d with flowers and filled with
ladies, Dr. Lozier presiding. Miss Anthony was the speaker of the
evening, and made a most effective address; Helen Potter gave a
recitation; Hannah M'L. Shepherd read letters of sympathy; Mrs.
Blake made a short closing address, and presented a series of
resolutions, couched in precisely the same language as that adopted
by our ancestors in protesting against taxation without
representation:

_Resolved_, That as an expression of the sentiments of the
tax-paying women of New York, we reiterate, as applied to
ourselves, the declaration contained in the bill of rights put
forth by our ancestors 100 years ago: _First_--That the women of
the country are entitled to equal rights and privileges with the
men; _Second_--That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of
a people, and the undoubted right of all men and women, that no
taxes be imposed on them but by their own consent, given in
person or by their representatives; _Third_--That the only
representatives of these women are persons chosen by themselves,
and that no taxes ever have been or can be constitutionally
imposed upon them but by legislatures composed of persons so
chosen.

The report of the State assessors[226] of 1883 brought forcibly to
view the injustice done in taxing non-voters. At their meeting with
the supervisors of Onondaga county, Mr. Pope of Fabius said: "Mrs.
Andrews is assessed too much." Mr. Hadley replied: "Well, Mr.
Briggs says that is the way all the women are assessed." Mr. Briggs
responded: "Yes, that is the way we find the assessors treat the
women; they can't vote, you know! I am in favor of letting the
women vote now."

Two women in the village of Batavia were assessed for more personal
property than the entire assessment of like property, exclusive of
corporations, in the city of Rochester with a population of 70,000!
While declaring they had found very little personal property
assessed, Mr. Fowler said: "We found some cases where town
assessors had taxed the personal property of women, and one case
of a ward who was assessed to full value, while upon the guardian's
property there was no assessment at all." This report not only
proved a good woman suffrage document, but the work done by the
State assessors, Messrs. Hadley, Briggs and Fowler, convinced them
personally of woman's need of the ballot for the protection of her
property.

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