ependence in a manner befitting the occasion and
the character of our city. It is earnestly desired that
every organization, of whatever nature, in Toledo, be
represented at this meeting. We would, therefore, ask of you
that you lay the matter before your organization at its next
regular meeting, or in case it shall hold no meeting before
the 17th, that you appear as a representative yourself.

GUIDO MARX, _Chairman_.

D. R. LOCKE, JAMES H. EMORY, _Secretaries_.

This was laid before the association at a meeting which occurred
the same afternoon, and by the order of the society the
invitation therein conveyed was replied to in season to be read
at the meeting at White's Hall, April 17:

TOLEDO, Ohio, April 15, 1876.

_Hon. Guido Marx, Messrs. D. R. Locke and James H. Emory_:

GENTLEMEN: The printed circular, with your names attached,
inclosed to my address as president of the Toledo Woman
Suffrage Association, inviting that body to send a
representative to a meeting to be held at White's Hall,
Monday evening, April 17, to elect an executive committee
and make other arrangements for a celebration by Toledo of
the one-hundredth anniversary of American independence, was
received just in time to lay before the meeting held April
10. It was there decided that while the members of the
association fully appreciate the generosity of the men of
Toledo, and feel grateful for the implied recognition of
their citizenship, yet they manifestly have no centennial to
celebrate, as the government still holds them in a condition
of political serfdom, denying them the greatest right of
citizenship--representation.

Conscious, however, of the great results which the nation's
hundred years have achieved in building up a great people,
we are aware that you, as American men, have cause for
rejoicing, and we bid you God-speed in all efforts which you
may make in the approaching celebration. In an equal degree
we feel it inconsistent, as a disfranchised class, to unite
with you in the celebration of that liberty which is the
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