ns of New York were very much alike--one came with
the gloved hand, and smiled and bowed, saying, I can't let you
vote; while the other said, If you do I will blow out your
brains. The result is the same.

I look in the faces of men and marvel that they can meet us in
the way they do, when they have made such laws against us.
Clear-headed and far-sighted, they do not appear to realize that
the outrages they condemn in Kansas, they are themselves all the
while inflicting upon us. John Randolph, when the women of
Virginia were making garments for the Greeks, pointed to long
gangs of slaves, and said, "Ladies, the Greeks are at your
doors."

In addition to the annual canvass of the State, lectures from the most
popular orators were secured in the large cities. In the winter of
1856, by invitation of Miss Anthony, Theodore Parker, William Lloyd
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emerson, lectured in
Corinthian Hall, Rochester, to good audiences. In the spring of 1858,
Miss Emily Howland managed a course of lectures in Mozart Hall, New
York, in aid of "The Shirt-sewers' and Seamstresses' Union," viz:
George Wm. Curtis, "Fair Play for Women"; Lucy Stone, "Woman and the
Elective Franchise"; Hon. Eli Thayer, "Benefit to Women of Organized
Emigration"; and Rev. E. H. Chapin, "Woman and her Work." In the
autumn of the same year, through the enterprise of Elizabeth M.
Powell, Henry Ward Beecher, James T. Brady, Solon Robinson, and others
addressed a large audience in Dr. Chapin's church, Mayor Tieman
presiding, to aid in the establishment of a "Free Library for Working
Women."

In January, 1859, Antoinette L. Brown gave a series of Sunday sermons
in Rochester, and in 1860 she preached in Hope Chapel, New York, for
six months. In Rochester during the winter of 1859, Miss Anthony had a
series of lectures by George William Curtis, Wendell Phillips,
Antoinette Brown, Ernestine L. Rose, and others. The following letter
will show that Thomas Starr King was in full sympathy with our
movement:

BOSTON, _Sep. 20, 1858_.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

DEAR MADAM:--It would afford me great satisfaction to be able to
serve you as you request. I am compelled to say, however, that it
is entirely out of my power. I have already engaged for so much
work beyond my regular duties, that I shall have no leisure even
to