Francis Minor's Resolutions--Hearing before Congressional Committee--Descriptions by Mrs. Fannie Howland and Grace Greenwood--Washington Convention 1870--Rev. Samuel J. May--Senator Carpenter--Professor Sprague, of Cornell University--Notes of Mrs. Hooker--May Anniversary in New York--The Fifth Avenue Conference--Second Decade Celebration--Washington, 1871--Victoria Woodhull's Memorial--Judiciary Committee--Majority and Minority Reports--George W. Julian and A. A. Sargent in the House--May Anniversary, 1871--Washington in 1872--Senate Judiciary Committee--Benjamin F. Butler--The Sherman-Dahlgren Protest--Women in Grant and Wilson Campaign 407 CHAPTER XXIV. NATIONAL CONVENTIONS--1873, '74, '75. Fifth Washington Convention--Mrs. Gage on Centralization--May Anniversary in New York--Washington Convention, 1874--Frances Ellen Burr's Report--Rev. O. B. Frothingham in New York Convention--Territory of Pembina--Discussion in the Senate--Conventions in Washington and New York, 1875--Hearings before Congressional Committees 521 CHAPTER XXV. TRIALS AND DECISIONS. Women Voting under the XVI. Amendment--Appeals to the Courts--Marilla M. Ricker, of New Hampshire, 1870--Nannette B. Gardner, Michigan--Sara Andrews Spencer, District of Columbia--Ellen Rand Van Valkenburgh, California--Catherine V. Waite, Illinois--Carrie S. Burnham, Pennsylvania--Sarah M. T. Huntingdon, Connecticut--Susan B. Anthony, New York--Virginia L. Minor, Missouri--Judges McKee, Jameson, Sharswood, Cartter--Associate Justice Hunt--Chief Justice Waite--Myra Bradwell--Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter--Supreme Court Decisions 586 CHAPTER XXVI. 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