at higher, holier light which would have lifted me to
the sublime height where now stand Garrison, Phillips and all that
small but noble band whose motto is 'No Union with Slaveholders.'"

She was at this time becoming deeply interested in politics but had not
dreamed that she herself ever would enter the ranks of political
speakers. In October she complains of her restlessness and her anxiety
to go home, but she is not strong and knows it would be impossible to
keep up the treatment there, so she says: "Because of this, and because
of my great desire to be able to do what now seems my life work, I have
decided to stay awhile longer." But in this same letter she adds: "If
Merritt is sick and needs me I will go to him at once. My waking and
sleeping thoughts are with him." This young brother had insisted upon
going West to seek his fortune and was taken ill in Iowa. At one time
when he asked for some money he had saved, and his father, thinking he
was too young to be trusted, did not let him have it, Miss Anthony
wrote: "It is too bad to treat him like a child. Let him make a blunder
even; it will do much more to develop him than the judgment of father,
mother and all the brothers and sisters. He ought to have the
privilege, since it is clearly his right, to invest his money exactly
as he pleases and I hope he will yet be trusted at least with his own
funds."

To a woman who is publishing a paper and complains that her efforts are
neither helped nor appreciated, she replies: "Every individual woman
who launches into a work hitherto monopolized by men, must stand or
fall in her own strength or weakness. Whatever we manufacture we must
study to make it for the interest of the community to purchase. If we
fail in this, we must improve the work.... Each of us individually has
her own duties to perform and each of us alone must work out her life
problem."

In October the National Woman's Rights Convention was held in
Cincinnati but she was unable to attend. It was the only one she missed
from 1852 until the breaking out of the war, when they were abandoned
for a number of years, and she felt so distressed that she wrote to
Rochester and persuaded her sister Mary to get leave of absence from
school and go in her place. We know she has a very pretty bonnet this
fall, for she says: "It is trimmed with dark green ribbon, striped with
black and white, and for face trimming, lace and cherry and green
flowers with the least speck