ich make the Five Points of New York, and looked at the
crowd of miserable people about her, she was aghast. But she took
courage when she learned that the mission-house and the long
block of tenement houses on one side of the street were built by
women, who daily feed 400 poor children, and that this was done
by women, who took up the work after the Methodist Church had
made a vain effort to do something to ameliorate the condition of
those poor starving creatures.

On motion of Mr. H. B. Blackwell a vote of thanks was tendered to
the citizens of Detroit, to the Detroit Suffrage Association and
to the press of the city for favors and courtesies shown to the
Association and its members during its meeting in this city, and
for the full and fair reports of the Convention. The Association
then adjourned.

* * * * *

The seventh Annual Meeting of the American Woman Suffrage
Association was held at New York, in 1875. There was a large
audience,[198] not less than 1,000 persons were present.

Bishop GILBERT HAVEN, President of the Society, took the chair,
and called upon Rev. Dr. THOMPSON, of Brooklyn, to open the
meeting with prayer. After which Mr. HAVEN said: In appearing
before you to-night as the official head, for a very few hours,
of the society which holds its annual meeting here, I deem it
proper to burden you before you get at the richness of the feast
that will follow, with a few thoughts that are in my own mind
connected with this reform. The inevitable effect of every true
idea is that it shakes off everything that hinders it and rises
far superior to all associations. Woman suffrage has reached that
development, and the public of America and England are beginning
to appreciate it. Now, what is this idea? It is simply this--that
the right of suffrage has no limitation with the male portion of
the human race; that it belongs alike to the whole human family.
I am a Democrat, a Jeffersonian Democrat, and I believe in the
right of every man to have a voice in public affairs. It is a
right that belongs to the very system of our government.
Monarchical governments recognize the nation as belonging to a
family; but the democratic system recognizes a government by the
people and for the people, and, if th