3d. That we ask you to appoint a
committee of equal number and authority with our own, to consummate
if possible this happy result.

Yours, in the common cause of woman's enfranchisement, Isabella
Beecher Hooker, Samuel J. May, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Josephine S.
Griffing, Laura Curtis Bullard, Gerrit Smith, Sarah Pugh, Frederick
Douglass, Mattie Griffith Brown, James W. Stillman--Theodore
Tilton, ex officio.

The acceptance of this proposition was strongly urged by Judge
Bradwell, of Chicago, and the committee on resolutions recommended "the
appointment of a committee of conference, of like number with the one
appointed by the Union Suffrage Society with a view to the union of
both organizations." After a spirited discussion, this resolution was
rejected. The National Association, having exhausted all efforts for
reconciliation and union, never thereafter made further overtures. Two
distinct organizations were maintained, and there were no more attempts
at union for twenty years.

[Footnote 52: For selections from newspapers and letters and the list
of presents see Appendix.]

[Footnote 53:

We touch our caps, and place to night
The victor's wreath upon her.
The woman who outranks us all
In courage and in honor.

While others in domestic broils
Have proved by word and carriage,
That one of the United States
Is not the state of marriage,

She, caring not for loss of men,
Nor for the world's confusion,
Hap carried on a civil war
And made a "Revolution."

True, other women have been brave,
When banded or hus-banded,
But she has bravely fought her way
Alone and single-handed.

And think of her unselfish life,
Her generous disposition,
Who never made a lasting prop
Out of a proposition.

She might have chose an honored name,
and none had scorned or hissed it;
Have written Mrs. Jones or Smith,
But, strange to say, she Missed it.

For fifty years to come may she
Grow rich and ripe and mellow,
Be quoted even above "par,"
"Or any other fellow;"

And spread the truth from pole to pole,
and keep her light a-burning
Before she cuts her stick to go
To where there's no returning.

Because her motto grand hath been
The rights of every human
And first and last, and right or wrong,
She takes the part of woman.

"A perfect woman, nobly planned,"
To aid, not to amu