The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-21
Contributions to the Centennial.

Inc commissioners anu OJQeTS VINO
have the Centennial in charge are urg-
ing those who intend to exhibit, to send
in their contributions early, as none can
be received after February l.
The following card has just appeared
in all the daily papers of this city, un-
der the head of special notices:
To the Women Of Massachusetts, You
are earnestly requested to send speci-
mems or records of the work of women
which may contribute to the honor of
our State, to the Centennial Exhibition
at Philadelphia.
Applications will be received at this
office until February l, 1876.
Mrs. J. T. FIELDS,
Chairman Of the WomRn's Ex. Com.
Miss SUSAN HALE,
Vice Chairman.
This is supplemented by note in the
column Centennial Items" as follows:
'The Executive Committee has issued
a circular addressed to the ladies of the
State, urging those who propose TO make
exhibits to make application at once at
the office, 25 PembertOn square. The
time for receiving these applications
closes February l, with no possible
chance for extension"
Massachusetts, has one record of the
work of woman which is without 4
parallel in any State, or probably in
the world. 1t should by all means be
made conspicuous in the woman's CEN
tennial building. This is the protest of
DR.. Harriet X. Hunt, of Boston, made
every year for more than twenty years
against taxation which has no represen-
tation. 1t was sent with her taxes every
year to the City Hall, and will be found
filed among the papers of the city col
lector.
DR.. Hunt died last year, more than
sixty years of age, and to the very last
year of her life she sent her protest
Some person who is interested to "con-
tribute to the honor of our State at the
Centennial,n could no doubt get per-
mission to carry these precious papers
to Philadelphia, or they might be loaned
by the city of Boston to the Centennial,
to be returned for use at the second
Centennial, where they will certainly
hold a conspicuous rank.
Kindred to the protest of DR.. Hunt,
and contributing in the same way "tO
the honor of Massachusetts" is the ac-
tion of Abby Kelly Foster, which can
be exhibited by papers issued and now
held by the city of Worcester, for the
forced sale of the house, land, and cows
of Mrs. Foster, because she refused to
pay taxes, giving the same reason for
refusing that our ancestors gave when
they refused to pay their taxes.
The town of Glastonbury, in Con-
necticut, can rival the city of Worcester
by furnishing the legal documents un-
der which the cows and land of the Sis
ters Smith were sold, because they were
taxed without representation, just as
the Revolutionary heroes were.
The exhibition of those historic pa
pers will show how nearly allied i'm
spirit and action some American women
are to the brave men whose deeds a
hundred years ago made this Centen-
nial Celebration possible.
have had no heart to unite in the
Centennial Celebration with those who
hold all the women of the country Just
as the British government held all the
colonies. But if these revolutionary
papers, which show such kinship to the
old Revolution, can be welcomed there,
l will undertake to procure them, and
if / am permitted, will, on the 4th of
July, 1876, devote the day to their ex-
hibition and explanation. l have no
doubt that the Sisters Smith and Abby
Kelly Foster, even with the advanced
age of the former and the feeble health
of the latter, would be there to stand by
their record, and to give the particulars
of their resistance to unrepresented tax
alton, as eloquent lips will be giving
the particulars of resistance to similar
taxation made, hundred years ago, by
men whose memory we revere.
The exhibition of these papers should
be supplemented by the pamphlet of
William 1. Bowditch on 1.-THE Taxation
of Women in Massachusetts," by which
it appears that women in this State pay
taxes on hundreds of millions of dollars,
though they, like our ancestors, have
no voice in regard to it; also there should
be, with this collection, a model of
Bunker Hill Monument, whose founda-
tiOn stone was laid by Lafayette in 1925,
but which remained nearly twenty
years unfinished till the womenof Bos-
ton raised the money to complete it,
and Fanny Ellsler, a French dancing
woman, gave the proceeds of an exhibi-
tion for the capstone. These together
would make a unique exhibit, and
would certainly have much to do with
the honor of Massachusetts. = Lucy
Stone.
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