eetings and in all your hopes for the upspringing of the good seed
sown by the faithful joint labors of you and your gallant little band.
We have made the following a committee of arrangements for the annual
meeting: Garrison, Phillips, Quincy, Johnson and Susan B. Anthony."

So she at once girded on her armor and began to prepare for the May
anniversary and, being determined the National Woman's Rights
Convention should not be omitted this year, she conducted also an
extensive correspondence in regard to that. Referring to all this
drudgery Lucy Stone urged: "Don't do it; quit common work such as a
common worker could do; and don't mourn over us and our babies. We are
growing workers. I know you are tired with your four months' work, but
it is not half so hard as taking care of a child night and day. I shall
not assume any responsibility for another convention till I have had my
ten daughters." But Miss Anthony knew that this "common work," this
hiring halls, raising money and advertising meetings was just what
nobody else could or would do. She understood also that while the other
women were at home "growing workers," somebody must be in the field
looking after the harvest.

Abby Hutchinson, the only sister in the famous family of singers, wrote
from their Jersey home, Dawnwood: "I want so much to help you; I have
longed to do some good with my voice but public life wears me out very
fast." Nevertheless she came and sang for them. Mrs. Stanton and Mrs.
Brown Blackwell brought new babies into the world a few weeks before
the convention, to Miss Anthony's usual discomfiture. She wrote to the
latter: "Mrs. Stanton sends her love to you and says if you are going
to have a large family, go right on and finish up as she has done. She
has only devoted eighteen years out of the very heart of her existence
to this great work. But I say, stop now."

The convention in Mozart Hall followed close upon the Anti-Slavery
Anniversary, Miss Anthony presided and there were the usual
distinguished speakers, Phillips, Pillsbury, Garrison, Douglass,
Higginson, Lucretia Mott, Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Rose, and, for the first
time, George William Curtis spoke on the woman's rights platform.
Notwithstanding this array of talent, the convention through all its
six sessions was threatened with a mob, encouraged by the Herald and
other New York papers. The disturbance at times was so great the
speakers could not be heard, even Curtis was greeted with h