President-at-Large.
KATE M. GORDON, Corresponding Secretary.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, Recording Secretary.
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Treasurer.
LAURA CLAY, }
MARY J. COGGESHALL, } Auditors.

[24] The colored women had some excellent organizations in New
Orleans, the most notable being the Phyllis Wheatley Club, which in
addition to its literary and social features maintained a training
school for nurses, a kindergarten and a night school. It invited Miss
Anthony, Miss Blackwell and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller to address it
and they were accompanied by "Dorothy Dix," the well-known writer, a
New Orleans woman. In the large assemblage were some of the teachers
from the four colleges for colored students--Methodist,
Congregational, Baptist and the State. "Dorothy Dix" said in her brief
address that no woman in the city was more respected or had more
influence than Mrs. Sylvanie Williams, the club's president, and gave
several instances to illustrate it. After the addresses Mrs. Williams
presented Miss Anthony with a large bouquet tied with yellow satin
ribbon and said: "Flowers in their beauty and sweetness may represent
the womanhood of the world. Some flowers are fragile and delicate,
some strong and hardy, some are carefully guarded and cherished,
others are roughly treated and trodden under foot. These last are the
colored women. They have a crown of thorns continually pressed upon
their brow, yet they are advancing and sometimes you find them further
on than you would have expected. When women like you, Miss Anthony,
come to see us and speak to us it helps us to believe in the
Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, and at least for the
time being in the sympathy of woman."

[25] The important decision was made at this convention to remove the
headquarters on May 1 from New York to Warren, O., the home of the
national treasurer, Mrs. Upton. The burden of having charge of them
had borne heavily upon Mrs. Catt for the past three years and it grew
more difficult as each year she had to spend more time in field work.
Miss Gordon, the corresponding secretary, wished to remain in New
Orleans because of her mother's failing health and it was necessary to
have a national officer in charge. Mrs. Upton consented reluctantly to
assume the responsibility and only on the assurance of Miss Elizabeth