s. Mendenhall were inaugurated the great
sanitary fairs[285] there, and by her untiring energy and that of
the ladies who labored with her, many of our brave soldiers were
restored to health. Mrs. Annie L. Quinby writes:

In the autumn of 1867 Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony made a
lecturing tour through Ohio and roused popular thought on the
question of suffrage. March 28, 1868, the Cincinnati Equal Rights
Association[286] was formed, auxiliary to the National Society,
of which Lucretia Mott was president. April 7, 1869, Mrs. Ryder
called the attention of the meeting to a resolution offered by
Mr. Gordon in the State legislature, to amend the constitution so
as to strike out the word male, proposing that at the October
election, "in all precincts in the State, there shall be a
separate poll, at which all white women over 21 years of age
shall be permitted to vote, and if the votes cast be a majority
of all the white women, the constitution shall be amended." Mrs.
Ryder seemed to think the proposition a very fair one, or
intended by the mover to give the women, if they wanted to vote,
the opportunity of saying so on this amendment to the
constitution. Mrs. Blangy also concurred in this view of the
subject. Mrs. Quinby expressed her indignation at the
proposition, saying she believed its passage by the legislature
would be detrimental to the cause, both on account of its
provisions and the mode of accomplishing the object of the
resolution. As it stood, it could but fail, as women were not
prepared for it at the present time, and the proposition was not
that the majority of votes cast should settle the question, but
that the number cast in favor of it should be a majority of all
the women in the State 21 years of age. She therefore thought we
should express our decided disapproval of this amendment. Mrs.
Leavitt also declared her opposition to this resolution,
believing it to have been offered for the sole purpose of
stalling the woman suffrage movement for years to come. She
thought this association should express its decided opposition to
this resolution. Mrs. Butterwood and others followed in the same
strain, and it was finally agreed unanimously that the
corresponding secretary be instructed to write to the mover of
the resolution, expressing disappro