Chapter 1

THE CENTENNIAL YEAR--1876.

The Dawn of the New Century--Washington Convention--Congressional Hearing--Woman's Protest--May Anniversary--Centennial Parlors in Philadelphia--Letters and Delegates to Presidential Conventions--50,000 Documents sent out--The Centennial Autograph Book--The Fourth of July--Independence Square--Susan B. Anthony reads the Declaration of Rights--Convention in Dr. Furness' Church, Lucretia Mott, Presiding--The Hutchinson Family, John and Asa--The Twenty-eighth Anniversary, July 19, Edward M. Davis, Presiding--Letters, Ernestine L. Rose, Clarina I. H. Nichols--The _Ballot-Box_--Retrospect--The Woman's Pavilion 1