e of
inharmonious alliances, and made a touching appeal in behalf of
the fallen of her sex.

Mr. CHANNING said: Whenever he heard a woman, in face of existing
prejudices, speak the simple truth in regard to the social wrongs
of her sisters, as Mrs. Love had done, asking no leave of the
Convention, and making no apology for her sincere words, however
they might startle false delicacy, he felt bound as a man, and in
the name of man, to offer her the tribute of his hearty respect.

Mr. Channing presented two forms of petitions--one for property
rights, the other for suffrage--which were adopted. Rev. Lydia A.
Jenkins read a carefully prepared address. Emma R. Coe made a full
review of the laws, which, at that early day, was the burden of
almost every speech. At the close of the sixth session, the audiences
having grown larger and larger, until the spacious and beautiful
Corinthian Hall was packed to its utmost, the Convention adjourned, to
begin its real work in canvassing the State with lectures and
petitions, preparing an address to the Legislature, securing a
hearing, and holding a Convention at Albany during the coming session
of that body.

An appeal[125] to the women of the State was at once issued, and all
editors requested to publish it with the forms of petitions. The
responses came back in the form of 13,000 signatures in two months,
gathered in thirty out of the sixty counties of the Empire State. The
lecturers were: Susan B. Anthony, Mary F. Love, Sarah Pellet, Lydia A.
Jenkins, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Over sixty women were engaged in the
work of circulating the petitions.

Horace Greeley, chairman of the Committee on Industry, published in
_The New York Tribune_ the following report:

WOMAN AND WORK.

Whether women should or should not be permitted to vote, to hold
office, to serve on juries, and to officiate as lawyers, doctors,
or divines, are questions about which a diversity of opinions is
likely long to exist. But that the current rates of remuneration
for woman's work are entirely, unjustly inadequate, is a
proposition which needs only to be considered to insure its
hearty acceptance by every intelligent, justice-loving human
being. Consider a few facts:

Every able-bodied man inured to labor, though of the rudest sort,
who steps on shore in America from Europe, is worth a doll