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* at which time some anxiety was manifested concerning the low voices of ^the^ women, and when reading or speaking was attempted, cries of louder_ louder nearly drowned them, without giving time for adapting them to the size of the house. but thanks be unto God the trembling frame rallies its strength, and the President remarked that we presented ourselves there before them as an oppressed classs with trembling frames and faltering tongues, and we did not expect to be able to speak so as to be heard ^by all at first^ but she trusted we should have the sympathy of the audience, and ^that^ they would bear with our weaknesses now in the infancy as we were of the movement, that our trust in the omnipotancy of Right was our only faith that we should succeed."

William C Nell then read an address highly commendatory of the energies and rare devotion of Woman in every good cause, illustrated by facts in proof of her equality with man_ adding that he "should never cease to award the grateful homage of his heart for their zeal in behalf of the oppressed class which he stood identified