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History of Woman Suffrage.
Sophronie Taylor, Margaret Jenkins
Cynthia Davis, Cynthia Fuller,
Mary Martin, Eliza Martin,
P. A. Culvert, Maria E. Wilbur,
Susan R. Doty, Elizabeth D. Smith,
Rebecca Race, Caroline Barker,
Sarah A. Mosher, Ann Porter,
Mary E. Vail, Experience Gibbs,
Lucy Spalding, Antoinette F. Segur,
Lavinia Latham, Hannah J. Latham,
Sarah Smith, Sarah Sisson.

The following are the names of the gentlemen present in favor of the movement:

Richard P. Hunt, Charles L. Hoskins,
Samuel D. Tilman, Thomas McClintock,
Justin Williams, Saron Phillips,
Elisha Foote, Jacob Chamberlain,
Frederick Douglass, Jonathan Metcalf,
Henry W. Seymour, Nathan J. Milliken,
Henry Seymour, S. E. Woodworth,
David Spalding, Edward F. Underhill,
William G. Barker, George W. Pryor,
Elias J. Doty, Joel Bunker,
John Jones, Isaac Van Tassel,
William S. Dell, Thomas Dell,
James Mott, E. W. Capron,
William Burroughs, Stephen Shear,
Robert Smalldridge Henry Hatley,
Jacob Matthews, Azaliah Schooley.
Many persons signed the Declaration at Rochester, among them Daniel Anthony, Lucy Read Anthony, Mary S. Anthony, the officers of the Convention, and others.

CHAPTER VI.

OHIO.

Salem Convention, April 19, 20, 1850.

Letter From Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Seneca Falls, N. Y., April 7.

Dear Mariana: How rejoiced I am to hear that the women of Ohio have called a Convention preparatory to the remodeling of their State Constitution. The remodeling of a Constitution, in the nineteenth century, speaks of progress, of greater freedom, and of more enlarged views of human rights and duties. It is fitting that, at such a time, woman, who has so long been the victim of ignorance and injustice, should at length throw off the trammels of a false education, stand upright, and with dignity and earnestness manifest a deep and serious interest in the Jaws which are to govern her and her country. It needs no argument to teach woman that she is interested in the laws which govern her. Suffering has taught her this already. It is important now that a change is proposed, that she speak, and loudly too. Having decided to petition for a redress of grievances, the question is, for what shall you first petition? For the exercise of your right to the elective franchise nothing short of this. The grant to you of this right will secure all others; and the granting of every other right, whilst this is denied, is a mockery. For instance: What is the right to property without the right to protect