Samuel
J. May, Robert Purvis, Parker Pillsbury and Stephen S. Foster--remained
loyal to their standard. There was not one of the men repudiating them
who did not believe thoroughly in the principle of woman's full right
to the ballot. The women simply were sacrificed to political
expediency; set aside without a moment's hesitation in obedience to the
party shibboleth. "This is the negro's hour!"

[Footnote 36: See Appendix for this address.]

[Footnote 37: 'WHEREAS, by the war, society is once more resolved into
its original elements, and in the reconstruction of our government we
again stand face to face with the broad question of natural rights, all
associations based on special claims for special classes are too narrow
and partial for the hour; therefore, from the baptism of a second
Revolution, purified and exalted by suffering, seeing with a holier
vision that the peace, prosperity and perpetuity of the republic rest
on Equal Rights to All, we, today assembled in our Eleventh National
Woman's Rights Convention, bury the woman in the citizen, and our
organization in that of the American Equal Rights Association.

_President_, Lucretia Mott; _vice-presidents_, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Theodore Tilton, Frederick Douglass, Josephine S. Griffing, Frances D.
Gage, Robert Purvis, Martha C. Wright, Rebecca W. Mott; _corresponding
secretaries_, Susan B. Anthony, Caroline M. Severance, Mattie Griffith;
_treasurer_, Ludlow Patton; _recording secretary_, Henry B. Blackwell.]

[Footnote 38: Mr. Beecher was invited to one of the preliminary
meetings held during the summer and thus replied: "I can not come to
Syracuse, much as I should like to, for I am, from the middle of
August, a victim of ophthalmic catarrh, often called hay-fever or hay
cold, which unfits me for any serious duty except that of sneezing and
crying. That which the prophet longed for--that his eyes might become a
fountain of tears--I have, unlonged for, and I am persuaded that
Jeremiah would never have asked for it a second time, if he had but
once tried it. The visit to Gerrit Smith's is tempting but at this,
like many another good thing, I look and pass on."]

[Footnote 39: See History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. II; p. 103.]

CHAPTER XVII.

CAMPAIGNS IN NEW YORK AND KANSAS.

1867.

The first three months of 1867 were spent by Miss Anthony and a corps
of speakers in a series of conventions throughout the State of New York
in order to secure for