I wish I could see you tonight; I'm sure I could prevail upon you.

Yours beseechingly." She got no aid from any quarter, and went on alone through the dreary winter.

To those who were to advertise her meetings she said: "I should like a particular effort made to call out the teachers, seamstresses and wage-earning women generally.

It is for them rather than for the wives and daughters of the rich that I labor." In February she returned to Rochester to look after Mr.Garrison's lecture and entertained him at her home.

As it had been decided not to hold a convention at Albany she took this opportunity to go there and present the petitions to the Legislature.