n--His
letter to the ladies--The origin of Woman Suffrage in New Jersey--A
paper read by William A. Whitehead before the Historical
Society--Defects in the Constitution of New Jersey--A singular
pamphlet called "Eumenes"--Opinion of Hon. Charles James Fox--Mr.
Whitehead reviewed 441

CHAPTER XIII.

MRS. STANTON'S REMINISCENCES.

Mrs. Stanton's and Miss Anthony's first meeting--An objective view of
these ladies from a friend's standpoint--A glimpse at their private
life--The pronunciamentos they issued from the fireside--Mrs. Wright,
Mrs. Seward, Mrs. Worden, Mrs. Mott, in council--How Mrs. Worden
voted--Ladies at Newport dancing with low necks and short sleeves, and
objecting to the publicity of the platform--Senator Seward discussing
Woman's Rights at a dinner-party--Mrs. Seward declares herself a
friend to the reform--A magnetic circle in Central New York--Matilda
Joslyn Gage: her early education and ancestors--A series of
Anti-Slavery Conventions from Buffalo to Albany--Mobbed at every
point--Mayor Thatcher maintains order in the Convention at the
Capital--Great excitement over a fugitive wife from the insane
asylum--The Bloomer costume--Gerrit Smith's home 456

CHAPTER XIV.

NEW YORK.

First Steps in New York--Woman's Temperance Convention, Albany,
January, 1852--New York Woman's State Temperance Society, Rochester,
April, 1852--Women before the Legislature pleading for a Maine
Law--Women rejected as Delegates to Men's State Conventions at Albany
and Syracuse, 1852; at the Brick Church Meeting and World's
Temperance Convention In New York, 1853--Horace Greeley defends the
Rights of Women In _The New York Tribune_--The Teachers' State
Conventions--The Syracuse National Woman's Rights Convention,
1852--Mob in the Broadway Tabernacle Woman's Rights Convention through
two days, 1853--State Woman's Rights Convention at Rochester,
December, 1853--Albany Convention, February, 1854, and Hearing before
the Legislature demanding the Right of Suffrage--A State Committee
appointed--Susan B. Anthony General Agent--Conventions at Saratoga
Springs, 1854, '55, '59--Annual State Conventions with Legislative
Hearings and Reports of Committees, until the War--Married Women's
Property Law, 1860--Bill before the Legislature Granting Divorce for
Drunkenness--Horace Greeley and Thurlow