"It does move, though," is the true answer to all cavils.
I can't be at your convention, and Mrs.Greeley is overwhelmed with moving and babies.
[Autograph: Yours, Horace Greeley] While Miss Anthony was thus engaged, the State Teachers' Convention was held in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, August 3, 1853, and true to her resolve made the year previous she put aside everything else in order to attend.

According to the rules any one paying a dollar was entitled to all the rights and privileges of the convention; so she paid her dollar and took her seat.

There were over 500 teachers in attendance, two-thirds at least being women.

For two entire days Miss Anthony sat there, and during that time not a woman spoke; in all the deliberations there was not the slightest recognition of their presence, and they did not vote on any question, though all had paid the fee and were members of the association.

In a letter describing the occasion Miss Anthony said: "My heart was filled with grief and indignation thus to seethe minority, simply because they were men, presuming that in them was vested all wisdom and knowledge; that they needed no aid, no counsel from the majority.