The presence of a single policeman might have preserved perfect order, saved the reputation of our city before crowds of strangers and given hundreds an opportunity to hear.

Of course it being a meeting that women were to address, as "women have no rights in public which men are bound to maintain," there was no policeman present.
The disturbances at these conventions were not so much because the mob objected to the doctrine of woman's rights as that they were addressed by the leading anti-slavery speakers and therefore had to bear the odium attached to that hated cause.
A strong memorial, asking for equal social, civil and political rights for women and based on the guarantees of the Declaration of Independence, was prepared by a committee consisting of Miss Anthony, Mr.Phillips and seven others, to be presented to every legislature in the Union.

By the time the legislatures met in 1860, political affairs had reached a crisis and the country was in a state of unrest and excitement which made it impossible to secure consideration for this or any other question outside the vital issues that were pressing, although it was presented in several States.
Miss Anthony and Mrs.Stanton wrote an eloquent appeal to be circulated with the petitions to rouse public sentiment.

Armed with this the former began correspondence with speakers in reference to a summer and fall campaign of the state.

The diary shows that she actually found time to attend a picnic, but as she was called upon for a speech while there the day was not wholly wasted.