estrictions as it was
thought unwise to accept. All the matter submitted would be subject to
"editorial revision," even though the association paid for the space,
and as Mr. Pillsbury had resigned the editorship and Mr. Powell had
taken it, they decided they could not trust the "editorial revision."
The women had done so vast an amount of gratuitous work for the
Standard in past years, that they felt themselves entitled to more
liberal treatment. The editor had written, only a short time before, of
the excellent service Miss Anthony had rendered in straightening out
the accounts. She also had secured numerous subscribers, sending in as
many as thirty at a time from some of her meetings.

For the purpose of arousing public interest in the approaching New York
Constitutional Convention, an equal rights meeting was held at Albany,
in Tweddle Hall, November 21. To make this a success Miss Anthony spent
many weeks of hard work. The diary notes that, among other things, she
directed and sent out 1200 complimentary tickets.[38] At this Albany
convention political differences began to appear. Mrs. Stanton
complimented the Democrats for the assistance they had rendered;
Frederick Douglass objected to their receiving any credit, branding
their advocacy as a trick of the enemy, and there were frequent sharp
encounters. Miss Anthony made an extended speech, of which there is but
this newspaper report:

She referred to the assertion of Horace Greeley, that while women
had the abstract right to suffrage the great majority of them did
not wish it. So they told us when we said the negro ought to be
free; he did not wish it; he was contented and happy. As we replied
relative to the negro, so do we regarding women. If they do not
desire the right to vote, it is an evidence of the depth to which
they have been degraded by its deprivation. A woman clerk, in the
New York Mercantile Library, told her that during the war the
salaries of the male clerks all had been raised, but not those of
the women, and a man's, who held an inferior position, had been
increased to $300 more than her own. The clerk said that if she had
been a voter she did not believe such injustice would have been
perpetrated. In Rochester the salaries of the male teachers in the
public schools were raised $100 per annum while the small salaries
of the women were still further reduced. In Auburn $200 additional