f the
40,000 drunkards' wives in this State--of the wives of men who
are licentious--of gamblers--of the long line of those who do
nothing; and is it no light matter that all these women who
support themselves, their husbands and families, too, shall have
no right to the disposition of their own earnings? Roll up, then,
your petitions[159] on this point, if no other, and secure to
laboring women their wages at the coming session!

Now is the golden time to work! Before another Constitutional
Convention be called, see to it that the public sentiment of this
State shall demand suffrage for woman! Remember, "they who would
be free, themselves must strike the blow!"

E. CADY STANTON,
_Chairman Central Committee._

Of the canvass of 1859 and '60, we find the following letter in _The
New York Tribune_, February, 1860.

_To the Editor of The Tribune:_

SIR:--The readers of _The Tribune_ who have perused its columns
closely for the last six months will have noticed repeated
announcements of County Conventions in different parts of the
State to be addressed by certain ladies engaged in advocating
equal rights for woman. It may not be uninteresting to them to
know that every one of those appointments was filled by said
ladies. Over fifty counties of the State have been thus visited,
and petitions presented to the people for their signatures,
praying for equal property rights, and for steps to be taken to
so amend the Constitution as to secure to woman the right of
suffrage, which have been numerously signed and duly presented to
the Legislature. In the rural districts the success has been
wonderful, considering the unpopularity of the subject; our most
violent opposers being demagogical Democrats who frankly
acknowledge that if our doctrines prevail, anti-slavery,
temperance, moral reform, and Republicanism will conquer.

Large bequests have been made in the East for the furtherance of
this movement, and under the direction of a committee appointed
for that purpose, these ladies have gone forth to proclaim the
doctrine of civil and political equality for woman. No laggards
are they in their work. In the language of Mr. Greeley, they have
found a work to be done, and have gone at it