As slavery was abolished four years later, a considerable portion of this was used for the cause of woman.
Early in December the anti-slavery committee insisted that Miss Anthony should resume the management of their conventions, as they wished to hold a series throughout the large cities of the State and had been unable to find any one who could so successfully conduct them.

Abby Kelly Foster, though often critical and censorious, wrote her regarding one of her speeches: "It is a timely, noble, clear-sighted and fearless vindication of our platform.

I want to say how delighted both Stephen and myself are to see that you, though much younger than some others in the anti-slavery school, have been able to appreciate so entirely the genius of our enterprise." The distinguished George B.Cheever, of the Church of the Puritans in New York, one of the few orthodox clergymen who stood with the Abolitionists in those early days, wrote Miss Anthony: "May God be with you and guide and bless you in your efforts.
That is the strength we all need and must have if we accomplish anything good and permanent in this terrible conflict." [Autograph: George B.Cheever] A single instance will show how closely the question of woman's rights was connected with that of anti-slavery in the popular mind.

When Miss Anthony and Mrs.Blackwell were at Fort William Henry, at the head of Lake George, they spoke one evening in the hotel parlors.

There were a number of southerners present and many of them were delighted with the meeting, whose doctrines were entirely new to them, and made liberal contributions.