ict that this will be witnessed before the
expiration of another decade.

Yours, to abate nothing of heart or hope,
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

Mrs. Mott never seemed more hopeful for the triumph of our
principles than on this occasion. She expressed great satisfaction
in the number of young women who for the first time that day graced
our platform.[40] Though in her eighty-sixth year, her enthusiasm
in the cause for which she had so long labored seemed still
unabated, and her eye sparkled with humor as of yore while giving
some amusing reminiscences of encounters with opponents in the
early days. Always apt in biblical quotations she had proved
herself a worthy antagonist of the clergy on our platform. She had
slain many Abimelechs with short texts of Scripture, whose defeat
was the more humiliating because received at the hand of a woman.
As she recounted in her happiest vein the triumphs of her
coadjutors she was received with the heartiest manifestations of
delight by her auditors. She took a lively interest in the
discussion of the resolutions that had been presented by the
chairman of the committee, Matilda Joslyn Gage:

_Resolved_, That a government of the people, by the people and
for the people is yet to be realized; for that which is formed,
administered and controlled only by men, is practically nothing
more than an enlarged oligarchy, whose assumptions of natural
superiority and of the right to rule are as baseless as those
enforced by the aristocratic powers of the old world.

_Resolved_, That in celebrating our third decade we have reason
to congratulate ourselves on the marked change in woman's
position--in her enlarged opportunities for education and labor,
her greater freedom under improved social customs and civil laws,
and the promise of her speedy enfranchisement in the minor
political rights she has already secured.

_Resolved_, That the International Congress[41] called in Paris,
July 20, to discuss the rights of woman--the eminent Victor Hugo,
its presiding officer--is one of the most encouraging events of
the century, in that statesmen and scholars from all parts of the
world, amid the excitement of the French Exposition, propose to
give five days to deliberations upon this question.

_Resolved_, That the majority report of