e elevation of women.

Miss Couzins submitted the following, which was unanimously accepted:

_Resolved_, That in the death of Wendell Phillips the nation has
lost one of its greatest moral heroes, its most eloquent orator
and honest advocate of justice and equality for all classes; and
woman in her struggle for enfranchisement has lost in him a
steadfast friend and wise counselor. His consistency in the
application of republican principles of government brought him to
the woman suffrage platform at the inauguration of the movement,
where he remained faithful to the end. The National Woman
Suffrage Association in convention assembled, would express their
gratitude for his brave words for woman before the Legislatures
of so many States and on so many platforms, both in England and
America, and would extend their sincere sympathy to her who was
his constant inspiration to the utterance of the highest truth,
his noble wife, Ann Green Phillips.

_Resolved_, That the services of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland,
who directed the armies of the republic up the Tennessee river
and then southward to the center of the Confederate power to its
base in northern Alabama, cutting the Memphis and Charleston
railroad and thus breaking the backbone of the rebellion, entitle
her justly to the name of the military genius of the war; that
her long struggle for recognition at the hands of our Government
commends her to the sympathy of all who believe in truth and
justice; and the continued refusal of the Government to
acknowledge this woman's service, which saved to us the Union,
defeated national bankruptcy and prevented the intervention of
foreign powers, merits the condemnation of all lovers of right,
and we hereby not only send to her our loving recognition and
sympathy, but pledge ourselves to arouse this nation to the fact
of her services.[16]

The plan of work submitted by Mrs. Gougar, chairman of the committee,
was adopted.[17] This was supplemented by suggestions of the national
board as to methods of organization.[18]

The following officers were elected: president, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, N. Y.; vice-presidents-at-large, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda
Joslyn Gage, N. Y., the Rev. Olympia Brown, Wis., Phoebe W. Couzins,
Mo., Abigail Scott Duniway, Ore.; recording secretaries, Ellen H.
Sheld