of the times?" I am sad always, under
all my folly;--this cruel tide of war, sweeping off the fresh,
young, brave life to be dashed out utterly or thrown back shattered
and ruined! I know we all have been implicated in the "great
wrong," yet I think the comparatively innocent suffer today more
than the guilty. And the result--will the people save the country
they love so well, or will the rulers dig the nation's grave?

Will you not write to me, please, soon? I want to see a touch of
you very much.

[Autograph:

Very Affectionately Yours
Anna E. Dickinson]

Early in September Greeley writes her: "I still keep at work with the
President in various ways and believe you will yet hear him proclaim
universal freedom. Keep this letter and judge me by the event."

Miss Anthony thus lectures Mrs. Stanton because she has a teacher and
educates her children at home: "I am still of the opinion that whatever
the short-comings of the public schools your children would be vastly
more profited in them, side by side with the very multitude with whom
they must mingle as soon as school days are over. Any and every private
education is a blunder, it seems to me. I believe those persons
stronger and nobler who have from childhood breasted the commonalty. If
children have not the innate strength to resist evil, keeping them
apart from what they must inevitably one day meet, only increases their
incompetency."

In the summer of 1862 Miss Anthony attended her last State Teachers'
Convention, which was held in Rochester, where she began her labors in
this direction. In 1853 she had forced this body to grant her a share
in their deliberations, the first time a woman's voice had been heard.
For ten years she never had missed an annual meeting, keeping up her
membership dues and allowing no engagement to interfere. Year after
year she had followed them up, insisting that in the conventions women
teachers should hold offices, serve on committees and exercise free
speech; demanding that they should be eligible to all positions in the
schools with equal pay for equal work; and compelling a general
recognition of their rights. All these points, with the exception of
equal pay, had now been gained and there was much improvement in
salaries.

Her mission here being ended, she turned her attention to other fields;
but for the privileges which are enjoyed by the women teachers of the
present day, they are ind