ot a correct idea I answer that when you
make an affirmation you must accept that affirmation as the
makers of it understood it. I hold we have no right to go to any
use of legal quibbling in the matter. If we stand on simple
right, let us stand there; if on constitutional authority, we
have no right to warp that authority. So with the question of
citizenship. It does not imply a voice in the government, by any
means, to be a citizen.

Mr. BLACKWELL, on behalf of the Business Committee, offered some
resolutions.[192]

Dr. H. T. CHILD spoke upon the second resolution. As a peace man
and as a temperance man he was in favor of the resolution.

Colonel HIGGINSON said: If the resolution that has just been read
commits this body to the peace, temperance, or any other
movement, I would oppose it. Every great moral movement must
stand by itself. Napoleon said that the next worse thing to a bad
general was two good generals. I do not oppose it as an
intemperate man, nor as a war man, for I served too long in the
army not to wish for peace. I simply want my wife to vote, and
how she votes can be dictated by her conscience. I don't believe
in hitching the woman question to anything. Emerson said if you
want to succeed you must hitch your wagon to a star, but two
stars will only cause confusion.

Mr. EDWARD M. DAVIS opposed the temperance, etc., resolutions. We
had better not, he said, pass anything but suffrage on this
platform.

Mrs. GOUGH said the resolution did not indorse the peace and
temperance movements. It simply opens up a channel of education.
Woman needs the growth and development coming from the exercise
of higher powers than she now possesses. The resolutions were
then unanimously adopted.

At the afternoon session the officers for the next year were
elected. The presidency was accorded to Mrs. Lucy Stone. The
speakers at this meeting were Dr. Stone, of Michigan; Mrs. Lillie
Devereux Blake, of New York; John Cameron, of Delaware; John
Ritchie, of Kansas; Mrs. Margaret V. Longley, Mrs. M. W. Coggins,
Miss Matilda Hindman, Mrs. Cutler, Miss Mary Grew, Mrs. Lucas,
sister of John Bright, and others.

Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE, at the evening session offered resolutions
of thanks for the hospitality extended to the members of t