CHAPTER XXVI.. American Woman Suffrage Association.

AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.

Circular Letter--Cleveland Convention--Association Completed--Henry Ward Beecher, President--Convention in Steinway Hall, New York--George William Curtis Speaks--The First Annual Meeting held in Cleveland--Mrs. Tracy Cutler, President--Mass Meeting in Steinway Hall, New York, 1870--State Action Recommended--Moses Coit Tyler Speaks--Mass Meetings in 1871 in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh--Memorial to Congress--Letters from William Lloyd Garrison and others--Hon. G. F. Hoar Advocates Woman Suffrage--Anniversary celebrated at St. Louis--Dr. Stone, of Michigan--Thomas Wentworth Higginson, President, 1872--Convention in Cooper Institute, New York--Two Hundred Young Women march in--Meeting in Plymouth Church--Letters from Louise May Alcott and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps--The Annual Meeting in Detroit--Julia Ward Howe, President--Letter from James T. Field--Mary F. Eastman Addresses the Convention. Bishop Gilbert Haven President for 1875--Convention in Steinway Hall, New York--Hon. Charles Bradlaugh Speaks--Centennial Celebration, July 3d--Petition to Congress for a XVI. Amendment--Conventions in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Washington, and Louisville 756