le of women speaking in public. They lectured chiefly on
temperance, but asked incidentally for equal civil and political
rights. While they received from most of the papers respectful
treatment, they were sometimes viciously assailed. The Utica Evening
Telegraph gave the following false and malicious report:

Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND REV. A.L. BROWN ON THE STUMP.--Mechanics'
Hall was tolerably well filled last evening by persons wishing to
hear the above-named ladies "spout" about temperance. Seven-eighths
of the audience was composed of women, and there was noticeable an
absence of all rank, fashion and wealth. The _ladies_ proper of
Utica don't seem desirous of giving countenance to the silly
vagaries disseminated by these strong-minded women. We conceived a
very unfavorable opinion of this _Miss_ Anthony when she performed
in this city on a former occasion, but we confess that, after
listening attentively to her discourse last evening, we were
inexpressibly disgusted with the impudence and impiety evinced in
her lecture. Personally repulsive, she seems to be laboring under
feelings of strong hatred towards male men, the effect, we presume,
of jealousy and neglect. She spent some hour or so to show the
evils endured by the mothers, wives and daughters of drunkards. She
gravely announced that the evil is a great one, and that no remedy
might hopefully be asked from licentious statesmen nor from
ministers of the gospel, who are always well fed and clothed and
don't care for oppressed women. Prominent among the remedies which
she suggested for the evils which she alleges to exist, are
complete enfranchisement of women, allowing them the run of the
legislative halls, ballot-box, etc. With a degree of impiety which
was both startling and disgusting, this shrewish _maiden_ counseled
the numerous wives and mothers present to separate from their
husbands whenever they became intemperate, _and particularly not to
allow the said husbands to add another child to the family_
(probably no _married_ advocate of woman's rights would have made
this remark). Think of such advice given in public by one who
claims to be a _maiden_ lady!

Miss Anthony may be a very respectable lady, but such conversation
is certainly not calculated to enhance public regard for her....
She announced quite confidently that wive