In these tours the burden of the preliminary arrangements always was assumed by Miss Anthony.  When Mrs. Stanton and she reached a place where a meeting was to be held, the former would go at once to bed, while the latter rushed to the newspaper offices to look after the advertising, then to the hall to see that all was in readiness, and usually conducted the afternoon session alone.  In the evening Mrs. Stanton would appear, rested and radiant, and read a carefully written address, while Miss Anthony, exhausted and having had no time to prepare a speech, would make a few impromptu remarks as best she could.  Then the papers would comment on the difference between the beautiful and amiable Mrs. Stanton and the aggressive and jaded Miss Anthony, and attribute it to the fact that one was a wife and the other a spinster.[40]

At Albany Miss Anthony arranged with Charles J. Folger, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, for an address by Mrs. Stanton, which was given January 13, 1867, before the joint committees, in the Assembly chamber, crowded with men and women.  She based her claim on the assumption that when a new constitution is demanded, the State is resolved into its original elements and all the people have a right to a voice in its reconstruction, supporting her position by an imposing array of legal authorities.  Of the discussion by the legislators, which followed the address, Mr. Pillsbury wrote to the Hallowells:  “Their arguments against universal suffrage Susan could have extinguished with her thimble.”

While Miss Anthony was in Albany she learned that a member from New York City had presented a bill to license houses of ill-repute, and she protested to Judge Folger.  He told her that this was a subject which could not be publicly discussed, especially by women.  She replied that if there were any attempt to pass the bill she would arouse the women and it should be discussed from one end of the State to the other.  The bill never was taken up.

In answer to an invitation to be present at Albany, Mr. Beecher sent his regrets as follows: 

I should certainly come and contribute my share of influence if I were not tied hand and foot.  I am to preside and speak on Wednesday night in my own church; on Thursday I preside and introduce a lecturer at the Academy of Music, in Brooklyn; on Friday, at Cooper Institute, I have a speech to make for the starving people of the South; and on Saturday, at the same place, a speech for the Cretans.  These are but the punctuations of my main business, which, just now, is to write a novel for Bonner, at which I am working every forenoon.  I have also a matter of two sermons every week to prepare.  I write these details, because our friend Studwell intimates to me that you feel I do not care to be identified with this movement in such a way as to take the unpopularity of the women chiefly engaged in it.  I should be unwilling to have you think so.  I have