conscience!" The landlord failing to have her called in time for the
train, she complains:

There is no promptness, no order, no system down here. The
institution of slavery is as ruinous to the white man as to the
black.... Three northern servants, engineered by a Yankee
boarding-house keeper, would do more work than a dozen of these
slaves. The free blacks, who receive wages, do no more than the
others. Such is the effect of slavery upon labor. I can understand
why northern men make the most exacting overseers; they require an
amount of work from the slave equal to what they would from the
paid white laborer of the north.

From Baltimore Miss Anthony went to Philadelphia, where she found
herself among friends, and as wherever two or three were gathered
together in those days they always decided to hold a woman's rights
meeting, James Mott sallied forth to arrange for one in the Quaker
city, and she comments in her diary: "O, how good it seems to have some
one take the burden off my shoulders!" They visited, made excursions,
attended anti-slavery meetings and also spiritual seances, which were
then attracting great attention. Of the many discussions which arose as
to existence or non-existence after death, she writes: "The negative
had reason on their side; not an argument could one of us bring, except
an intuitive feeling that we should not cease to exist. If it be true
that we die like the flower, what a delusion has the race suffered,
what a vain dream is life!"

Miss Anthony went from here to New York, Brooklyn and Albany, and then
to her old home at Battenville, stopping with relatives and friends at
each place and speaking in the interest of the petitions. An example of
the courage required to go into a strange town and arrange for a
meeting may be given by an extract from one of many similar letters:

I speak in this village to-morrow night; had written a gentleman
but he was away, so I had all the work to do myself. I first called
on the Methodist minister to get his church. I stated my business
and he asked: "What are you driving at? Do you want to vote and be
President?" I answered that I did not personally aspire to the
presidency, but when the nation decided a woman was most competent
for that office, I would be willing she should fill it. "Well,"
said he, "if the Bible teaches anything, it is that women should be
quiet keepers at h