n, W. D. Morgan, J. W. Morrison, E.
Morrison, Myton, McCabe, McClaran, Neill, Neeley, Nelson, Nesbit,
Nicholson, Parkinson, Powell, Romig, Schwartz, Short, Sinex,
Slocum, J. Smith, Sneeringer, Snodgrass, Stees, Sterett, Stewart,
Stubbs, Sweeney, Trant, Vanderslice, Vaughn, Vogdes, Wayne and
Ziegler--78.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

NEW JERSEY.

Women Voted in the Early Days--Deprived of the Right by
Legislative Enactment in 1807--Women Demand the Restoration of
Their Rights in 1868--At the Polls in Vineland and Roseville
Park--Lucy Stone Agitates the Question--State Suffrage Society
Organized in 1867--Conventions--A Memorial to the
Legislature--Mary F. Davis--Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford--Political
Science Club--Mrs. Cornelia C. Hussey--Orange Club, 1870--July 4,
1874, Mrs. Devereux Blake Gives the Oration--Dr. Elizabeth
Blackwell's Letter--The Laws of New Jersey in Regard to Property
and Divorce--Constitutional Commission, 1873--Trial of Rev. Isaac
M. See--Women Preaching in His Pulpit--The Case Appealed--Mrs.
Jones, Jailoress--Legislative Hearings.

New Jersey was the only State that, in adopting her first
constitution, recognized woman's right to suffrage which she had
exercised during the colonial days, and from time immemorial in the
mother country. The fact that she was deprived of this right from
1807 to 1840 by a legislative enactment, while the constitution
secured it,[274] proves that the power of the legislature, composed
of representatives from the people, was considered at that early
day to be above the State constitution. If, then, the legislature
could abridge the suffrage, it must have the power to extend it,
and all the women of this State should demand is an act of the
legislature. They need not wait for the slow process of a
constitutional amendment submitted to the popular vote. In 1868, in
harmony with a general movement in many other States, the women of
New Jersey began to demand the restoration of their ancient rights.
The following is from _The Revolution_ of November 19, 1868,
written by Elizabeth A. Kingsbury:

VINELAND, N. J., Nov. 5, 1868.

At a meeting of women, held the week before election, a unanimous
vote was taken that we would go to the polls. John Gage, chairman
of the Woman Suffrage Association of Vineland, called a meeting,
and though the day was an inclement one, there