r, and I now know her to be honest, honorable, generous
and above all petty spites and jealousies." Mrs. Hooker was so
delightfully disappointed in the two ladies that she became at once and
forever their staunchest friend and advocate. To Caroline M. Severance
she wrote:

I have studied Miss Anthony day and night for nearly a week, and I
have taken the testimony of those who have known her intimately for
twenty years, and all are united in this resume of her character:
She is a woman of incorruptible integrity and the thought of guile
has no place in her heart. In unselfishness and benevolence she has
scarcely an equal, and her energy and executive ability are bounded
only by her physical power, which is something immense. Sometimes
she fails in judgment, according to the standard of others, but in
right intentions never, nor in faithfulness to her friends. I
confess that after studying her carefully for days, and under the
shadow of ----'s letters against her, and after attending a
two-days' convention in Newport engineered by her in her own
fashion, I am obliged to accept the most favorable interpretation
of her which prevails generally, rather than that of Boston. Mrs.
Stanton, too, is a magnificent woman, and the truest, womanliest
one of us all. I have spent three days in her company, in the most
intense, heart-searching debate I ever undertook in my life. I have
handled what seemed to me to be her errors without gloves, and the
result is that I love her as well as I do Miss Anthony. I hand in
my allegiance to both as the leaders and representatives of the
great movement.

Mrs. Hooker set about arranging a mass convention at her home in
Hartford, Conn., and upon Miss Anthony's expressing some doubt as to
being present, she wrote: "Here I am at work on a convention intended
chiefly to honor Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, and behold the
Quakeress says maybe she can not come! I won't have the meeting if you
are going to flunk. It has been a real consolation to me in this
wearisome business to think you would for once be relieved from all
responsibility and come as orator and guest. Don't fail me."

The convention, which closed October 29, was a great success and a
State society was formed with a distinguished list of officers. The
Hartford Post gave considerable space to Miss Anthony's address,
saying:

Miss Anthony is a reso