ir ignorance, will continue to bring forth slavery, and to
educate their children as the tools of despotism. It was said
that inequality of property is complained of among women, but
that it exists just as much among men. But what is complained of
among women is not inequality of property, but absence of
representation.

Addresses were made by Rev. John Snyder, of St. Louis; Lucy
Stone; Mrs. Duniway, of Oregon, and Mrs. Livermore; after which
the audience rose and united in singing the doxology, and the
meeting adjourned.

In November, 1877, the American Woman Suffrage Association issued
the following:

TO WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS.--We mail to every subscriber of the
_Woman's Journal_ a blank petition to Congress for a XVI.
Amendment. Also, in the same envelope, a woman suffrage
petition to your own State Legislature--Please offer both
petitions together for signature. Thus, with the same amount
of labor, both objects will be accomplished.

Respectfully, LUCY STONE,
_Chairman Ex. Com., Am. Woman Suffrage Assoc._

BOSTON, Nov. 24, 1877.

Later appeared in the _Woman's Journal_ a paragraph to the
effect:

Every subscriber has received from us, by mail, two forms of
petitions; the one addressed to the State Legislature, the
other to Congress. We consider State action the more
important, but signatures to both petitions can be obtained
at the same time.

These petitions should be circulated at once, and sent back
to No. 4 Park St., Boston, by the middle of January. We hope
for more signers than ever before. Friends of woman
suffrage, circulate the petitions!

The result was a petition, sent by the Executive Committee of the
American Woman Suffrage Association into Congress, enrolling
6,000 names.

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The Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Woman Suffrage
Association assembled in Masonic Hall at Indianapolis, in 1878.
There was a full attendance of delegates. The evening before the
convention an informal reception was held at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. M. H. McKay. Among those who called in the course of the
evening to pay their respects