ill surely triumph. It is a
question of time only; not of fact. God speed the day.

The State Convention of 1860 was held in Association Hall, Albany,
February 3d and 4th, with fine audiences throughout, and the usual
force of speakers. As the outpourings of Miss Anthony's love element
all flowed into the suffrage movement, she was sorely tried with the
imperative cares that the domestic experiments of most of her
coadjutors so constantly involved. Her urgent missives coming ever and
anon to arouse us to higher duties, are quite inspiring even at this
date. In a letter to Martha C. Wright, she says:

Mr. Bingham, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, will bring
in a radical report in favor of all our claims, but previous to
his doing so he wishes our strongest arguments made before the
Committee, and he says Mrs. Stanton must come. I write her this
mail, but I wish you would step over there and make her feel that
the salvation of the Empire State, at least the women in it,
depends upon her bending all her powers to moving the hearts of
our law-makers at this time. Mr. Bingham says our Convention here
has wrought wondrous changes with a large number of the members
who attended, and so says Mr. Mayo, of the Albanians; indeed our
claims are so patent they need only to be known to be approved.
Mrs. Stanton must move heaven and earth now to secure this bill,
and she can, if she will only try. I should go there myself this
very night, but I must watch and encourage friends here. The
Earnings Bill has passed the House, and is in Committee of the
Whole in the Senate. Then a Guardianship Bill must be drafted and
put through if possible. I returned from New York last evening;
have taken the "Cooper Union," for our National Convention in
May. Saw Miss Howland; she said Mr. Beecher's lecture is to be in
this week's _Independent_. Only think how many priestly eyes will
be compelled to look at its defiled page. Theodore Tilton told me
that Mr. Beecher had had a severe battle to get into _The
Independent_.

Mrs. Stanton, in answering Miss Anthony's appeal, says:

I am willing to do the appointed work at Albany. If Napoleon says
cross the Alps, they are crossed. I can not, my dear friend,
"move heaven and earth," but I will do what I can with pen and
brain. You must come here and start me on