her a costly sacrifice of popularity as an author. At a very
early period of the enterprise, Elizabeth M. Chandler published
many essays and poems that will live forever. The bravery and
persistence of Prudence Crandall in maintaining a school for
colored girls in Connecticut, in the face of terrible
persecution, is beyond praise. Maria Weston Chapman, since 1834,
has been among the leaders of the anti-slavery host, directing
their movements and stimulating them to effort. Lucretia Mott,
Sarah Pugh, Eliza Lee Follen, Abby Kelly, Mary Grew, are all
worthy of mention--there is no end to the names of excellent,
wise, courageous women who have contended nobly for the
anti-slavery faith and practice. They have been traduced,
reviled, persecuted, but nothing has deterred them from
advocating the rights of humanity.

NEW YORK STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION,

ROCHESTER, N. Y., _April 20 and 21, 1852_.

At ten o'clock a large audience assembled in Corinthian Hall. The
morning session was composed entirely of women; more than five hundred
being present. The meeting was called to order by Susan B. Anthony,
who read the following call that had been extensively circulated
throughout the State:

The women of the State of New York who desire to aid in advancing
the cause of Temperance, and are willing to labor earnestly and
truthfully for its success, are respectfully invited to meet at
Corinthian Hall in the city of Rochester on the 20th of April,
for the purpose of devising, maturing, and recommending such a
course of associated action as shall best subserve for the
protection of their interests and of society at large, too long
invaded and destroyed by legalized intemperance. Feeling that
woman has hitherto been greatly responsible for the continuance
of this vice by encouraging social drinking, and by not
sufficiently exerting her influence for its overthrow, and
realizing that upon her rest the heaviest burthens which follow
in its train, the Committee are convinced that they will be
sustained by all good men and women in urging upon the sex such
noble and energetic action as shall tend to the downfall of the
traffic in intoxicating drinks.

Arrangements have been made to render the occasion one of
interest to all friends of the cause. Addresses and
communications f