for this work is one of the best investments that possibly
could have been made." At the unanimous request of the committee Miss
Anthony remained in office and during the year canvassed the entire
state with her speakers. Mr. May wrote: "We cheerfully pay your
expenses and want to keep you at the head of the work."

[Autograph:

Yours in affectionate remembrance,
MW Chapman"]

In March she was invited to go to Bangor, Me., and speak on woman's
rights, in a course which included Henry Wilson, Gough, Phillips,
Beecher and other notables. For this she was paid $50 and expenses, the
first large sum she had received for a lecture, and it gave her much
hope and courage. While in Maine she spoke a number of times, going
from point to point in sleigh or wagon through snow, slush and mud. The
press was very complimentary.[25]

In August Miss Anthony attended the State Teachers' Convention at
Binghamton, and here created another commotion by introducing the
following:

_Resolved_, That the exclusion of colored youth from our public
schools, academies, colleges and universities is the result of a
wicked prejudice.

_Resolved_, That the expulsion of Miss Latimer from the normal
school at Albany, when after six months of successful scholarship
it was discovered that colored blood coursed in her veins, was mean
and cruel.

_Resolved_, That a flagrant outrage was perpetrated against the
teachers and pupils of the colored schools of New York City, in
that no provision was made for their attendance at the free
concerts given to the public schools.

_Resolved_, That the recent exclusion of the graduates of the
colored normal school of New York City, from the public diploma
presentation at the Academy of Music, was a gross insult to their
scholarship and their womanhood.

_Resolved_, That all proscription from educational advantages and
honors, on account of color, is in perfect harmony with the
infamous decision of Judge Taney--"that black men have no rights
which white men are bound to respect."

After considerable uproar these were referred to a select committee on
which were placed two ladies, Mary L. Booth and Julia A. Wilbur, both
strong supporters of Miss Anthony. The committee brought in a majority
report in favor of the resolutions but this make-shift minority report
was adopted: "In our opinion the colored children of the State should