--denied the right to vote, denied
the right to practice in the Supreme Court, denied jury trial--I
feel the degradation of sex more bitterly than I did on that July
19, 1848, and never more than in listening to your speech in
Philadelphia on the Fourth of July, our nation's centennial
birthday, remembering that neither years nor wisdom, brave words
nor noble deeds, could secure political honor or call forth
national homage for women. Let it be remembered by our daughters
in future generations that Lucretia Mott, in the eighty-fourth
year of her age, asked permission, as the representative woman of
this great movement for the enfranchisement of her sex, to
present at the centennial celebration of our national liberties,
Woman's Declaration of Rights, and was refused! This was the
"respectful consideration" vouchsafed American women at the close
of the first century of our national life.

May we now safely prophesy justice, liberty, equality for our
daughters ere another centennial birthday shall dawn upon us!

Sincerely yours, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.

DETROIT, July 17, 1876.

_To Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ann McClintock
and daughters, Amy Post, and all associated with them and myself
in the first Woman's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, N.
Y., July 19, 1848, as well as to our later and present
associates, Greeting:_

Not able to be with you in your celebration of the nineteenth, I
will yet give evidence that I prize your remembrance of our first
assemblage and of our earliest work. That is, and will ever be as
the present is a memorable year; and may this be memorable too
for the same reason, a brave step in advance for human freedom. I
would that it could be a conclusive step in legislation for the
political freedom of the women of the nation. For it is only in
harmony with reason and experience to predict that the men as
well as the women of the near future will rejoice if this
centennial year is thus marked and glorified by so grand a deed.

We may well congratulate each other and have satisfaction in
knowing that we have changed the public sentiment and the laws of
many States by our advocacy and labors. We also know that while
helping the gr