refused. The county suffrage society has had an untiring leader
in Mrs. Goodrich, and on all occasions she has nerved the weak
and encouraged the timid by her example of unflinching devotion.
The following extracts from a letter written by the lady will
show how effective her work has been:

In 1872, our society was invited to take part in the Fourth
of July celebration, which we did, and had the handsomest
carriages and more of them than any other society in the
procession. We paid our own expenses, although the city had
made an appropriation for the celebration. In 1876 we were
not invited to take part in the festivities, but some of us
felt that on such a day, our centennial anniversary, we
should not be ignored. Accordingly I started out to see what
could be done, but finding some of our most active friends
ill and others absent from home, I decided to do what I
could alone. I had mottoes from the grand declarations of
the Fathers painted and put on my house, which the
procession would pass on two sides.

Some of our most prominent ladies seeing that I was
determined to make a manifestation, drove with me in the
procession, our carriage and horses decorated with flags,
the ladies wearing sashes of red, white and blue, and
bearing banners with mottoes and evergreens. A little
daughter of Mrs. Clara Foltz, the lawyer, dressed in red,
white and blue, was seated in the center of the carriage,
carrying a white banner with silver fringe, a small flag at
the top with a silver star above that, with streamers of
red, white and blue floating from it, and in the center, in
letters large enough to be seen some distance, the one word
"Hope." On my flag the motto was: "We are Taxed without
being Represented"; Mrs. Maria H. Weldon's, "We are the
disfranchised Class"; Mrs. Marion Hooker's, "The Class
entitled to respectful Consideration"; and Miss Hannah
Millard's, "We are governed without our Consent." On the
front of my house in large letters was the motto: "Taxation
without Representation is Tyranny as much in 1876, as it was
in 1776"; on the other side was, "We are Denied the Ballot,