put into its archives. He will probably get them.

A gentleman said to me last week: "What is the use of your doing
this? Your votes will count nothing in the election." "It will do
good in two ways," I replied. "You say there will not be five
women there. We will show you that you are mistaken; that women
do want to vote, and it will strengthen them for action in the
future." Both these ends have been accomplished; and on November
12 we are to meet again, to consider and decide what to do about
the taxation that is soon coming upon us.

While the Vineland women expressed their opinion by voting, other
true friends of woman's enfranchisement were moved to do the same.
_The Revolution_ of November 12, 1868, gave the following:

The Newark _Daily Advertiser_ says that Mrs. Hannah Blackwell, a
highly esteemed elderly lady, long resident in Roseville, and
Mrs. Lucy Stone, her daughter-in-law, both of them
property-holders and tax-payers in the county, appeared at the
polls in Roseville Park, accompanied by Messrs. Bathgate and
Blackwell as witnesses, and offered their votes. The judges of
election were divided as to the propriety of receiving the votes
of the ladies, one of them stating that he was in favor of doing
so, the two others objecting on the ground of their illegality.
The ladies stated that they had taken advice of eminent lawyers,
and were satisfied that in New Jersey, women were legally
entitled to vote, from the fact that the old constitution of the
State conferred suffrage upon "all inhabitants" worth $250. Under
that constitution women did in fact vote until, in 1807, by an
arbitrary act of the legislature, women were excluded from the
polls. The new constitution, adopted in 1844, was framed by a
convention and adopted by a constituency, from both of which
women were unconstitutionally excluded, so that they have never
been allowed to vote upon the question of their own
disfranchisement. The article in the present constitution on the
right of suffrage confers it upon white male citizens, but does
not expressly limit it to such. It is claimed that from the
absence of any express limitation in the present constitution,
and from the compulsory exclusion of the parties interested from
its adoption, the political rights of women under the old