R. M. C. Capron, M. H. Mowry, Mary Eddy, Daniel Mitchell, Paulina W. Davis, G. Davis, A. Barnes, Dr. S. Mowry, Betsey F. Lawton.

VERMONT.-Mrs. A. E. Brown, Mrs. C. I. H. Nichols. NEW HAMPSHIRE.—Sarah Pillsbury, P. B. Cogswell, Parker Pillsbury, Ira Foster, Julia Worcester.

MAINE-Oliver Dennett, Anna R. Blake, Ellen M.

Prescott.

NEW YORK.-Antoinette L. Brown, Pliny Sexton, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Hicks, J. C. Hathaway, Lucy N. Colman, Ernestine L. Rose, S. H. Hallock, Joseph Carpenter.

PENNSYLVANIA.-Hannah M. Darlington, Sarah Tyndale, Olive W. Hastings, Rebecca Plumley, S. L. Hastings, Janette Jackson, Anna R. Cox, Phebe Goodwin, Alice Jackson, Jacob Pierce, Lewis E. Capen, S. L. Miller, Isaac L Miller, Lucretia Mott, Emma Parker.

OHIO.-Marian Blackwell, Ellen Blackwell, M. A. W.

Johnson.

Iowa. Silas Smith.

CALIFORNIA.-Mary G. Wright.

UNKNOWN.-Sophia Taft, Calvin Fairbanks, D. H. Knowlton, Alice H. Easton, E. W. K. Thompson, Mary R. Hubbard, E. J. Alden, Anna T. Draper, Josephine Reglar, Diana W. Ballou, Adeline S. Greene, Silence Bigelow, A. Wyman, L. H. Ober, Aseneth Fuller, Denney M. F. Walker, Eunice D. F. Pierce, Elijah Houghton.—82. Total, 268.

E.

HARRIOT K. HUNT'S PROTEST AGAINST TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

IN “Glances and Glimpses," a book published by Dr Hunt in 1856, the writer gives her own experience at the time she was converted to the doctrine of "no taxation

without representation." She says: "In October, 1851, when my taxes were to be paid, it was necessary for me to go to the Assessors' room that I might have some alteration made in the bill. While waiting there for this to be attended to, I received a lesson which thoroughly converted me to the belief that taxation without representation is a violation of human rights, and there I made up my mind to verify my theory by my practice. What so suddenly produced this effect? A pale, thin, waxy, tall, awkward, simple Irish boy, with that vacant stare which speaks of entire negation, and that shuffling manner indicating an errandlike aspect, brought into the Assessors' office a roll. It was near the time of an election, but I did not think of it.. I said pleasantly, 'Is that paper to grant a naturalization?' I received a polite affirmative. 'Permit me to look at it?' 'Certainly. There to my astonishment the above-described gentleman was invested with all the privileges of an American citizen. I query whether this Irish boy knew in what state Boston was located, whether in Massachusetts or Mississippi. This circumstance gave me an insight into the injustice of our laws forbidding women to vote, which decided me to pay my taxes next year under protest. Accordingly I sent the following protest:

To Frederick U. Tracy, Treasurer, and the Assessors, and other authorities of the City of Boston, and the citi zens generally.

Harriot K. Hunt, physician, a native and permanent resident of the City of Boston, and for many years a tax payer therein, in making payment of her city taxes for the coming year, begs leave to protest against the injustice and inequality of levying taxes upon women, and at the same time refusing them any voice or vote in the imposition and expenditure of the same. The only classes of male persons required to pay taxes and not at the same time allowed the privilege of voting, are aliens and minors. The objection

in the case of aliens, is, their supposed want of interest in our institutions, and knowledge of them. The objection in case of minors, is, the want of sufficient understanding. These objections certainly cannot apply to women, natives of the city, all whose property and interests are here, and who have accumulated by their own sagacity and industry the very property on which they are taxed. But this is not all; the alien by going through the forms of naturalization, the minor on coming of age, obtain the right of voting, and so long as they continue to pay a mere poll-tax of a dollar and a half, they may continue to exercise it, though so ignorant as not to be able to sign their names, or read the very votes they put into the ballot boxes. Even drunkards, felons, idiots, or lunatics of men, may still enjoy that right of voting, to which no woman-however large the amount of taxes she pays, however respectable her character or useful her life-can ever attain. Wherein, your remon strant would inquire, is the justice, equality, or wisdom of this?

That the rights and interests of the female part of the community are sometimes forgotten or disregarded in consequence of their deprivation of political rights, is strik ingly evinced, as appears to your remonstrant, in the organization and administration of the city public schools. Though there are open in this State and neighborhood a great multitude of colleges and professional schools, for the education of boys and young men, yet the city has very properly provided two high schools of its own, one Latin, the other English, at which the male graduates of the grammar schools may pursue their education still further at the public expense, and why is not a like provision made for the girls? Why is the public provision for their educa tion stopped short, just as they have attained the age best fitted for progress, and the preliminary knowledge neces sary to facilitate it, thus giving the advantage of superior culture to sex, not to mind? The fact that our colleges and professional schools are closed against females, of which

your remonstrant has had personal and painful experiencehaving been in the year 1847, after twelve years of medical practice in Boston, refused permission to attend the lec tures of Harvard Medical College-that fact would seem to furnish an additional reason why the city should provide at its own expense those means of superior education, which, by supplying our girls with occupation and objects of interest, would not only save them from lives of frivolity and emptiness, but which might open the way to many useful and lucrative pursuits, and so raise them above that degrading dependence, so fruitful a source of female misery.

Reserving a more full exposition of the subject to future occasions, your remonstrant in paying her tax for the current year, begs leave to protest against the injustice and inequalities above pointed out.

This is respectfully submitted,
HARRIOT K. HUNT,

BOSTON, October 18, 1852.

32 Green Street.

The protest was copied in many American, as well as some English papers. It elicited inquiry, and many facts were brought to light illustrating the injustice of taxation without representation."

Dr. Hunt continued to protest every year as long as she lived, and her example was followed by women in Worcester, Plymouth, Lowell, Malden and perhaps in other places. No notice was taken of these protests by the proper authorities to whom they were addressed, but they served their purpose as a means of agitating the Woman's Rights question. The cry, "Taxation without representation is tyranny," has been ding-donged into the ears of the men of Massachusetts for the last thirty years. By and by, perhaps, they will begin to understand what it means.

F.

CONVENTIONS AND WOMEN'S MEETINGS HELD BY MRS. CAROLINE HEALEY DALL.

MRS. DALL'S connection with the early Woman's Rights movement in Massachusetts is very important. She held a successful Convention, (not mentioned in the text), June 1st, 1860, at the Meionaon, in Boston. Caroline M. Sev. erance presided, Samuel J. May, R. J. Hinton, Harriet Tubman, Rev. James Freeman Clark, Dr. Mercy B. Jack. ̧ son, Elizabeth M. Powell, and Wendell Phillips, took part in the discussion. Theodore Parker had recently died in Florence, Italy, and Mrs. Dall made an able address on the work of his life. Mrs. E. D Cheney offered a resolution on the untimely death of this distinguished reformer. In the evening, Mrs. Dall spoke on the influence of law and literature upon the woman movement. So many

women of position and culture had already become interested in this question, that this Convention may be called the most aristocratic meeting of the kind held up to that date. Previous to 1860, Mrs. Dall had given a course of twelve lectures in Boston, on the various phases of woman's rights. In them she claimed: 1. Woman's right to civil position. 2. Woman's right to higher education. Woman's right to choice of vocation. 4. Woman's right to self-protection in the elective franchise. A resume of these lectures was published in 1868, in book form, called “The College, the Market, and the Court."

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Mrs. Dall's writings did a good work in forming public opinion, and creating interest on the subjects of which she treated. Some of the doctrines she taught had never before been publicly presented to Boston audiences. Her fresh and untrammelled thought was like seed-grain, and it was planted deep, to spring up and bear fruit for the increase of the woman's rights agitation. She made many distinguished converts. On her own authority it may be

stated that she presided at the meeting when Ralph Waldo Emerson gave in his adherence to the Woman Suffrage Cause. Considering the early date of Mrs. Dall's labors in this direction, it is not too much to say, that her influence was of so great value that her name deserves to be recorded with those of Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller.

Through her special efforts women were first put on the board of Officers of the American and the Boston Social Science Associations, and the result of this action vindicated at once and forever woman's fitness to occupy the same position in all public societies and associations, that man had hitherto claimed for himself alone. Since 1865 the American Social Science Association has admitted women to a position of entire equality, as members, officers, and as speakers at its annual conventions. This has been of great benefit, since it has encouraged women to express themselves in the presence of the wisest men, and enabled them to present to the public the woman side of some great questions.

G.

THREE MIDDLESEX COUNTY CONVENTIONS.

IN 1875 three important woman suffrage conventions were held by the Middlesex County Woman Suffrage Asso ciation in the towns of Malden, Melrose and Concord. These meetings were conducted something after the style of local church conferences. They were well advertised, and many people came to them. A collation was provided by the ladies of each town, and the feast of reason was so judiciously mingled with the triumphs of cookery, that converting to the cause was never done so easily and so harmoniously. Many women present at one or the other of these conventions, said to the president: "I never before