npoint--sharp-eyed, even behind her spectacles. She presides
over the treasury, she cuts the Gordian knots, and when the
uncontrollables get by the ears at the conventions, she is the one
who straightway drags them asunder and turns chaos to order again.
In every dilemma, she is unanimously summoned. As a speaker, she is
angular and rigid, but trenchant, incisive, cutting through to the
heart of whatever topic she touches.

Mrs. Hooker wrote: "There were congratulations without stint; but
Sumner, grandest of all, approaching us said in a deep voice, really
full of emotion: 'I have been in this place, ladies, for twenty years;
I have followed or led in every movement toward liberty and
enfranchisement; but this meeting exceeds in interest anything I ever
have witnessed.'" In her weekly letter to the Independent, Mary Clemmer
wrote of this convention:

I am glad to say that it was not mongrel--in part a dramatic
reading, in part a concert, and in part an organ advertisement; but
wholly a convention whose leaders, in dignity and intellect, were
fully the peers of the men whose councils they besieged and
arraigned. There was Mrs. Stanton--smiling, serene, and
motherly--just the woman whose hand laid upon a young man's arm,
whose voice speaking to him, could do so much to hold him back from
evil. There was Susan Anthony--anxious, earnest and importunate,
sarcastic, funny and unconventional as ever. Among all the company,
"Susan" is the most violently and the most unjustly abused. To be
sure, she can be very provocative of such speech. She sometimes has
a lawless way of talking and acting, which men think wonderfully
fascinating in a belle, but utterly unforgivable in a plain,
middle-aged woman. Moreover, "Susan's" utter abnegation to her
cause, her passion for it, sometimes carries her on to "ways and
means" not altogether tenable--in fine, she will offend your taste
and mine; but this is only the outside and a very small side of
Susan Anthony. A man, and more than a man--a woman who can deny
herself, ignore herself, for a principle, for what she believes to
be the truth, whether we believe it or not, is at least entitled to
our respect.

Susan B. Anthony has a strong, earnest and loving nature; her
devotion to her sex is an utterly absorbing and absolute passion.
Born and nurtured a Quaker, she transgre