I know of no two more pertinacious incendiaries in the whole country; nor will they themselves deny the charge.

In fact, this noise-making twain are the two sticks of a drum for keeping up what Daniel Webster called 'the rub-a-dub of agitation.'" On March 19, 1860, Mrs.Stanton presented her address to a joint session of the Legislature at Albany, occupying the speaker's desk and facing as magnificent an audience as ever assembled in the old Capitol.
It was a grand plea for a repeal of the unjust and oppressive laws relating to women, and it was universally said that its eloquence could not have been surpassed by any man in the United States.

A bill was then in the hands of the judiciary committee, simply an amendment of the Property Law of 1848, to which Andrew J.Colvin objected as not liberal enough.

Miss Anthony gave him a very radical bill just introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature, which he examined carefully, adding several clauses to make it still broader.

It was accepted by the committee, composed of Messrs.