I tell you, Merritt, we have "border ruffians" here at home--a little more refined in their way of outraging and torturing the lovers of freedom, but no less fiendish.
Miss Anthony was busy through September and October securing speakers for the national convention.

She still believed that her chief strength lay in her executive ability.

Having written Lucy Stone that she could not and would not speak, the latter answered: "Why do you say the people won't listen to you, when you know you never made a speech that was not attentively heard?
All you need is to cultivate your power of expression.

Subjects are so clear to you that you can soon make them as clear to others." In response to an invitation to the Hutchinson family to sing at the convention, Asa wrote: "The time is coming, I hope, when we can do something for the glorious cause which you are so nobly advocating." John added: "It would rejoice my heart to be at the convention and help along, with the one talent God has given me, the greatest reform ever attempted by lovers of the human race." Miss Anthony asked Mary L.Booth, at that time just beginning to attract attention by her fine translations, to speak at the coming convention and received this touching response: The hope of yet aiding the cause is the polar star which guides all my efforts.

If it were possible I would do this directly, but the fashion of the times has made me a dependant and home aid would scarcely be extended to me in this.