torial from the New York Sun:

The fact that Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Susan B. Anthony
were the only ladies admitted upon the platform at Cooper
Institute, may be regarded as not only committing them to Governor
Seymour's views, but as committing the approaching Democratic
convention, in whose behalf he spoke, to the doctrine of woman
suffrage. Therefore, whether Miss Anthony is received as a delegate
to the July convention, it is clear that female suffrage must be
incorporated among the planks of the national Democratic platform;
and if Governor Seymour, who is a remarkably fine-looking man, is
nominated, he will receive the undivided support of the women of
the North, which will more than compensate for the loss of the
negro vote of the South.

At the meeting of the Equal Rights Committee, held in New York, a
half-sarcastic resolution was offered by Theodore Tilton and adopted by
the committee declaring that as "Miss Susan B. Anthony, through various
published writings in The Revolution, had given the world to understand
that the hope of the woman's rights cause rests more largely with the
Democratic party than with any other portion of the people; therefore
she be requested to attend the approaching National Democratic
Convention in New York for the purpose of fulfilling this cheerful hope
by securing in the Democratic platform a recognition of woman's right
to the elective franchise."

Miss Anthony ignored the sarcasm, and with Mrs. Stanton at once
prepared a memorial.[46] The convention met and dedicated Tammany Hall
on July 4, 1868. This was the first time since the war that the
southern Democrats had joined with the northern in national convention
and, conservative as they naturally were and separated as they had been
from all the woman's rights agitation which had kept the North stirred
up for the past decade, one can imagine their amazement when Miss
Anthony, Mrs. Stanton and a few other ladies walked into the great hall
and occupied reserved seats at the left of the platform. Their memorial
was sent to the president, Horatio Seymour, and by him handed to the
secretary, who read it amid jeers and laughter. It was then referred to
the resolution committee where it slept the sleep of death. The special
correspondent of the Chicago Republican thus describes the scene when
the memorial was presented:

Susan B. Anthony appeared to the convention lik