This destroyed all plans for her work with the anti-slavery committee, as no inducement could have been offered which would cause her to abandon these woman's rights meetings after having advertised them.

She requested Mr.May to release her and he did so, stipulating however that she should inform him as soon as she was at liberty.

She begged various speakers to assist her but received no favorable replies.

Lucy Stone wrote, "I wish you had a good husband; it is a great blessing." Her intense desire for help may be judged by a letter to Martha C.Wright in regard to a meeting which had been announced for Auburn: "Mrs.Gage has gone; now, dear Mrs.Wright, won't you give an address?
Be brave and make this beginning.

You can speak so much better, so much more wisely, so much more everything than I can; do rejoice my heart by consenting.