ay, "Here come
the women who are going to do something, and not talk."

There are those, too, who find fault with the freedom of our
platform, who stand aloof and criticise, fearful of being
involved in something that they can not fully endorse. Forgetting
that, as Macaulay says, "Liberty alone can cure the evils of
liberty," they fear to trust on the platform all who have a word
to say. But we have invited all to come forward and speak, and
not to stand aside and afterward criticise what has been said. We
trust that those present who have an opinion, who have a word to
say, whether they have ever spoken before or not, will speak now.
If they disapprove of our resolutions, if they disapprove of
anything that is said on this platform, let them oppose if they
can not unite with us. (Applause.)

Susan B. Anthony was then introduced, and read the following report:

For our encouragement in laboring for the elevation of woman, it
is well ever and anon to review the advancing steps. Each year we
hail with pleasure new accessions to our faith. Strong words of
cheer have come to us on every breeze. Brave men and true, from
the higher walks of literature and art, from the bar, the bench,
the pulpit, and legislative halls, are ready now to help woman
wherever she claims to stand. The Press, too, has changed its
tone. Instead of ridicule, we now have grave debate. And still
more substantial praises of gold and silver have come to us. A
gift of $5,000 from unknown hands; a rich legacy from the coffers
of a Boston merchant prince--the late Charles F. Hovey; and, but
a few days ago, $400,000 from Mr. Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, to
found a college for girls, equal in all respects to Yale and
Harvard.

We had in New York a legislative act passed at the last session,
securing to married women their rights to their earnings and
their children. Other States have taken onward steps. And, from
what is being done on all sides, we have reason to believe that,
as the Northern States shall one by one remodel their
Constitutions, the right of suffrage will be granted to women.
Six years hence New York proposes to revise her Constitution.
These should be years of effort with all those who believe that
it is the right and the duty of every citizen of a State to have