ughout the State, and
rolling up petitions asking that the constitution be so amended as
to secure to women the right to vote. The following appeal was
issued by this association:

_To the Editor of the Post:_

SIR: There is no political question now before the people of this
commonwealth more important than the consideration of the changes
to be made in our constitution. The citizens of the State, by an
enormous majority of votes, have re-claimed the sovereign powers
of government, and evinced a determination to re-form the
fundamental law, the constitution of this State, in the interest
of a government "of the people, by the people, and for the
people." In this new adaptation of old rules of government to the
advanced ideas of the age, it seems to us fitting and opportune
that woman in her new status as a citizen of the United States
(under the fourteenth amendment of the constitution), should be
allowed the exercise of rights which have been withheld under old
rules of action. Therefore we respectfully ask you to give this,
with our appeal, an insertion in your paper, and to continue the
appeal until further notice. And we ask all the friends of woman
suffrage to aid our association in placing this appeal in each
paper of our city, as well as of the neighboring towns.

"There is no distinction in citizenship as has been determined by
the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United
States. The citizens of Pennsylvania have decided on a revision
of the constitution of the commonwealth. The power of revision is
to be delegated by the citizens of the commonwealth to a
convention. The foundation of free government is based on the
consent of the governed. Therefore, the Citizens' Suffrage
Association of Pennsylvania appeals to the sense of right and
justice in the hearts of the citizens of this State, to aid in
securing to every citizen, irrespective of sex, an equal voice in
the selection of delegates, and an equal right, if elected
thereto, to a seat in said constitutional convention."

WM. MORRIS DAVIS, _Controller_.

Mr. Robert Purvis, at the request of the Citizens' Suffrage
Association of Philadelphia, waited upon Mrs. President Hayes and
presented to her an address adopted by that society. Mr. Purvis
wrote:

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