s importance in New Hampshire, as this is the center
of female suffrage sentiment in this State, and the women
are determined to win here if possible.

In the opening convention of November 5, 1879, Mrs. White, the
president, made the following address:

_Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends of the N. H. Woman Suffrage
Association_: We hold the seventh meeting of this association
under circumstances that mark an epoch in the progress of equal
rights, irrespective of sex, in this State. After more than a
decade of agitation, and petitioning of our legislature, women
hold in their hand the ballot on one important matter. Let us
exchange congratulations on this occasion, that so much has been
gained toward the final triumph of our cause.

You will remember when this association was last in session,
July, 1878, that the bill giving the women of New Hampshire the
right to vote on the public-school questions, was pending in our
legislature. At our first hearing before that body, we hardly
dared anticipate the passage of the bill during that session. But
agitation, vigilance and perseverance ever bring their sure
reward in the end, therefore we continued to press our claim, and
soon learned to our great satisfaction that our allies in behalf
of this bill, were the very _cream_ of our legislature. We at
once took courage, and as day after day we went up to the
state-house, with friends who plead for it before the committee,
who kindly gave us several hearings; we saw the gradual growth of
interest in behalf of this bill soon ripen into a final decision
causing it to pass; thereby enacting a law, to which our worthy
governor, B. F. Prescott, immediately gave his willing signature,
securing to the women of this State the high privilege many of
them gladly exercised last spring. Many feared this law would be
repealed; but to show with what favor it has been received, we
have only to refer to the legislature of the present year, which
passed an additional law, giving to women not only the right to
vote for and serve on school boards, but also the power to serve
as moderator or clerk in school meetings, for which the former
law did not provide. This, it would seem must remove all fears of
a repeal.

Petitions asking municipal suffrage for women, were sen