on, D. C., Julia T. Foster, Penn.; Pearl Adams, Ills.;
corresponding secretary, Rachel G. Foster (Avery), Penn.; foreign
corresponding secretaries, Caroline Ashurst Biggs, Lydia E. Becker,
England; Marguerite Berry Stanton, Hubertine Auclert, France;
treasurer, Jane H. Spofford, D. C.; auditors, Ruth C. Dennison, Julia
A. Wilbur, D. C.; chairman of executive committee, May Wright Sewall,
Ind., and vice-presidents in every State.

The financial report showed the receipts for 1884 to be in round
numbers $2,000, and a balance of $300 still remaining in the treasury.

In her address closing the convention Miss Anthony said:

The reason men are so slow in conceding political equality to
women is because they can not believe that women suffer the
humiliation of disfranchisement as they would. A dear and noble
friend, one who aided our work most efficiently in the early
days, said to me, "Why do you say the 'emancipation of women?'" I
replied, "Because women are political slaves!" Is it not strange
that men think that what to them would be degradation, slavery,
is to women elevation, liberty? Men put the right of suffrage for
themselves above all price, and count the denial of it the most
severe punishment. If a man serving a term in State's prison has
one friend outside who cares for him, that friend will get up a
petition begging the Governor to commute his sentence, if for not
more than forty-eight hours prior to its expiration, so that,
when he comes out of prison he may not be compelled to suffer the
disgrace of disfranchisement and may not be doomed to walk among
his fellows with the mark of Cain upon his forehead. The only
penalty inflicted upon the men, who a few years ago laid the
knife at the throat of the Nation, was that of disfranchisement,
which all men, loyal and disloyal, felt was too grievous to be
borne, and our Government made haste to permit every one, even
the leader of them all, to escape from this humiliation, this
degradation, and again to be honored with the crowning right of
United States citizenship. How can men thus delude themselves
with the idea that what to them is ignominy unbearable is to
women honor and glory unspeakable.[19]

An able address from Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage (N. Y.) arrived too late
for the convention. It was a denial of the superiority of man from a
sc