As it was the year for nominating candidates for the presidency of the United States, the Republicans and Democrats were about to hold their great' conventions.

Hence letters were to be written to them recommending a woman suffrage plank in their platforms, and asking seats for women in the conventions, with the privilege of being heard in their own behalf.

On these letters our united wisdom was concentrated, and twenty thousand copies of each were published.
Then it was thought pre-eminently proper that a Woman's Declaration of Rights should be issued.

Days and nights were spent over that document.
After many twists from our analytical tweezers, with a critical consideration of every word and sentence, it was at last, by a consensus of the competent, pronounced very good.

Thousands were ordered to be printed, and were folded, put in envelopes, stamped, directed, and scattered.