or jealousy, any one attempts with private
innuendoes or public assaults to blacken a fair name which has long
stood before the nation representing a principle, it is an injury not
only to the individual but to the moral sense of the nation, and all
true people are interested in maintaining its integrity and power.
Susan B. Anthony has stood before this nation twenty years, earnestly
devoted to every good work. As a teacher in the schools of New York for
fifteen years, she bears from superintendents the highest testimonials
to her faithfulness and ability. Her noble labors in the temperance
cause are known throughout the State, and in association with the true
men and women who fought the anti-slavery battle, she was equally
faithful and earnest, finishing her work by getting up a petition for
the black man's freedom of 400,000 names--the largest ever presented in
Congress. For woman's enfranchisement her labors have been unremitting
and unwearied for the last eighteen years. She is a frank, generous,
self-sacrificing woman, of a kind, tender nature, firm principle, great
executive ability, and in every relation of life true as the needle to
the pole. Her motto has ever been, 'Let the weal and the woe of
humanity be everything to me; their praise and their blame of no
effect.'"]

[Footnote 50: Maine 3, Vermont 1, New Hampshire 1, Massachusetts 5,
Rhode Island 2, Connecticut 1, New Jersey 7, Pennsylvania 3, Illinois
3, Ohio 3, Wisconsin 1, Minnesota 1, Missouri 3, Kansas 2, Nebraska 1,
California 5, District of Columbia 3, Washington Territory 1-46. The
remainder of the one hundred members who joined the association that
evening resided in different parts of the State of New York.]

[Footnote 51: _President_, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. _Vice-presidents_,
Elizabeth B. Phelps, N.Y.; Anna Dickinson, Penn.; Kate N. Doggett,
Ill.; Madame Anneke, Wis.; Lucy Elmes, Conn.; Mattie Griffith Brown,
Mass.; Mrs. Nicholas Smith, Kan.; Lucy A. Snow, Maine; Elizabeth B.
Schenck, Cal.; Josephine S. Griffing, D.C.; Paulina Wright Davis, R.I.;
Mary Foote Henderson, Phoebe W. Cousins, Mo. _Corresponding
secretaries_, Laura Curtis Bullard, Ida Greeley, Adelaide Hallock.
_Recording secretaries_, Abby Burton Crosby, Sarah E. Fuller.
_Treasurer_, Elizabeth Smith Miller. _Executive committee_, Ernestine
L. Rose, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Mathilda F. Wendt, Mary F. Gilbert,
Susan B. Anthony. _Advisory counsel_, Matilda Joslyn Gage, N.Y.; Mrs.
Francis