mmittee, read the
tenth annual report of the American Woman Suffrage Association.
After which reports from the different States were given. At the
afternoon session, after a statement by Mrs. STONE, in regard to
the finances of the meeting, an invitation was extended to become
members of the Association by the payment of $1. Mrs. Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, of Somerville, N. J., made an address upon the
right and necessity of granting woman suffrage. Mrs. Blackwell
read from her manuscript, and made a quiet but effective appeal
for the cause.

Miss MARY GREW, of Pennsylvania, was the next speaker. She
maintained that the chief reason women were disfranchised was
that men did not think about it, and the women did not either.
She urged her hearers hereafter to think about it. This right
should be conferred on women in accordance with the principles of
this Government. But it is asked: What do you want of the ballot?
And the speaker said that she wanted it to do with it the same as
men did, and for the protection of her rights and those of other
women. She could not say how women would vote if they got the
ballot, but she supposed they would use it much as other citizens
had done.

At the evening session, before the regular programme of speeches
was begun, the resolutions[206] were read and adopted.

As the last resolution was put, Mrs. Lucy Stone arose and paid
very graceful and eloquent tributes to the memories of Lucretia
Mott, Mrs. Child, and Mr. Nathaniel White.

Marshal DOUGLASS was then introduced, and said he was not there
to make a speech, but to show his sympathy with the cause. He was
so entirely in love with it that he thought it deserved the
highest eloquence and the profoundest earnestness it could
command to advance it. He knew of no reason why a man should vote
and a woman not. The republic needed the good qualities of its
citizens to help it, and recognizing the intelligence and heart
of women he was in favor of opening every avenue by which their
moral worth could be utilized for the benefit of the country. It
was an injury to keep any person in this country from the ballot
when suffrage was universal. It was a degradation. If you want to
keep a man out of the mud, black his boots. If you want to
develop woman's b