itted to the voters of the State in order that
they might decide?

It required an hour and a half to take the vote, as most of the members
found it necessary to explain why they voted as they did. While it was
being taken President Choate left his chair and talked earnestly with
many of the delegates--probably about the weather--stopping occasionally
to receive the approving smiles of the "Antis." When his name was called
for the last vote he recorded himself against the amendment, and the
great battle was over![99] In favor of submission 58, opposed 98.

No question before the convention had attracted so much attention
throughout the State. The New York Recorder led the newspapers which
championed the submission of the amendment, and Harper's Weekly and the
Evening Post were prominent among the opposition, a mighty descent from
the days when they were under the editorial management of George William
Curtis and William Cullen Bryant. The day after the vote was taken the
suffrage committee closed its Albany headquarters in the Capitol and the
ladies returned to their homes. They had raised $10,000 and expended it
in the most economical manner; they had given a year of the hardest and
most conscientious work; and they did not regret a dollar of the money
or a day of the time.[100] In her president's report Mrs. Jean Brooks
Greenleaf said:

These days will never be forgotten by the trio of the State
committee who daily met to work and plan--to make the campaign
"bricks" without financial "straw." No one with a heart will recall
the pecuniary distress of last winter without a shudder, and to
those who had, what was in their estimation, a cause at stake
precious as life itself, the outlook was often well nigh
disheartening.... Could the full history of the past winter's work
be given, the doubts expressed of woman's desire for the ballot
would be set at rest forever. No more pathetic stories are told of
the struggle for liberty in the days of the Revolution than could
be told of the women of New York in this campaign....

In closing, we come to the name of one who, we all know, is the
inspired leader of women up the heights of honor, purity and
self-devotion--Susan B. Anthony. To her marvellous energy and
resolution we owe both the conception and the success of this
wonderful campaign. In her seventy-fifth year she started out as
one of