me to hear women
plead their own cause and insisted that this should be the program.

In this fall of 1856 Miss Anthony renewed her engagement with the
anti-slavery committee, writing Mr. May: "I shall be very glad if I am
able to render even the most humble service to this cause. Heaven knows
there is need of earnest, effective radical workers. The heart sickens
over the delusions of the recent campaign and turns achingly to the
unconsidered _whole question_." The committee answered: "We put all New
York into your control and want your name to all letters and your hand
in all arrangements. We like your form of posters; by all means let 'No
Union with Slaveholders' be conspicuous upon them." An extract from a
letter received from Mr. May, the secretary, dated October 22, shows
the estimate placed upon her services by the committee:

The Anti-Slavery Society wants you in the field. I really think the
efficiency and success of our operations in New York this winter
will depend more on your personal attendance and direction than
upon that of any other of our workers. We need your earnestness,
your practical talent, your energy and perseverance to make these
conventions successful. The public mind will be sore this winter,
disappointment awaits vast numbers, dismay will overtake many. We
want your cheerfulness, your spirit--in short, yourself.

[Footnote 22: In 1854 Judge William Hay brought out a new edition of
his romance, Isabel D'Avalos, the Maid of Seville, with a sequel, The
Siege of Granada, dedicated as follows:

TO
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
whose earnestness of purpose, honesty of intention,
unintermitted industry, indefatigable perseverance,
and extraordinary business-talent,
are surpassed only by the virtues which have illustrated her life,
devoted, like that of Dorothea Dix,
TO THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY.

In a letter to her he said: "I have placed in my will a bequest to you,
the only person to whose care I would willingly entrust them, that at
my death the manuscripts and plates of this work are to be your
absolute property. I sincerely desire and faintly hope that you may
derive some pecuniary benefit from them."]

[Footnote 23: Three years before Mr. Greeley had written to the
suffrage convention at Cleveland: "I recognize most thoroughly the
rig