lorious work of
Anti-Slavery, and for what is now being accomplished in the still
greater, because more comprehensive work for freedom contemplated
by this Society, than our honored and beloved President, Lucretia
Mott. (Applause). It is with no ordinary feelings that I
congratulate the friends of this Association on the healthful,
hopeful, animating, inspiring signs of the times. Our simple yet
imperative demand, founded upon a just conception of the true
idea of our republican government, is equality of rights for all,
without regard to color, sex, or race; and, inseparable from the
citizen, the possession of that power, that protection, that
primal element of republican freedom--the ballot.

Lucretia Mott here entered the hall, and, at the request of Mr.
Purvis, took the chair, and called for the Secretary's Report.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY said: It is my duty to present to you at this
time a written Report of all that has been done during the past
year; but those of us who have been active in this movement, have
been so occupied in doing the work, that no one has found time to
chronicle the progress of events. With but half a dozen live men
and women, to canvass the State of New York, to besiege the
Legislature and the delegates to the Constitutional Convention
with tracts and petitions, to write letters and send documents to
every State Legislature that has moved on this question, to urge
Congress to its highest duty in the reconstruction, by both
public and private appeals, has been a work that has taxed every
energy and dollar at our command. Money being the vital power of
all movements--the wood and water of the engine--and, as our work
through the past winter has been limited only by the want of it,
there is no difficulty in reporting on finance. The receipts of
our Association, during the year, have amounted to $4,096.78; the
expenditures, for lectures and conventions, for printing and
circulating tracts and documents, to $4,714.11--leaving us in
debt $617.33.

The Secretary then rapidly rehearsed the signs of progress. She
spoke of the discussion in the United States Senate on the
Suffrage bill, through three entire days, resulting in a vote of
nine Senators in favor of extending suffrage to the women as
well as black men of the District of