May 4, 1872
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A SIGN OF THE TIMES
HENRY WARD BEECHER FOR PRESIDENT—NEW RELIGIO-POLITICAL PARTY TO BE FORMED IN NEW YORK—HENRY WARD BEECHER PROPOSED AS ITS CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.
To the Editor of the Herald:
It has been announced and it is now generally understood among the more radical and progressive classes throughout the United State that a National Convention of the various bodies, organizations and movements which represent the revolutionary spirit of the country, as relates to political, social, religious, and educational reforms, is to [be] held in Steinway Hall, in the city of New York, the 9th and 10th of May proximo. The object for which the Convention has been called is a purely political one, namely, to form a coalition, if possible of all those classes of citizens everywhere that are devoted more to the principles of justice, of truth, of freedom and equal rights than to the success either of the Republican or Democratic parties; and in case the Convention shall agree upon a definite course of political action to be pursued, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States for the next Presidential term.
The Convention referred to is expected to be composed of representatives of the following organizations, viz.: —The National Labor Party, the International Workingmen’s Association, the Woman Suffrage party, the Temperance party, the Peace party, the Spiritualists, the Liberal or non-Evangelical Christians, the Free Religionists, the Free-Thinkers, the Free Lovers, the Land Reformers, the Socialists, Communists, Positivists, Harmonialists, etc. Now the question arises, “How or upon what theory is it expected that a convention representing such a variety, if not a diversity of ideas, will so far fraternize, fuse and consolidate as to come to an understand that will be satisfactory to the different elements composing it, promote the ideas they respectively represent, and secure the earnest and undivided support of all the elements thus represented in the present political campaign? How is such a convention to agree upon candidates who would represent so many reforms or movements? Who will the candidates probably be?”
Each class of voters represented in the convention may be supposed to have its favorite exponents, its great champions, leading spirits and ideal representatives of what it conceives to be the important issue of the times, and whom it would prefer to have as the Chief Magistrate. For instance, the labor party has already nominated Judge Davis, of Illinois, as its choice, and it may be unwilling to drop him and go for a coalition candidate. Then there are the Internationals with their favorite, whoever he may be—may be Wendell Phillips. Next, the woman suffrage party may clamor to have Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Theodore Tilton or Victoria C. Woodhull nominated. The temperance party may urge the nomination of George Francis Train or some other temperance champion. The Spiritualists may want Andrew Jackson Davis or Robert Dale Owen, and the other factions, likewise, may each have their champion and leader, to be nominated if they can. Here, then, is a probability of a very wide difference of honest opinion coming together, and an opportunity for disagreements, schisms, confusion, and defeat of the objects in view, unless the wisest counsels are allowed to govern, and a spirit of concession and of mutual support and dependence prevail in the sessions of the Convention. the individuals above named are known to the public as the exponents as the special phase of radical thought and reform. If any of them should be nominated at the New York Convention, it is, to say the least, doubtful whether they would receive the undivided support of the different factions or bodies to be represented in the Convention. Indeed, it is not improbable that the nomination of any of them might result in some of the parties to the convention entirely withholding their allegiance and support to the nominee and the new party, and thus endanger the success of the whole movement. It seems to be plain that some sort of compromise will have to be effected before a candidate can be selected who would stand any chance of election or of receiving the whole vote of all the classes holding the convention. Now, the course which a wise policy would indicate in such a state of things as the one most likely to meet the exigencies of all classes, would be not to press the nomination of any person for the Presidency who is notoriously identified with, or the recognized champion of any special phase of reform, for the reason that such persons, however good and competent they may be, are generally unpopular, distasteful and obnoxious to the popular mind. The convention should select a candidate who is friendly and tolerant, or at least not unfriendly and intolerant, to the various ideas animating the new party, and one, if possible, who is well and favorably known to the public, and to whom, if elected, the people would look up to with confidence and respect. As fulfilling these requirements in an eminent degree greater, perhaps, than could be found in any other individual—may be named
MR. HENRY WARD BEECHER, OF NEW YORK.
Mr. Beecher’s character, abilities and fame are world-wide, and would in themselves be a tower of strength to any party that would choose him for their candidate. His history and antecedents are known to everybody. His influence is already felt over the civilized world. His sermons, lectures and speeches have been more widely and generally read the past twenty years than the utterances of almost any contemporaneous public teacher. Furthermore, Mr. Beecher is a liberalist, in his views and teachings. Some would consider him very radical. He, for instance, has from his own Plymouth pulpit endorsed the Internationals and eulogized the Paris Communists; he has admitted the main points of Spiritualism; he has surrendered the infallibility of the Scriptures, or dogma of plenary inspiration; he repudiates the doctrine of eternal punishment; he favors woman suffrage and the equality of the sexes; he is the patron of temperance, peace, toleration, progress. In a word, Mr. Beecher is a man of reasonable ideas, honest and frank, possessing a mind open to the convictions of reason and truth and the intuitions of his soul. Of his devotional nature it is quite unnecessary to speak.
Taking this view of the New York Convention and Mr. Beecher, it is questionable whether there is a person in the United States who combines in himself so many of the elements of success as a candidate for the Presidency as Mr. Beecher, and who would at the same time represent to an equal extent the radical and progressive character of the proposed new party. Perhaps the strongest opposition to the nomination of Mr. Beecher would come from the anti-ecclesiastical class, for the reason that he is a Christian minister, and that his church proclivities might bias his judgment in favor of ecclesiastical laws and measures to the detriment of the cause of justice, freedom and religious liberty. But it will be well for this class to remember (and the writer of this of that class himself) that Mr. Beecher is no a narrow-minded bigot in religion and morals, but reasonably liberal and moderate in his views; and, furthermore, that no anti-Christian or infidel candidate would, if nominate, secure one-half the support from the people of the United States which Mrs. Beecher would. If the New York Convention nominates a man or woman for President who is the representative of some “one idea,” unpopular, incomprehensible and distasteful to the people at large, the result may be the signal defeat of such candidate and party, and the cause which will be made to sustain the shock will be injured, perhaps, retarded for years, instead of promoted. In the estimation of many people there is a certain degree of odium, of unpopularity, a lacking of respectability, which attaches for instance, to the agitation of woman’s rights, spiritualism, skepticism, free love, sexology, etc. The several reforms are now making rapid progress in revolutionizing public opinion; but, should the devotees of these reforms run a candidate for the White House solely on these issues, there is no probability it would meet with anything but defeat, and the cause, as well as the candidates, would be made the butt of partisan abuse, calumny, misrepresentation, ridicule and reproach. These reforms are too young and yet too tender to endure the giant kicks and bruises they would inevitable get in a contest with the brute forces of political warfare during the excitement of a Presidential campaign. What utility or wisdom could there be in running the gauntlet of popular condemnation when nothing can be gained but much may be lost?
On the contrary should Mr. Beecher receive the nomination of the New York Convention, that gentleman would stand a fair chance for election next November. The only point of difficulty about the matter will be whether the new party could frame a platform of principles which Mr. Beecher could conscientiously accept and stand upon. Unless the proposed new party make some such compromise and such a nomination as is herein indicated, the chances of the new party for political power would seem to be a forlorn hope. Can the several factions which the new party is to embrace make the necessary concessions, sacrifices and compromises, which the success of the movement and the necessities of the case demand? Can Mr. Beecher reciprocate in like manner and accommodate himself to the exigencies of the times and the progressive spirit of that party that, possibly may thus choose him as the candidate for the Presidency of the United States? Can the proposed new political coalition place upon their ticket the name of any man of equal strength and popularity which would in the least degree represent the principles and spirit of the party? What other person could the new party begin to elect in the present campaign? Would Mr. Beecher, even if defeated as the candidate of the new party, suffer any loss; either politically, socially, or morally, by accepting such a nomination? Would not he, and the new party also, be strengthened, consolidated, and made more powerful for the future, even should such a nomination fail of election next fall? The writer of this frankly admits that Mr. Beecher is not his first choice. He could name several persons whom he would prefer should occupy the Presidential chair; but he knows very well they would stand but a poor chance for election, even in nominated by the Convention. As long as we cannot at present elevate to the Presidency the person who would be our first choice, let us do the best we can in that direction. None of the existing political parties in the United States can nominate a candidate who would answer the make-up of the proposed coalition near so well as does Mr. Beecher, and if he be not the beau ideal of the new party, he is much nearer to it than any Democratic or Republican candidate will be. If the New York Convention nominate Mr. Beecher it would, at any rate, be taking a step in the right direction, and with it a fair prospect of a popular campaign and final success. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are in a state of rapid decomposition and dissolution. Let the live, progressive, but at present despondent members of those parties unite with the new national party to be formed at the New York Convention next month and nominate a popular, progressive man like Mr. Beecher for President, and the next 4th of March he will be inaugurated President of the United States.
E.F.B
BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 17, 1872
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THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE TO SECURE AND MAINTAIN HUMAN RIGHTS,
TO BE INAUGURATED IN THE U. S., IN MAY, 1872.
We, the undersigned citizens of the United States, believing the time has come for the formation of an entirely new party whose principles shall meet the vital issues of the hour purpose to hold a Convention in the city of New York, on the 9th and 10th of May, 1872, for the purpose of constructing a platform and considering nominations for President and Vice-President—the first so broad as to include every human right, and the last, the best possible exponents of every branch of reform.
Some of the reasons, which render this step necessary, are as follows :
We charge on the present Government, that in so far as it has not secured freedom, maintained equality and administered justice to each citizen, it has proven a failure; and since it exists without the consent of the governed, therefore, that it is not a republican government.
We charge it with being a political despotism, inasmuch as the minority have usurped the whole political power, and by its unscrupulous use prevent the majority from participation in the government, nevertheless compelling them to contribute to its maintenance and holding them amenable to the laws, which condition was described by its founders as absolute bondage.
We charge it with being a financial and military despotism; using usurped power to coerce the people.
We charge it with using and abusing millions of citizens who, by the cunningly devised legislation of the privileged classes, are condemned to lives of continuous servitude and want, being always half fed and half clothed, and often half sheltered.
We charge it with gross and wicked neglect of its children, permitting them to be reared to lives of ignorance, vice and crime; as a result of which it now has more than five and a half millions of citizens over ten years of age who can neither read nor write.
We charge it with having degenerated from its once high estate into a mere conspiracy of office-holders, money-lenders, land-grabbers rings and lobbies, against the mechanic, the farmer and the laborer, by which the former yearly rob the latter of all they produce.
And finally we indict it as a whole, as unworthy of longer toleration, since rivers of human blood, and centuries of human toil, are too costly prices to be demanded of a people who have already paid the price of freedom; nevertheless, such was the price demanded and paid for a slavery, which, in point of human wretchedness, was comparatively as nothing to that which still exists, to abolish which it promises to demand still more blood and greater servitude and toil.
In view of these conditions, which are a reproach upon our civilization, all persons residing within the United States, regardless of race, sex, nationality or previous condition; and especially Labor, Land, Peace and Temperance reformers, and Internationals and Woman Suffragists—including all the various Suffrage Associations—as well as all others who believe the time has come when the principles of eternal justice and human equity should be carried into our halls of legislation, our courts and market-places, instead of longer insisting that they shall exist merely as indefinite, negative and purposeless theories—as matters of faith, separate from works, are earnestly invited to respond to this call and, through properly constituted delegations to join with us, and in concert with the National Woman Suffrage Association to help us to inaugurate the great and good work of reformation.
This reformation, properly begun, will expand into a political revolution which shall sweep over the country and purify it of demagogism, official corruption and party despotism; after which the reign of all the people may be possible through a truly republican government which shall not only recognize but guarantee equal political and social rights to all men and women, and which shall secure equal opportunities for education to all children.
Victoria C. Woodhull, New York City.
Horace H. Day, New York City.
Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Conn.
L. E. De Wolf, Chicago, Ills.
Ellen Dickinson, Vineland, New Jersey.
Theodore H. Banks, New York City.
Mary J. Holmes, Memphis, Tenn.
Ira B. Davis, New York City.
Laura Cuppy Smith, Cal.
E. H. Heywood, Princeton, Mass.
Ellen Goodell Smith, Philadelphia, Penn.
Hon. J. D. Reymert, New York City.
Marilla M. Ricker, Dover, N. H.
Horace Dresser, New York City.
Marie Howland, Hammonton, N. J.
A. G. W. Carter, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Addie L. Ballou, Terre Haute, Ind.
Hon. H. C. Dibble, New Orleans, Louisiana.
M. S. Townsend Hoadley, Lynn, Mass.
R. W. Hume, New York City.
Martha P. Jacobs, Worcester, Mass.
John M. Spear, San Francisco, Cal.
E. Hope Whipple, Clyde, Ohio.
John Brown Smith, Philadelphia, Penn.
Col. Henry Beeny, New York City.
Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J.
Dan’l W. Hull. Hobart, Ind.
E. G. Granville, Baltimore, Md.
Jonathan Watson, Titusville, Pa.
Mrs. S. H. Blanchard, Worcester, Mass.
Newman Weeks, Rutland, Vt.
John Beeson, Chapinville, Conn.
Mrs. B. W. Briggs, Rochester, N. Y.
George R. Allen, New York City.
J. H. W. Toohey, Providence, R. I.
Belva A. Lockwood, Washington, D. C.
Jonathan Koons, Taylors Hill, Ill.
W. F. Jamieson, Chicago, Ill.
Dyer D. Lum, Portland, Me.
Thomas W. Organ, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Mary A. Leland, New York City.
B. Franklin Clark, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dr. E. P. Gazzam, New York City.
William West, New York City.
Hon. C. C. Cowley, Boston, Mass.
L. K. Coonley, Vineland, N. J.
Moses Hull, Vineland, N. J.
Hon. John M. Howard, New Orleans, La.
Prof. E. Whipple, Clyde, Ohio.
Harvey Lyman, Springfield, Mass.
L. Bush, Jamestown, Tenn.
Mrs. J. H. Severance, Milwaukee, Wis.
T. Millot, New York City.
Cornie H. Maynard, Buffalo, N. Y.
B. S. Brown, Buffalo, N. Y.
S. J. Holley, Buffalo, N. Y.
Harriet B. Burton, New York City.
Frances Kingman, New London, Conn.
Hannah J. Hunt, Delta, Ohio.
Fred. S. Cabot, New York City.
T. C. Leland, New York City.
S. T. Fowler, Brooklyn, N. Y.
John Orvis, Boston, Mass.
Carrie Lewis, Cleveland, Ohio.
Jane S. Griffin, New York City.
Michael Scanlon, New York City.
Joshua Rose, New York City.
Louise B. Flanders, Malone, N. Y.
Jane M. Wilson, Brooklyn, N. Y.
John Little, New York City.
J. T. Elliott, New York City.
Thomas Haskell, West Gloucester, Mass.
Mrs. A. E. Mossop, Sturgis, Mich.
D. B Marks, Hallsport, N. J.
J. H. Severance, Milwaukee, Wis.
Josiah Warren, Princeton, Mass.
Jane Case, Oswego, N. Y.
Frances Rose McKinley, New York City.
Danvers Doubleday, New York City.
Dr. J. H. Hill, Knightstown, Ind.
Geo. R. Case, Norwich, Conn.
Alfred A. Smith, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Lucy Coleman, Syracuse, N. Y.
Mrs. Dr. Raymond, Syracuse, N. Y.
Mrs. George, Syracuse, N. Y.
Mr. S. D, Fobes, Syracuse, N. Y.
Mrs. C. B. Forbes, Syracuse, N. Y.
A. Orvis, Rochester, N. Y.
Dr. A. G. Wolf, Mystic River, Ct.
Emily B. Rood, Fredonia, N. Y.
Nathaniel Randall, M. D., Woodstock, Vt.
Thomas Marston, Philadelphia, Pa.
Otis F. Porter, Bridgport, Ct.
Seward Mitchel, Coonville, Me.
Thos. J. Schofield, Nephi City, Utah.
D. C. Coleman, Philadelphia, Pa.
Daniel Wood, Lebanon, Me.
G. S. Middlebrook, Bridgport, Ot.
Nettie M. Pease, Chicago, Ill.
Angela T. Heywood, Princeton, Mass.
John Hepburn, Milwaukee, Wis.
W. H. Dibble, Middleton, Ct.
Ellen M. Child, Philadelphia, Pa.
Wmn. H. Wescott, Philadelphia, Pa.
Mary J. Thorne, Philadelphia, Pa.
Alfred H. Love, Philadelphia, Pa.
C. B. Rogers. Philadelphia, Pa.
J. H. Rhodes, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa
Lavina A. Dundore, Baltimore, Md.
Mercy Clark, Baltimore, Md.
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Geo. F. Kittridge, Buffalo, N. Y.
Seward Mitchell, Coonville, Maine.
William Hanson, Elmira, N. Y.
G. W Madox, Ellsworth, Me.
J. K. Ingalls, Yates County, N. Y.
D. Tarbell, E. Granville, Vt.
Lydia A. Schofield, Philadelphi, Pa.
C. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass.
T. M. Ewing, Cardington, Ohio.
E. B. Foote, M. D., New York city.
O. L. Sutleff, Wooster, Ohio.
C. L. James, Alma, Wisconsin.
Milo A. Townsend. Beaver Falls, Penn.
Amy Post, Rochester, N. Y.
Henry T. Child, M. D., Philadelphia, Penn.
John M. Sterling, Kiantone, N. Y.
Jennie Leys, Boston, Mass.
Dr. E. Woodruff, Grand Rapids, Mich.
C. H. Pollok, New York City.
Frank Crocker, New York City.
Anna Kimball, Parker, New York City.
NOTE . — All who wish to unite in this great movement and who, in good faith, approve this call, will address in writing, with full name, to either of the above—who will immediately verify and forward to the undersigned for the Committee of arrangements in New York.
Tickets of Admittance to the Convention prepared for each Delegate, will be ready by the 8th of May—and to avoid confusion, no person will be admitted to the floor of the Convention without such tickets.
VICTORIA C. WOODHULL,
44 Broad street, New York.
Or, B. FRANKLIN CLARK, Sec’y Com.,
55 Liberty street, New York.
NEW YORK, March 30, 1872.
We yield from our crowded columns space for a few of the names of delegates received, and not yet published.
Before the assembling of the convention we hope to print an extra containing the names and residences of all the authorized delegates:
Jane B. Archibald, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. M. E. Otis, Damariscotta, Maine.
J. W. Stuart, Broadhead, Wis.
Edwin A. Teall, Buffalo, N. Y
Thomas Evans, Buffalo, N. Y.
Miss E. Woodcock, Minooka, Ill.
Solomon M. Jewett, Rutland, Vt.
Charles Coockett, Dexter, Maine.
Martin Smith, Dexter, Maine.
Elizabeth Ewing, Cardington, Ohio.
Josian Buxton, Minooka Ill.
Charles Woodcock, Minooka, Ill.
Richard Woodcock, Minooka, Ill.
Miss M. A. Woodcock, Minooka, Ill.
Miss J. Woodcock, Minooka, Ill.
Ed. F. Blackmond, Buffalo, N. Y.
J. Lewis Schrader, Buffalo, N. Y.
Stephen Andrews, Coonville, Maine.
D. D. Flynt, Dexter, Maine,
Fisher M. Clark, New York city.
John M. Kelso, San Francisco, Cal
Louis L. Bender, Buffalo, N. Y.
Thomas Richmond, Hancock, Vt.
James S. Gamage, Damariscotta.
Mary C. Hebard, Rochester, N. Y.
Eunice P. Smith, Coonville, Maine .;
Emily F. Tilton, Coonville, Maine.
Chas. W. Hebard, Rochester, N. Y.
Mary C. Wight, Rochester, N. Y.
A. L. Gamage, Damariscotta.
Mrs. Georgie W. Gamage, Damariscotta.
Harry Smart, Buffalo, N. Y.
Robt. D. Whitney, Buffalo, N. Y.
Joseph Wharf, Damariscotta.
J. H. Ford, Geneva, Wis.
Frances A. Flanders, Coonville, Maine.
E. T. Pierce, Coonville, Maine.
Geo. M. Taber, Springfield, Ohio.
J. Raymond Talmadge, Calumet Harbor, Wis.
M. McDonough, Buffalo, N. Y.
Charles Hanaden, Buffalo, N. Y.
_____ Larrabee, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. L. G. Waterhouse, Sacramento, Col.
Mrs. E. E. Gibbs, Sacramento, Cal.
D. E. Gamage, Damariscotta.
Mary J. Morrill, Coonville, Maine.
Hiram F. Magoon, Coonville, Maine.
S. L, O. Allen, South Newbury, Ohio.
David Cocks, Pleasantville, N. Y.
Elizabeth G. Wise, St. Joseph, Mo.
W. H. Overocker, Buffalo, N. Y.
F. Todd, Buffalo, N. Y.
Elizabeth Valoria Ingram, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Angeline T. Gamage, Damariscotta.
H. S. Donne, Pottsville, Penn.
Geo. N. Bauer, Buffalo, N. Y.
Mort. D. Kenyon, Buffalo, N. Y.
Abram T. Gamage, Damariscotta.
Mrs. E. A. Burrill, Port Jervis, N. Y.
Cecelia Morey, West Winfield, N. Y.
Mrs. E. P. Woolley, Hammonton, N. J.
M. B, Randall, Hammonton, N. J.
Wm. E. Coleman, Richmond, Va.
Benj. T. Shewbrook, Buffalo, N. Y.
Geo. W. Irwin, Buffalo, N. Y.
William S. Flanders, Coonville, Maine.
Mrs. Geo. Pratt, East Granville, Vt.
Joseph P. Smith, Clayville. N. Y.
David Mills, Hammonton, N. J.
E. J. Woolley, Hammonton, N. J.
Charles Gamage, Damariscotta.
Holloway Latham, Noank, Conn.
Phebe Cross, New Lenox, Ill.
Wm. T. Bailey, Buffalo, N. Y.
Wm. McK. Gatchell, Buffalo, N. Y.
Willie E. Tracy, Afton, Minn.
George E. Tracy, Afton, Minn.
James Pecard, Wis.
Mary K. Pecard, Wis.
Carrie Gade, New York City.
John H. Davis, Hyde Park, Penn.
Richard Harris, Williamsburg, L. I.
Daniel B. Hulburt, North Amherst, Ohio.
Eliza A. C. Hulburt, North Amherst, Ohio.
Ruby M. Pepoon, St. Kirtland, Ohio,
W. Snow, Lone Rook, Wis.
Lydia D. Wheeler, Neosho, Mo.
Mary E. Burton, Neosho, Mo.
Wm. Beales, Meney Creek, Minn.
Lemuel Parmley, Hammond, La.
Wm. Hopkins, Fremont, Ind.
J. H. Bemis, Mt. Airy, N. C.
Susan W. Bemis, Mt. Airy, N. C.
Myra N. Chase, Afton, Minn.
Prof. J. H. Cook, Columbus, Kansas.
Frances A. M. Cook, Columbus, Kansas.
Nulan M. Chase, Afton, Minn.
Leonard Newcomb, Afton, Minn.
L. G. Thomas, Lone Rock, Wis.
Mrs. L. G. Thomas, Lone Rock, Wis.
Mary Laten, Lone Rock, Wis.
Abby Newcomb, Afton, Minn.
Eliza Newcomb, Afton, Minn.
Mrs. W. Snow, Lone Roak, Wis.
W. H. Willis, Dixon, Ills.
M. A. Willis, Dixon, Ills.
Edith Mashier, Afton, Minn.
Flora Tracy, Afton, Minn.
A. Pepoon, St. Kirtland, Ohio.
Rosetta B. Harlow, Cornville, Me.
George H. Gardner, N. D., Cornville, Me.
Mary F. Hopkins, Fremont, Ind.
E. Hovey, Buffalo, Mo.
J. B. Campbell, Springfield, Mass.
Jennie Latham, Cornville, Me.
George C. Waite, Cornville, Me.
James Ormsby, Milwaukee, Wis.
Geo, W. Pryor, Mt. Airy, N. C.
Lucett E. Pryor, Mt. Airy, N. C.
M. C. Cangar, Battle Creek, Mich.
Susie Rockwell, Battle Creek, Mick.
F. L. Willis, M.D., New York City.
Jane M. Willis, New York City.
Ann Lemon Davies, Neosho, Mo.
R. Rice, Portage City, Wis.
Sophia E. Rice, Portage City, Wis.
Aleda Jones, Cornville, Me.
Alden Whiteman, Cornville, Me.
Ellen Msybee, Portage City, Wis.
Lizzie Scott, Minneapolis, Minn.
P. E. Callins, New York City.
Mary D. Andrews, Bradford, N. H.
M. Milleson, Battle Creek, Mich.
P. Brinkerhoff, Battle Creek, Mich.
Mary L. Congar, Battle Creek, Mich.
Mrs. M. J. Edison, Watseka, Ill.
Mrs. Daniel Edison, Watseka, Ill.
A. C. Edison, Watseka, Ill.
Mary A. Ross, Cornville, Me.
James N. Jones, Cornville, Me.
John Woodsum, Newfield, N. J.
Capt. E. P. Ely, Newfield, N. J.
Thorndike Leonard, Grafton, Mass.
Ruth A. Mills, Vineland, N. J.
Dr. C. Hawxhurst, Battle Creek, Mich.
J. K. Dearth, Battle Creek, Mich.
E. Stiles, Battle Creek, Mich.
Mrs. A. C. McDonald, New York City.
Wm. Rowe, Jersey City, N. J.
B. S. Walters, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
H. Angusted White, Watseka, Ill.
Mrs. F. A. Edison, Watseka, Ill.
Ira Nevens, Cornville, Me.
John Curtis, Cornville, Me.
Chauncey Barnes, Athens, Ohio.
Sarah J. Swasey, Noank, Conn.
Oliver Gamage, Damariscotta.
Mary S. Latham, Noank, Conn.
Mrs. Adeline G. Priest, Damariscotta.
Marcus Swasey, Noank, Conn.
C. H. Plumley, Buffalo, N. Y.
D. Hicks, Senora, Georgia.
E. G. Curtis, California.
John Southard, Pontiac, Mich.
Eloise O. Randall, Hammonton, N. J.
O. Mills, Hammonton, N. J.
Chauncy Paul, Vineland, N. J.
D. M. Allen, South Newbury, Ohio.
Minerva L. Green, South Newbury, Ohio.
Col. H. Winchester, Lower Lake, Cal.
Hannah F. M. Brown, Chicago, Ill.
George A. Bacon, Boston, Mass.
Nancy Brown, Pella. Iowa.
R. Carrall, Titusville, Mo.
Mrs. M. E. Wade. Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. C. M. Shaw, Pella, Iowa.
N. M. Strong, Fredericktown. Ohio.
H. S. Brown, M. D., Milwaukee, Wis.
Mattie J. B. Long. North Amherst, Ohio.
Hiram Belden, North Amherst, Ohio.
Mrs. Belden, North Amherst, Ohio.
T. Hulburt, North Amherst, Ohio.
Nellie Hulburt, North Amherst, Ohio.
B. M. Lawrence, M. D., Clinton, N. J.
P. R. Lawrence, Clinton, N. J.
John Caruthers, Baltimore, Md.
James Frist, Baltimore, Md.
Helen O. Easley, Baltimore, Md.
Clementine Averill, Milford, N. H.
Mrs. S. O. Averill, Milford, N. H.
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