year two quarterly meetings were held--one at Brooklyn
in February, and one at Buffalo in May. At the Brooklyn meeting the
constitution was somewhat modified, and the name changed to the present
one--"The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York."

The first legislative work of the society was the memorializing of
President Grant and Governor Dix. This memorial was prepared by Mrs. B.
C. Rude, of Wellsville, Miss M. E. Armstrong, of Fayetteville, and Mrs.
M. B. O'Donnell, of Lowville.

FIRST MEMORIAL.

We, temperance women of the State of New York, in convention at
Syracuse, deeply sensible that intemperance is a prevailing and
corrupting power for evil, affecting the happiness and well-being of
multitudes of all classes and conditions impotent to protect
themselves from its influences, but citizens, all claiming the
natural and lawful protection of our rulers and executors of our
laws; that its pernicious influence in the home, by subverting every
principle of right, is in the aggregate corrupting the entire
national body, subverting the intent of our political institutions;
and whereas petitioning is our only resort, we have petitioned our
God, the Infinite Ruler, in your behalf, and now petition your
excellency, in behalf of the temperance cause, that you appoint
to positions in the civil service none but total abstinence men.
All of which we most respectfully submit, and for which your
petitioners will ever pray.

The memorial to Governor Dix was presented directly by the State League;
that to President Grant was referred to the national society soon to be
formed.

Twenty-two delegates were appointed to attend the convention called at
Cleveland, Ohio, November 18, 19, and 20, 1874, for the purpose of
organizing a national society. The State of New York was honored in this
convention by the appointment of Mrs. Mary T. Burt as secretary of the
organizing convention, and by the election of Mrs. Mary C. Johnson as
recording secretary, and Mrs. Dr. Kenyon as one of the vice-presidents
for the first year.

The following resolutions were adopted at the first meeting, and must
have been drafted with a prophet's ken, as they have been largely
fulfilled in the years that have passed:

RESOLUTIONS.

WHEREAS, Intemperance has become so widespread, permeating every class
and condition of society, even from the sacred desk to the hov