had a crowded house, while the conservatives had
scarce fifty people. The general feeling was hostile to the action of
the Convention. This same battle on the temperance platform was fought
over and over in various parts of the State, and the most deadly
opposition uniformly came from the clergy, though a few noble men in
that profession ever remained true to principle through all the
conflicts of those days, in the anti-slavery, temperance, and woman's
rights movements.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S LETTER, FROM THE "CARSON LEAGUE."

BUFFALO, _July 28, 1852_.

DEAR LEAGUE:--Permit me to say a few words to your readers,
relative to the plan of action, recommended by the "Women's New
York State Temperance Society." We have now three agents
lecturing, who are endeavoring, by a novel application of woman's
"marvelous gift of tongue," to rouse their sisters of Western New
York, to render active service in aid of the Temperance cause.
Woman has so long been accustomed to "non-intervention" with the
business of law-making--so long considered it men's business to
regulate the Liquor Traffic, that it is with much cautiousness
that she receives the new doctrine which we preach; the doctrine
that it is her right and her duty to speak out against the liquor
traffic and all men and institutions that in any way sanction,
sustain, or countenance it; and since she can not vote, to duly
instruct her husband, father, or brother how she would have him
vote, and if he longer continue to misrepresent her, take the
right to march to the ballot-box, with firm, unwavering tread,
and deposit a vote indicative of her highest ideas of practical
temperance. For women longer to submit to be ruled by men and
legislators who sanction license laws, is to act the part of
slaves and cowards. Men are just beginning to see that they must
carry this temperance question into politics, but can see no
farther than to vote for a rum-drinking President,
Vice-President, and Congressmen. If they can place temperance men
in those offices which directly control the license system of our
own State, they seem to think they need look to, nor care for,
the habits and principles of the men who fill the National
offices. And it is for woman now, in the present Presidential
campaign, to