; that equal co-operation of the sexes is essential alike
to a happy home, a refined society, a Christian church and a
republican State.

WHEREAS, Under the Federal Constitution, "All persons born or
naturalized in the United States are citizens thereof, and of the
States in which they reside;" and, by the decision of the United
States courts, "Women are citizens, and may be made voters by
appropriate State legislation;" therefore,

_Resolved_, That this association regards with satisfaction the
acceptance of the claim of Anna Ella Carroll by the United States
Court of Claims, by which the remarkable services of Miss Carroll
in urging the campaign of Tennessee, which broke the force of the
rebellion and gave success to our armies, will have at last,
after more than a score of years, their late reward.[140]

_Resolved_, That the association send a deputation to Washington
in behalf of its memorial to Congress to frame a statute
prohibiting the disfranchisement of women in the Territories, and
to co-operate with the National Woman Suffrage Association (at
its January meeting) for a Sixteenth Amendment forbidding
political distinctions on account of sex.

The great success of this convention was due in large measure to the
excellent arrangements made by the friends in Minneapolis, especially
Dr. Ripley and Mrs. Martha A. Dorsett.

The association sent two delegates, Henry B. Blackwell and the Rev.
Anna H. Shaw, to Washington, to urge upon the House Committee the duty
of Congress to establish equal suffrage in the Territories. They were
given a respectful hearing.

_1886._--The Eighteenth annual meeting was held in Topeka, Kan.,
October 26-28. The morning and afternoon sessions were held in Music
Hall. Above the platform hung the beautiful banner of the Minnesota W.
S. A., sent by Dr. Martha G. Ripley, and at its side was a package of
7,000 leaflets for distribution contributed by Mrs. Cornelia C. Hussey
of New Jersey, which were gladly taken for use in different States.
The evening meetings assembled in the Hall of the House of
Representatives, seating 1,200 persons; the floor and both galleries
were crowded with the best citizens of Topeka; all the desks were
taken out, making room for more chairs, and even then hundreds of
people were turned away. Both halls were given free.

All the preparations had been admirably made