etary, Charlotte B. Wilbour, read the
call for the meeting. The Recording Secretary read the following
report of the Executive Committee:

One year ago we formed ourselves into a League, with the declared
object of EDUCATING THIRTY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE INTO THE TRUE IDEA
OF A CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC, by means of tracts, speeches, appeals,
and petitions for emancipation. Whilst as women, we might not
presume to teach men statesmanship and diplomacy, we felt it our
duty to call the nation back to the a, b, c of human rights. In
looking over the history of the Republic we clearly saw IN
SLAVERY the cause not only of all our political and financial
convulsions, but of the terrible rebellion desolating our country
and our homes. To do this was a work of time and money; and we
were compelled to assume a debt of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS in
starting--the item of postage alone amounting to _one
thousand_--all of which we are happy to say has been duly paid.

Our thanks are due to Robert Dale Owen, Gerrit Smith, Bradhurst
Schieffelin, Wendell Phillips, Jessie Benton Fremont, Frederick
Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher, and the Hovey Trust Fund Committee
of Boston, for their timely contributions and liberal words of
cheer. But still more are we indebted to the numberless, nameless
thousands of the honest, earnest children of toil, throughout the
country, for their responses to our call, their words of hearty
God-speed, and their "mite" offerings, ranging from five cents to
five dollars; amounting in all to $5,000. From these petitions,
thus widely scattered, we have already sent to Congress the names
of over two hundred thousand men and women, demanding an
amendment of the Constitution and an act of emancipation. And
thousands are still returning to us daily, and we hope to roll up
another hundred thousand before the close of the present session.

Leaving, then, all minor questions of banks and mints and public
improvements for Congressmen to discuss at the rate of $3,000 a
year, we decided the first work to be done was to end slavery,
and ring the death knell of caste and class throughout the land.
To this end, as a means of educating the people, we sent out
twenty thousand emancipation petitions, with tracts and appeals,
into different districts of the free States, and into