unmistakable evidence of a rich nature that has been repressed
and tortured. She is the type of a large class that will develop
into beautiful, symmetrical characters when the shackles are
broken and women are free.

Conventions and organizations have so multiplied that it would
require a volume to give their history. The chief of these are
the great Northwestern and Pacific Slope Associations. Added to
these are the State Societies in nearly all the Northern and
Middle States. A State Society was organized in Richmond,
Virginia, in April, 1870, by Matilda Joslyn Gage, a woman of wide
historical information. Lectures have been given in several of
the Southern States by individuals.

If the notices of women are by far more numerous than those of
men,[134] it is not from forgetfulness of their services, for I
credit them with all sincerity of motive, and nobleness in the
wish for our enfranchisement. I have given, as briefly as
possible, the two decades from 1850 to 1870. I have set down
nothing in malice, and what is omitted must be charged to want of
space and time. When the full history of this work is written,
differences which have retarded its progress, and the wide range
of action and reaction can be gone into if the historian so
wills. I have endeavored to keep this report free from
sectionalism and faction, believing that the _finale_ would bring
together all parties in one glad day of rejoicing. That there
will be political parties in the future, with women, as with men,
there can be no question; but that the sexes will have a
purifying influence, each upon the other, is already conceded
even by the opposers.

In closing this _resume_ permit me to say that this meager
outline, condensed from notes made from year to year, in no way
satisfies the writer, but has been given by the earnest
solicitations of friends, who wished that the steady progress of
the cause might be marked in this retrospective hour. There is
much that should have been embodied in this sketch of the past,
especially the resolutions which have marked varying phases of
the work, and which seemed like a divine inspiration in their
comprehensive grasp and far-reaching thought, on this the last
great question of reform.

Mrs. Mott rose at the conclusi