She read, also, letters from Clarina Howard Nichols and Amelia Bloomer, which had been intended for the Sons' meeting.

Mrs.Lydia F.Fowler, who happened to be lecturing in Albany, spoke briefly, and Mr.May paid high tribute to the valuable work of women in temperance and anti-slavery, declaring their influence as indispensable to the state and the church as to the home.

Miss Anthony then said their treatment showed that the time had come for women to have an organization of their own; and the final outcome was the appointment of a committee, with herself as chairman, to call a Woman's State Temperance Convention.
She at once wrote to all parts of the State urging the unions to send delegates, and received many encouraging replies.

Horace Greeley wrote as follows: I heartily approve the call of the Woman's Temperance Convention, and hope it may result in good.

To this end I would venture to suggest: 1st.