omen by a constitutional
amendment. Considering the many long days and weeks consumed in
both houses in discussing the political rights of the colored
male citizens, there is an obvious propriety in giving full and
fair consideration to the protection of the rights of wives,
mothers and daughters.--[_The National Republican_, January 22,
1877.

The National Association held its anniversary in Masonic Temple,
New York, May 24, 1877. Isabella Beecher Hooker, vice-president for
Connecticut, called the meeting to order and invited Rev. Olympia
Brown to lead in prayer. Mrs. Gage made the annual report of the
executive committee. Dr. Clemence S. Lozier of New York was elected
president for the coming year. Pledges were made to roll up
petitions with renewed energy; and resolutions were duly
discussed[22] and adopted:

WHEREAS, Such minor matters as declaring peace and war, the
coining of money, the imposition of tariff, and the control of
the postal service, are forbidden the respective States; and
whereas, upon the framing of the constitution, it was wisely
held that these property rights would be unsafe under the
control of thirteen varying deliberative bodies; and whereas, by
a curious anomaly, power over suffrage, the basis and
corner-stone of the nation, is held to be under control of the
respective States; and

WHEREAS, the experience of a century has shown that the personal
right of self-government inhering in each individual, is wholly
insecure under the control of thirty-eight varying deliberative
bodies; and

WHEREAS, the right of self-government by the use of the ballot
inheres in the citizen of the United States; therefore,

_Resolved_, That it is the immediate and most important duty of
the government to secure this right on a national basis to all
citizens, independent of sex.

_Resolved_, That the right of suffrage underlies all other
rights, and that in working to secure it women are doing the best
temperance, moral reform, educational, and religious work of the
age.

_Resolved_, That we solemnly protest against the recent memorial
to congress, from Utah, asking the disfranchisement of the women
of that territory, and that we ask of congress that this request,
made in violation of the spirit of our institutions, be not
granted.

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