trustees urged me to take the school again, he said: "No, some one
ought to go around and set the people thinking about the laws and
it is Susan's work to do this."

Miss Anthony reached home, October 1, after seven months' constant
travel and hard work, and on the 17th went to the National Woman's
Rights Convention at Philadelphia and gave the report for New York. It
was through her determined efforts, overcoming the objection that she
was an atheist and declaring that every religion or none should have an
equal right on their platform, that Mrs. Rose was made president. She
met here for the first time Anna and Adeline Thomson, Sarah Pugh and
Mary Grew, and was the guest of James and Lucretia Mott, who
entertained twenty-four visitors in their hospitable house during all
the convention. This is the quaint invitation sent her by Mrs. Mott:
"It will give us pleasure to have thy company at 338 Arch street, where
we hope thou wilt make thy home. We shall of course be crowded, but we
expect thee and shall prepare accordingly. We think such as thyself,
devoted to good causes, should not have to seek a home." Wm. Lloyd
Garrison sat at her right hand at table and Miss Anthony at her left.
At the conclusion of each meal she had brought in to her a little cedar
tub filled with hot water and washed the silver, glass and fine china,
Miss Anthony drying them with the whitest of towels, while the
brilliant conversation at the table went on uninterrupted.

At the close of 1854, Miss Anthony decided to make a thorough canvass
of every county in New York in the interest of the petitions to the
Legislature, a thing no woman ever had dreamed of doing. Most of the
papers responded cordially to her request that they publish her
notices. Mr. Greeley wrote: "I have your letter and your programme,
friend Susan. I will publish the latter in all our editions, but return
your dollars. To charge you full price would be too hard and I prefer
not to take anything." As she had not a dollar of surplus left from her
year's work she went in debt, with her father as security, for the
hand-bills which she had printed to announce her meetings. These were
folded and addressed by her brother Merritt and a young relative, Mary
Luther, his future wife, and under the direction of her father were
sent two weeks in advance to sheriff and postmaster, accompanied by a
letter from Miss Anthony requesting that they be put up in a
conspicuous place. Sh