New York have been before the
legislature for consideration, and the trivial concessions of
justice thus far wrung from our rulers bear no proportion to the
prolonged labors we have gone through to achieve them.

FOOTNOTES:

[200] It has recently been ascertained that the first woman's
rights petition sent to the New York State legislature was by Miss
Mary Ayers, in 1834, for a change in the property laws. It was ten
or fifteen feet long when unrolled, and is still buried in the
vaults of the capitol at Albany.

[201] Many years afterwards, lecturing in Texas, I met a party of
ladies from Georgia, thoroughly awake on all questions relating to
women. Finding ourselves quite in accord, I said, "how did you get
those ideas in Georgia?" "Why," said one, "some of our friends
attended a woman's convention at Saratoga, and told us what was
said there, and gave us several tracts on all phases of the
question, which were the chief topics of discussion among us long
after." Southern women have suffered so many evils growing out of
the system of slavery that they readily learn the lessons of
freedom.--[E. C. S.

[202] The following were elected officers of the association.
_President_, Martha C. Wright, Auburn. _Vice-Presidents_, Celia
Burleigh, Brooklyn; Rachel S. Martin, Albany; Lydia A. Strowbridge,
Cortland; Jennie White, Syracuse; Eliza W. Osborn, Auburn; Sarah G.
Love, Ithaca; W. S. V. Rosa, Watertown; Mary M. R. Parks, Utica;
Amy Post, Rochester; Candace S. Brockett, Brockett's Bridge; Ida
Greeley, Chappaqua; Mary Hunt, Waterloo. _Secretary_, Matilda
Joslyn Gage, Fayetteville. _Executive Committee_, Lucy A. Brand,
Emeline A. Morgan, Mrs. H. Stewart, Samuel J. May, Rhoda Price, all
of Syracuse. _Advisory Counsel_, for First Judicial District, Susan
B. Anthony, New York; Second, Sarah Schram, Newburgh; Third, Sarah
H. Hallock, Milton; Fourth, Caroline Mowry Holmes, Greenwich;
Fifth, Ann T. Randall, Oswego; Sixth, Mrs. Professor Sprague,
Ithaca, Seventh, Harriet N. Austin, Dansville; Eighth, Helen P.
Jenkins, Buffalo.

[203] The speakers were Celia Burleigh, Susan B. Anthony, Charlotte
B. Wilbour, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Mrs. Bedortha, of Saratoga, Mrs.
Strowbridge, of Cortland, Mrs. Norton, J. N. Holmes, esq., Judge
McKean, Rev. Mr. Angier, Hon. Wm. Hay. See Vol. II., page 402, for
Mrs. Burleigh's letter on this Saratoga convention.

[204] The Board of Trustees of Mt. Vernon, Westchester county,
called a meeting of