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UNITED STATES. 



also held a convention in New York on May 

 9th, at which Mrs. H. B. Stanton presided. 

 The following resolutions were adopted : 



Whereas. Horace Greeley, as editor-in-chief of 

 the New York Tribune, has for the last four years 

 lost no opportunity to ridicule and falsify the spirit 

 and purpose, the principles and persons of the 

 woman suffrage movement of this country, thereby 

 making that influential journal a powerful engine 

 against the emancipation of the women of the na- 

 tion: therefore 



Resolved^ That no woman with decent self-respect 

 can aid with voice or pen in his election to the high 

 position to which he is nominated. 



Resolved, That since the right to vote is a right of 

 every citizen of the United States, it is the duty of 

 all patriotic women citizens to exercise this right in 

 the coming presidential election, and the duty of all 

 patriotic men to remove the obstructions now block- 

 ing the way. 



Resolved, That as Cincinnati has refused, in the 

 face of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, 



to recognize women as citizens, with the capacity to 

 be legal representatives in a political convention, it 

 is the duty of the women suffragists throughout the 

 country to send their representatives to Philadelphia 

 and Baltimore to demand of each in turn justice for 

 women, and thus test the loyalty of Kepublicans and 

 Democrats alike to the great principles of freedom 

 on which our Government is based. 



Resolved, That we, the women suffragists of the 

 country, will work and vote with the great national 

 party that shall acknowledge the political equality 

 of woman. 



Resolved, That in case neither Philadelphia nor 

 Baltimore shall recognize the full citizenship of 

 women, the National "Woman Suffrage Committee 

 shall call a National Nominating Convention at such 

 time and place as they shall see fit. 



The election for President and Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the United States took place on No- 

 vember 5th, with the following result, as com- 

 pared with the two previous elections : 



Lincoln's majority over McClellan, 407,342 ; 

 Grant's over Seymour, 305,458 ; Grant's over 

 Greeley, 762,991; O'Conor's vote, 21,559. 



One or two other conventions were held 

 during the year relative to subjects of more 

 or less national interest. An Agricultural 

 Convention, composed of delegates from agri- 

 cultural colleges and societies, etc., assembled 

 in Washington on February 15th, upon the 

 call of the Commissioner of Agriculture to 

 take such action regarding its interests as they 

 should deem expedient. 



A convention to urge the religious amend- 

 ment of the Constitution of the United States 

 was held in Cincinnati, on January 31st. This 

 movement, as an organized and public effort, 

 began in 1863. In that year the amendment 

 was first broached, at the Convention for 

 Prayer and Christian Conference, held at Xe- 

 nia, Ohio, in a paper laid before the meeting 

 by Mr. John Alexander. This paper being re- 

 ferred to a committee composed of represent- 

 atives of the various denominations in the 

 convention, was by them reported upon fa- 



