e for president or any other
official position in any organization whatsoever."

The anniversary had been advertised for Irving Hall, but when it was
found that colored people would not be admitted to that building, it
was changed to Apollo Hall, and opened May 10 with Mrs. Stanton
presiding. At the business meeting in the afternoon, with
representatives present from nineteen States, the proposition of the
conference committee was considered. According to the report in The
Revolution there was much feeling on the part of the younger women
against any organization which did not have Miss Anthony and Mrs.
Stanton at the head, but at their earnest request, made in the interest
of harmony, it was finally voted to accept the name Union Woman
Suffrage Society, and Mr. Tilton for president.

On May 14, 1870, the Saturday after the suffrage convention, a number
of the old Equal Rights Association came together at a called meeting
in New York, which is thus described in The Revolution of May 19:

One of the most interesting as well as important events of the past
week, was the transfer of the American Equal Rights Association to
the new Union Woman Suffrage Society. This was done on Saturday in
the spacious parlors of Mrs. Margaret E. Winchester in Gramercy
Place, Mrs. Stanton occupying the chair in the absence of the
president, Lucretia Mott. Henry B. Blackweil presented this
resolution:

"WHEREAS, The American Equal Rights Association was organized in
1866 in order to secure equal rights to all American citizens,
especially the right of suffrage, irrespective of race, color, or
sex; and, _whereas_, Political distinctions of race are now
abolished by the ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments; and _whereas_, Arrangements have been made by the
formation of woman suffrage associations for the advocacy of the
legal and political rights of women as a separate question; and,
_whereas_, An unnecessary multiplication of agencies for the
accomplishment of a common object should always be avoided;
therefore

"_Resolved,_ That we hereby declare the American Equal Eights
Association dissolved and adjourned sine die."

Parker Pillsbury offered the following as a substitute:

"WHEREAS, At a meeting of the executive committee held in Brooklyn,
March 3, 1870, it was voted, on motion of Oliver Johnson, that 'it
is inexpedie