et each tract take up some one aspect of the question and exhaust
it, none of your fly-away five or six pages but from twelve to
thirty-two, the whole case presented in all its aspects and proved
up. Nothing less than this will do much good.

Now as to church matters: The short and safe way is simply to set
them aside. If those who have outgrown the church do not introduce
the subject by treading on the old lady's corns, they can
effectually resist all interposition of shibboleths by the
followers of Pusey in all sects. Do not make the reform movement a
pretext for assaulting the church. In short, the whole question
with regard to the woman's movement is best solved by those engaged
in it going quietly and effectively on with their work. That will
soonest stop the mouths of gainsayers. "It does move, though," is
the true answer to all cavils.

I can't be at your convention, and Mrs. Greeley is overwhelmed with
moving and babies.

[Autograph:

Yours,
Horace Greeley]

While Miss Anthony was thus engaged, the State Teachers' Convention was
held in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, August 3, 1853, and true to her
resolve made the year previous she put aside everything else in order
to attend. According to the rules any one paying a dollar was entitled
to all the rights and privileges of the convention; so she paid her
dollar and took her seat. There were over 500 teachers in attendance,
two-thirds at least being women. For two entire days Miss Anthony sat
there, and during that time not a woman spoke; in all the deliberations
there was not the slightest recognition of their presence, and they did
not vote on any question, though all had paid the fee and were members
of the association. In a letter describing the occasion Miss Anthony
said: "My heart was filled with grief and indignation thus to seethe
minority, simply because they were men, presuming that in them was
vested all wisdom and knowledge; that they needed no aid, no counsel
from the majority. And what was most humiliating of all was to look
into the faces of those women and see that by far the larger proportion
were perfectly satisfied with the position assigned them."

Toward the close of the second day's session the subject under
discussion was, "Why the profession of teacher is not as much respected
as that of lawyer, doctor or minister?" After listening for several
hours, Miss Anthony felt that