in carrying out those principles of
liberty and equality upon which our government is based.

We design to advertise our headquarters to the world, and old
Carpenter Hall, if used by us, would become more widely
celebrated as the birth-place of liberty. Our work in it would
cause it to be more than ever held in reverence by future ages,
and pilgrimages by men and women would be made to it as to
another Mecca shrine.

We propose to place a person in charge, with pamphlets, speeches,
tracts, etc., and to hold public meetings for the enunciation of
our principles and the furtherance of our demands. Hoping you
will grant this request,

I am respectfully yours, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE,
_President of the National Woman Suffrage Association._

Two months afterward, the following reply was received:

HALL, CARPENTER COURT, 322 Chestnut St.,}
PHILADELPHIA, April 24, 1876.}

MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, _President of the Woman Suffrage
Association_:

Your communication asking permission to occupy Carpenter Hall for
your convention was duly received, and presented to the company
at a stated meeting held the 16th instant, when on motion it was
unanimously resolved to postpone the subject indefinitely.

[Extract of minutes]. GEORGE WATSON, _Secretary_.

It was a matter of no moment to those men that women were soon to
assemble in Philadelphia, whose love of liberty was as deep, whose
patriotism was as pure as that of the fathers who met within its
walls in 1774, and whose deliberations had given that hall its
historic interest.

In the midst of these preparations the usual May anniversary was
held:

CALL FOR THE MAY ANNIVERSARY, 1876.--The National Woman Suffrage
Association will hold its Ninth Annual Convention in Masonic
Hall, New York, corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street,
May 10, 11, 1876.

This convention occuring in the centennial year of the republic,
will be a most important one. The underlying principles of
government will this year be discussed as never before; both
foreigners and citizens will query as to how closely this country
has lived up to its own principles. The long-debated question as
to the source of the governing power was answered a century