our charge a libel upon
womanhood, and I know that if we were voters you would not _dare_
to utter it."

A gentleman from Michigan--Mr. Curtis--called me to order, saying
my remarks were personal. "You, sir, sat still and didn't call
this man to order while he stood up and insulted all womanhood!"
I exclaimed, vehemently. "Prohibition is the question before the
house," said the gentleman, "and the lady should confine herself
to the resolution." "That is what I am doing, sir. I am talking
about prohibition, and the only way possible to make it succeed."

The chair sustained me amid cries of "good!" "good!" but I had
become too thoroughly self-conscious by this time to be able to
say anything further, and, with a bow to the chairman whom I had
before forgotten to address, I tremblingly took my seat.

A resolution was passed, after a long and stormy debate,
declaring it the duty of the legislature to empower women to vote
on all questions connected with the liquor traffic; and I, as its
author, was chosen a committee to present the same for
consideration at the coming legislative session. Woman suffrage
gained a new impetus all over the Northwest through this victory.
Everybody congratulated its advocates, and the good minister who
had unwittingly caused the commotion seized the first opportunity
to explain that he had always been an advocate of the cause. I
was by this time so thoroughly advertised by the abuse of the
press that I had no difficulty in securing large audiences in all
parts of the Pacific Northwest.

I was chosen in April, 1872, as delegate to the annual meeting of
the National Association, held in New York the following month.
Horace Greeley received the nomination for the presidency at the
Cincinnati Liberal Republican Convention while I was on the way;
and when I reached New York I at first threw what influence I had
in the Association in favor of the great editor. But Miss
Anthony, who knew Mr. Greeley better than I did, caused me to be
appointed chairman of a committee to interview the reputed
statesman and officially report the result at the evening
session. Miss Anthony and Mrs. Jane Graham Jones of Chicago were
the other members of this committee. We obtained the desired
interview, of which it only needs to be sai