elf a match, at least, in debate for any member of the convention.
She was equal if not identical. Whatever may be thought of her notions
or sense of propriety in her bold and conspicuous position, personally,
intellectually and socially speaking, there can be but one opinion as
to her superior energy, ability and moral courage; and she may well be
regarded as an evangel and heroine by her own sex."

The woman who advocated co-education in those days was indeed in a
"bold and conspicuous position." The resolutions were lost by a large
majority. Even if every man present had voted against them, there were
enough women to have carried them had they voted in the affirmative.
The Republican said: "If the lady members had voted so as to be heard
we know not what would have been the result; but their voices, to say
the least, have not been ordained by the Creator to be equal or
identical with man's, and are drowned by his louder sounds." Mrs.
Stanton's opinion can best be learned by an extract from a letter:

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of
intellectual stagnation, the educational convention. What an
infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order
to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the
present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots
enough in the world now without such women propagating any more....
The New York Times was really quite complimentary. Mr. Stanton
brought every item he could find about you. "Well, my dear," he
would say, "another notice of Susan. You stir up Susan, and she
stirs the world." I was glad you went to torment those devils. I
guess they will begin to think their time has come. I glory in your
perseverance. O, Susan, I will do anything to help you on. You and
I have a prospect of a good long life. We shall not be in our prime
before fifty, and after that we shall be good for twenty years at
least. If we do not make old Davies shake in his boots or turn in
his grave, I am mistaken.

The proceedings of the convention were published in full in the New
York Tribune, and Miss Anthony received letters of commendation from
Judge William Hay, Charles L. Reason, superintendent of the New York
city colored schools, and many others. William Marvin, of Binghamton,
wrote: "The sympathy of the people here, during the teachers'
association, was decidedly with