ty of the 'disfranchised,' and found
ourselves quartered on the enemy the next morning as the sun rose in
all its resplendent glory. Although trunk after trunk--not of
gossamers, laces and flowers, but of suffrage ammunition, speeches,
petitions, resolutions, tracts, and folios of The Revolution--had been
slowly carried up the winding stairs of the Atlantic, the brave men and
fair women, who had tripped the light fantastic toe until the midnight
hour, slept heedlessly on, wholly unaware that twelve apartments were
already filled with the strong-minded invaders.... The audience
throughout the convention was large, fashionable and as enthusiastic as
the state of the weather would permit."

The Fourth of July was celebrated by the association in a beautiful
grove in Westchester county, Miss Anthony, Mrs. Stanton, Judge E.D.
Culver and others making addresses. Weekly meetings of as many of its
members as were in New York were held at the Woman's Bureau, a large
number of practical questions relating to women were brought forward,
and there was constant agitation and discussion. A note from the tax
collector called forth this indignant answer from Miss Anthony:

I have your polite note informing me that as publisher of The
Revolution, I am indebted to the United States in the sum of $14.10
for the tax on monthly sales of that journal. Enclosed you will
find the amount, but you will please understand that I pay it under
protest. The Revolution, you are aware, is a journal the main
object of which is to apply to these degenerate times the great
principle for which our ancestors fought, that taxation and
representation should go together. I am not represented in the
United States government, and yet it taxes me; and it taxes me,
too, for publishing a paper the chief purpose of which is to rebuke
the glaring inconsistency between its professions and its
practices. Under the circumstances, the federal government ought to
be ashamed to exact this tax of me....

On September 10 Miss Anthony attended the Great Western Woman Suffrage
Convention at Chicago, where she spoke several times and was cordially
received. She was the guest of Mrs. Kate N. Doggett, founder of the
Fortnightly Club. From here she went to the St. Louis convention,
October 6 and 7, which was especially distinguished because of the
resolutions presented by Francis Minor, a prominent lawyer of that
city, with an