You will read the appeal, you can fit the address to it and you will do it grandly.

Don't hesitate but, in the name of everything noble, go forward and you shall have our warmest sympathy." It was very hard to coax Miss Anthony into a speech in those days and she finally persuaded the Reverend Antoinette to make the address.
There was a mass-meeting of all the temperance organizations in the State at Albany, January 21, and as the women made no attempt to take part in the men's meetings there was no disturbance.

History is silent as to what the men did at that time, but the women held crowded sessions in the Baptist church, and in the Assembly chamber at night, Miss Anthony presiding, and a number of fine addresses were made.

The rules were suspended one morning and the ladies invited to the speaker's desk.

Mrs.Vaughn read Mrs.Stanton's eloquent appeal praying the Legislature to do one of two things: either give women a vote on this great evil of intemperance, or else truly represent them by enacting a Prohibitory Law.