The PRESIDENT (Mrs. Mott) said: The report which we have had,
although not written, is most interesting. A great deal of it is
new to me. There are so many actively engaged in the cause, that
it is fitting that some of us older ones should give place to
them. That is the natural order, and every natural order is
divine and beautiful. Therefore, I feel glad of the
privilege--although my filling the office of President has been a
mere nominal thing--to withdraw from the chair and to yield the
place to our friend Robert Purvis, one of our Vice-Presidents.
The cause is dear to my heart, and has been from my earliest
days. Being a native of the island of Nantucket, where women were
thought something of, and had some connection with the business
arrangements of life, as well as with their homes, I grew up so
thoroughly imbued with woman's rights that it was the most
important question of my life from a very early day. I hail this
more public movement for its advocacy, and have been glad that I
had strength enough to co-operate to some extent. I have attended
most of the regular meetings, and I now feel almost ashamed, old
as I am, to be so ignorant of what has happened during the last
year. We need a paper--an organ that shall keep those who can not
mingle actively in our public labors better informed. _The
Standard_ has done much; and I find in many other papers a
disposition to do justice, to a great extent, to our cause. It is
not ridiculed as it was in the beginning. We do not have the
difficulties, the opposition, and the contumely to confront that
we had at an early day. I am very glad to find such an audience
here to-day; and far be it from me to occupy the time so as to
prevent Mr. May, Mr. Burleigh, and others, from having their
proper place.

Mr. PURVIS resumed the chair, and introduced Mrs. Stanton, who
spoke to the following resolutions:

_Resolved_, That government, of all sciences, is the most
exalted and comprehensive, including, as it does, all the
political, commercial, religious, educational, and social
interests of the race.

_Resolved_, That to speak of the ballot as an "article of
merchandise," and of the science of government as the "muddy
pool of politics," is most demoralizing to