ee,
composed of representative men and women of the several States, which
was the only form of National Organization until after the war.

MARY SPRINGSTEAD moved that the Convention proceed to organize a
National Woman's Rights Society.

Mrs. SMITH and Mrs. DAVIS did not like to be bound by a
Constitution longer than during the sessions of the Convention.
Both recommended the formation of State Societies.

Dr. HARRIOT K. HUNT spoke as a physician in deeming spontaneity
as a law of nature.

ERNESTINE L. ROSE declared organizations to be like Chinese
bandages. In political, moral, and religious bodies they hindered
the growth of men; they were incubi; she herself had cut loose
from an organization into which she had been born[114]; she knew
what it had cost her, and having bought that little freedom for
what was dearer to her than life itself, she prized it too highly
to ever put herself in the same shackles again.

LUCY STONE said, that like a burnt child that dreads the fire,
they had all been in permanent organizations, and therefore dread
them. She herself had had enough of thumb-screws and soul screws
ever to wish to be placed under them again. The present duty is
agitation.

Rev. SAMUEL J. MAY deemed a system of action and co-operation all
that was needed. There is probably not one woman in a thousand,
not one in ten thousand who has well considered the disabilities,
literary, pecuniary, social, political, under which she labors.
Ample provision must be made for woman's education, as liberal
and thorough as that provided for the other sex.

Mrs. C. I. H. NICHOLS favored organization as a means to collect
and render operative the fragmentary elements now favoring the
cause.

Rev. ABRAM PRYNE, in an able speech, favored National and State
organization.

The discussion was closed by the adoption of the following resolution,
introduced by Paulina Wright Davis:

_Resolved_, That this National Convention earnestly recommends to
those who are members of it from several States, and to those
persons in any or all of our States, who are interested in this
great reform, that they call meetings of the States or the
counties in which they live, certainly as often as once a year,
to consider the principles of this reform, and devise measure