nd.
Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the individual;
their tendency is to sink the individual in the mass, to
sacrifice his rights, and immolate him on the altar of some
fancied good.

It is not to organization that I object, but to an _artificial
society_ that must prove a burden, a clog, an incumbrance, rather
than a help. Such an organization as now actually exists among
the women of America I hail with heartfelt joy. We are bound
together by the natural ties of spiritual affinity; we are drawn
to each other because we are attracted toward one common
center--the good of humanity. We need no external bonds to bind
us together, no cumbrous machinery to keep our minds and hearts
in unity of purpose and effort we are not the lifeless staves of
a barrel which can be held together only by the iron hoops of an
artificial organization.

The present aspect of organizations, whether in Church, or State,
or society at large, foretokens dissolution. The wrinkles and
totterings of age are on them. The power of organization has been
deemed necessary only because the power of Truth has not been
appreciated, and just in proportion as we reverence the
individual, and trust the unaided potency of Truth, we shall find
it useless. What organization in the world's history has not
encumbered the unfettered action of those who created it? Indeed,
has not been used as an engine of oppression.

The importance of this question can hardly be duly magnified. How
few organizations have ever had the power which this is destined
to wield! The prayers and sympathies of the ripest and richest
minds will be ours. Vast is the influence which true-hearted
women will exert in the coming age. It is a beautiful
coincidence, that just as the old epochs of despotism and
slavery, Priestcraft and Political intrigue are dying out, just
as the spiritual part of man is rising into the ascendency,
Woman's Rights are being canvassed and conceded, so that when she
becomes his partner in office, higher and holier principles of
action will form the basis of Governmental administration.

ANGELINA GRIMKE WELD.

The reading of Mrs. Weld's letter was followed by a spirited
discussion, resulting in the continuance of the Central Committ