She could
only sit and glare.

At length Susan's case came up for consideration, and the congress
committed the crowning act of rashness and, without a thought of
the consequences, made an everlasting enemy of Susan Anthony by
ruling her out of the convention as a delegate. This was the
unkindest cut of all. "A lone, lorn old critter," with whom
everything "goes contrairie," was denied the solace of being
counted the one-two-hundreth part of a man by a labor convention!
We may well believe that Susan wept with sorrow at the blindness of
man, and our sympathy if not our tears is freely offered. But so
goes the world. This is not the first time that "man's inhumanity
to woman" has made Miss Anthony mourn and, as it is not her first
rebuff, we counsel her to seek admission again to the ranks of her
sex, and cease to cast reproach upon it by struggling to be a man.

When some of the women remonstrated, the editor replied that he had not
supposed there was one woman in Utica who believed in equal rights.

Paulina Wright Davis had been actively arranging for a great convention
in New York to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the first woman's
rights convention in Massachusetts, which was held at Worcester, in
October, 1850. That one had been managed almost wholly by Mrs. Davis
and she had presided over its deliberations, therefore it seemed proper
for her to be the central figure in celebrating its second decade. The
New England suffrage people declined to take part in this meeting and,
for some reason, Mr. Tilton's Union Society was decidedly averse to it.
Mrs. Davis finally became ill from anxiety and overwork and joined her
entreaties to Mrs. Stanton's that Miss Anthony should drop her lectures
and come to New York; so she started for that city September 30,
determined that Mrs. Davis' scheme should not be a failure. The entries
in her journal give some idea of her energetic and unwearied action:

As soon as I reached New York I went to Dr. Lozier's for lunch,
then to see Mrs. Phelps. All in despair about the decade meeting.
Went at once to consult Alice and Phoebe Cary; from them to Mrs.
Winchester, found her just home from Europe; then to Julia Brown
Bemis, and thence to Murray street to see Mr. Studwell; then to
Tenafly on the evening train.... Back to New York the next morning,
to Tilton's, to Curtis', to Mrs. Wilbour's, and th