m.... Spent the day at Mrs. Tilton's and
went with her to Mrs. Bowen's.... Listened to O.B. Frothingham,
"Justice the Mother of Wisdom."... Put some new buttons on my
cloak. This is its third winter.... Excellent audience in Friends'
meeting house, at Milton-on-the-Hudson. Visited the grave of Eliza
W. Farnham.... Went over to New Jersey to confer with Lucy Stone
and Antoinette Blackwell.... Called at Dr. Cheever's, and also had
an interview with Robert Dale Owen.... Went to Worcester to see
Abby Kelly Foster and from there to Boston.... Found Dr. Harriot K.
Hunt ready for woman suffrage work. Took dinner at Garrison's. Saw
Whipple and May, then went to Wendell Phillips'.... Spent the day
with Caroline M. Severance, at West Newton. She is earnest in the
cause of women.... Returned to New York and commenced work in
earnest. Spent nearly all the Christmas holidays addressing and
sending off petitions.

Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton entered heartily into the plans
of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton. Mr. Tilton proposed that they should
form a National Equal Rights Association, demanding suffrage for
negroes and for women, that Mr. Phillips should be its president, the
Anti-Slavery Standard its official organ; and Mr. Beecher agreed to
lecture in behalf of this new movement. Mr. Tilton came out with a
strong editorial in the Independent, advocating suffrage for women and
paying a beautiful tribute to the efficient services in the past of
those who were now demanding recognition of their political rights:

A LAW AGAINST WOMEN.--The spider-crab walks backward. Borrowing
this creature's mossy legs, two or three gentlemen in Washington
are seeking to fix these upon the Federal Constitution, to make
that instrument walk backward in like style. For instance, the
Constitution has never laid any legal disabilities upon woman.
Whatever denials of rights it formerly made to our slaves, it
denied nothing to our wives and daughters. The legal rights of an
American woman--for instance, her right to her own property, as
against a squandering husband; or her right to her own children as
against a malicious father--have grown, year by year, into a more
generous and just statement in American laws. This beautiful result
is owing in great measure to the persistent efforts of many noble
women who, for years past, both publicly a