Oppression and war will be heard of no more,
Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore,
Conventions will then be a useless expense,
For we'll all go free-suffrage a hundred years hence.

"A Hundred Years Hence", st. 5. Note: "This song was written in 1852, at Cleveland, OH, expressly for John W. Hutchinson. Several of the friends were staying with Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, on their way to the Akron convention, where it was first sung."—History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3 (Rochester, NY: Charles Mann, 1887) pp. 38–39. Compare: Thomas Jordan, "Drinking Song"