular reforms, having led a rather retired life, yet her
sympathies have been with her husband in all his endeavors to
benefit mankind. She has given the influence of her name to the
suffrage movement, and extended the most generous hospitalities to
the speakers at the annual conventions. Their charming daughters,
Mary and Grace, fully respond to the humanitarian sentiments of
their parents, constituting a happy family united in life's
purposes and ambitions.