Lucy Stone testifies at the Massachusetts State House.

In her annual petition for woman suffrage, she asks “In this very State House, how often have women looked down from the gallery while our lawmakers voted down our rights, and heard them say, ‘half an hour is time enough to waste on it’ . . . .[and then] turn eagerly to consider such a question as what shall be the size of a barrel of cranberries . . . [taking] plenty of time to consider that.”