indestructible possibilities of good in every human soul."

The Convention then adjourned _sine die_.

THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION was held in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 22 and 23, 1870.

Col. T. W. HIGGINSON, first Vice-President, called the meeting to
order, and addressed the audience substantially as follows:

REMARKS OF COLONEL HIGGINSON.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I heartily congratulate you that you are
again called together in this goodly city of Cleveland.

We stand to-day at the cradle of the Association, a child one
year old, to celebrate its first birthday. There is nothing in
the record of the past year that we have to blush for, or that we
have to undo. If our work has been limited in its success, it has
been because we have been limited in means. If we have not
transformed the entire world it has been because the world has
not poured its money into our coffers. But the great fact
remains, as much as if we had accomplished a work ten times as
large, that we have a great central organization, to which ten
States have given a cordial and hearty support. Congress at
Washington is but a small body. The amount it annually does and
spends is nothing to that done and spent by the State
governments. It is the keystone of our great national arch, the
string upon which all State governments are strung. And so this
Association is the keystone upon which all the auxiliary State
organizations depend.

We meet here to-day, in a delegate meeting, for full and free
discussion; none are proscribed, none prescribed. If there is
anything new to be done, now is the time to do it; if anything
wrong was done last year, now is the time to rectify it. This is
the great, golden opportunity of this Association. It is especial
cause for rejoicing that it is organized for a specific purpose,
to secure the ballot to women, everything else being held for the
time in abeyance. Early in the movement in behalf of women the
broad platform of "woman's rights" was adopted. This was all
proper and right then, but the progress of reform has developed
the fact that suffrage for woman is the great key that will
unlock to her the doors of social and political equality. This
should be the first point of concentrated at