he loom of the weaver." At this hearing, June 27, 1867,
after Mrs. Stanton had finished her address she announced that they
would answer any questions, whereupon Mr. Greeley said in his drawling
monotone: "Miss Anthony, you know the ballot and the bullet go
together. If you vote, are you ready to fight?" Instantly she retorted:
"Yes, Mr. Greeley, just as you fought in the late war--at the point of
a goose-quill!" After the merriment had subsided, he continued: "When
should this inalienable right of suffrage commence for young men and
foreigners? Have we the right to say when it shall begin?" Miss Anthony
replied: "My right as a human being is as good as that of any other
human being. If you have a right to vote at twenty-one, then I have.
All we ask is that you shall take down the bars and let the women and
the negroes in, then we will settle all these matters." The Tribune
report said this was received with "loud and prolonged applause."

Miss Anthony continued with great vivacity: "Can you show me any class
possessed of the franchise which is shut out of schools or degraded in
the labor market, or any class but women and negroes denied any
privilege they show themselves possessed of capacity to attain? Since
you refuse to grant woman's demand, tell her the reason why. Men sell
their votes; but did any one ever hear of their selling their right to
vote? We demand that you shall recognize woman's capacity to vote." The
newspaper account ended: "She closed by demanding the right to vote for
women as an inalienable one, and predicted that from its exercise would
follow the happiest results to man, to woman, to the country, to the
world at large; and took her seat amidst warm expressions of approval."
In writing to her mother of this occasion she said:

[Illustration: Elizabeth Cady Stanton]

We had to rush up by Wednesday night's boat, without any
preparation, and passed the ordeal last night, members asking
questions and stating objections. At the close the cheerful face
and cordial hand of our good Mr. Reynolds were presented to me. Mr.
Ely also came up to be introduced, saying he knew my father and
brother well, but had never had the pleasure of my acquaintance.
Ah, when my "wild heresies" become "fashionable orthodoxies," won't
my acquaintance be a pleasure to other Rochester people, too?
George William Curtis was delighted--said the impression made upon
the members was vastly