received your hearty invitation to
the Convention at Saratoga. Nothing would give us more pleasure
than to be with you on that occasion. We are all interested in
Woman's Rights, and in liberty for all humanity.

Long submission has smothered the hope and extinguished the
desire in many for any change of condition. But the light of the
nineteenth century should awake all to earnest battle for their
God-given rights. We will consult together, and if we can make up
a quartette we will try and be with you to sing once more our
songs[141] of freedom for another struggling class. With much
esteem

I remain yours truly,
JOHN W. HUTCHINSON,
(for the family).

Following the Convention the usual attacks were made by the press,
accusing the members of "infidelity and free love," which Miss Brown
refuted through _The New York Tribune_. In this way, with conventions
being continually held at the fashionable watering places[142] in the
summer, and at the center of legislative assemblies in the winter, New
York was compelled to give some attention to the question. A Woman's
Eights meeting and a hearing were of annual occurrence as regular as
the convening of the Legislature.

ALBANY CONVENTION, 1855.

The second Convention at Albany was held in the Green Street
Universalist Church, February 13 and 14, 1855. Martha C. Wright
presided; the usual speakers[143] were present, and letters of
sympathy were received from Wendell Phillips, T. W. Higginson,
Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, expressing regret at
not being able to attend.

LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY.

NEW YORK, _February 8, 1855_.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

DEAR FRIEND:--I can not be in Albany next week, because I some
time since promised to speak on Wednesday in Maine, and must keep
my engagement. Nor, indeed, can I deem it of any consequence that
I should attend your Convention. You know, already, that I am
thoroughly committed to the principle that _woman shall decide
for herself_ whether she shall have a voice and a vote in
legislation, or shall continue to be represented and legislated
for exclusively by man.

My own judgment is that woman's presence in the arena of