CHAPTER VI.
TEMPERANCE AND TEACHERS' CONVENTIONS.
1852--1853.
Miss Anthony came away from the Syracuse convention thoroughly convinced that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all others, was the right of suffrage.
She saw that it was by the ballot men emphasized their opinions and enforced their demands; she realized that without it women exercised small influence upon law-makers and had no power to reward friends or punish enemies.

A sense of the terrible helplessness of being utterly without representation came upon her with crushing force.

The first great cause of the injustice which pressed upon women from every point was clearly revealed to her and she understood, as never before, that any class which is compelled to be legislated for by another class always must be at a disadvantage.

She went home with these thoughts burning in her soul, and again took up her work for temperance, but much of her enthusiasm was gone.

She felt that she was dealing with effects only and was shut out from all influence over causes.