ssion was called to order at 7-1/2 o'clock. The
President in the chair. The audience was very large, the hall being
uncomfortably full, and the attention unremitting and profound. The
most excellent order was preserved; the meeting, in this respect,
furnishing a marked and gratifying contrast with the evening sessions
of the last two years at Mozart Hall.

Mrs. Rose, from the Business Committee, presented a series of
resolutions[167], which were read by Miss Anthony. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton was the first speaker of the evening. By particular request
she gave the same address recently delivered before the Legislature at
Albany, and was followed by Ernestine L. Rose with one of her logical
and convincing arguments.

Susan B. Anthony then read the following letters:

LETTER FROM HON. GERRIT SMITH.

PETERBORO, _May 3, 1860_.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON:

MY VERY DEAR COUSIN:--It is proper that one of the first letters
which I write in my new life, should be to the cousin whose views
are most in harmony with my own. I call it my new life, because I
have come up into it from the gates of death. May it prove a new
life also, in being a far better and nobler one than that which I
had hitherto lived!

I wake up with joy to see my old fellow-laborers still in their
work of honoring God, in benefiting and blessing man. Your own
zeal for truth is unabated. I see that you are still laboring to
free the slave from his chains, and woman from her social, civil,
and political disabilities; and to preserve both man and woman
from defiling and debasing themselves with intoxicating liquors
and tobacco. Precious reforms are these which have enlisted your
powers! It is true that they do not cover the whole ground of
religious duty. But it is also true that the religion, which,
like the current one, opposes or ignores them all, is spurious;
and so, too, that the religion which opposes or ignores any one
of them is always sadly defective, if not always spurious.

Please add the inclosed draft for $25 to the fund for serving the
cause of woman's rights. To no better cause can money, time, or
talents be appropriated. I am in high, health, compared with any
I have enjoyed since the succession of my frightful diseases,
begun two and a half years ago. My nerves,