Anthony’s strong, rich voice, her powerful command of language and her intensity of feeling in regard to her subject, it may be imagined that her speeches were eloquent appeals and roused to action both her friends and her enemies.  Some meetings were successful financially, others failures, and her report to the committee in the spring showed that she lacked $1,000 of having paid the total expenses, including salaries of speakers.  A few of the committee were inclined to the opinion that meetings should not have been held in places where they would not pay, but that noble woman, Maria Weston Chapman, said:  “My friends, if all you say is true, regarding this young woman’s business enterprise, practical sagacity and platform ability, I think $1,000 expended in her education and development for this work is one of the best investments that possibly could have been made.”  At the unanimous request of the committee Miss Anthony remained in office and during the year canvassed the entire state with her speakers.  Mr. May wrote:  “We cheerfully pay your expenses and want to keep you at the head of the work.”

[Autograph: 

  Yours in affectionate remembrance,
  MW Chapman”]

In March she was invited to go to Bangor, Me., and speak on woman’s rights, in a course which included Henry Wilson, Gough, Phillips, Beecher and other notables.  For this she was paid $50 and expenses, the first large sum she had received for a lecture, and it gave her much hope and courage.  While in Maine she spoke a number of times, going from point to point in sleigh or wagon through snow, slush and mud.  The press was very complimentary.[25]

In August Miss Anthony attended the State Teachers’ Convention at Binghamton, and here created another commotion by introducing the following: 

    Resolved, That the exclusion of colored youth from our public
    schools, academies, colleges and universities is the result of a
    wicked prejudice.

Resolved, That the expulsion of Miss Latimer from the normal school at Albany, when after six months of successful scholarship it was discovered that colored blood coursed in her veins, was mean and cruel.

Resolved, That a flagrant outrage was perpetrated against the teachers and pupils of the colored schools of New York City, in that no provision was made for their attendance at the free concerts given to the public schools.

Resolved, That the recent exclusion of the graduates of the colored normal school of New York City, from the public diploma presentation at the Academy of Music, was a gross insult to their scholarship and their womanhood.

Resolved, That all proscription from educational advantages and honors, on account of color, is in perfect harmony with the infamous decision of Judge Taney—­“that black men have no rights which white men are bound to