. Garrison was absent, the first rift had
been made in the love and gratitude in which for many years Mr.
Phillips had been held, and a vague feeling of distrust and alarm was
beginning to creep over the women, lest, after all these years of
patient work, they were again to be sacrificed.

Miss Anthony presented a ringing set of resolutions, and splendid
addresses were given by Mrs. Stanton, Theodore Tilton and Henry Ward
Beecher. Mr. Phillips then made a long and eloquent speech which was
rapturously received by the audience, but which filled the leaders with
sadness, because of the skillful evasion of the disputed question which
they never had expected from this staunch friend. Miss Anthony read an
address to Congress[36] which was adopted with unanimous approval. At
the close of the convention a business session was held, at which she
offered a resolution declaring that, since by the act of emancipation
and the Civil Rights Bill, the negro and woman now had the same civil
and political status, alike needing only the ballot, therefore the time
had come for an organization which should demand universal suffrage;
and that hereafter their society should be known as the American Equal
Rights Association. She supported this by an able speech in which she
said:

For twenty years we have pressed the claims of woman to the right
of representation in the government. Each successive year after
1848, conventions were held in different States, until the
beginning of the war. Up to this hour we have looked only to State
action for the recognition of our rights; but now, by the results
of the war, the whole question of suffrage reverts back to the
United States Constitution. The duty of Congress at this moment is
to declare what shall be the basis of representation in a
republican form of government. There is, there can be, but one true
basis, viz.: that taxation and representation must be inseparable;
hence our demand must now go beyond woman--it must extend to the
farthest limit of the principle of the "consent of the governed,"
as the only authorized or just government. We therefore wish to
broaden our woman's rights platform and make it in name what it
ever has been in spirit, a human rights platform. As women we can
no longer claim for ourselves what we do not for others, nor can we
work in two separate movements to get the ballot for the two
disfranchis