The assemblage was composed of as fine a body of American women as ever met in convention or anywhere else.  Among them were many noted for their culture and refinement, and for their attainments in the departments of literature, medicine, divinity and law.  As Douglass said, to which the president bowed her acquiescence, any cause which could stand the test of thirty years’ agitation, was bound to succeed.  The foremost ladies engaged in the movement today are those who initiated it in this country and have bravely and grandly upheld their cause from that day to this.  Among them we must first speak of Susan B. Anthony, one of the most sensible and worthy citizens of this republic, a lady of warm and tender heart but indomitable purpose and energy, and a resident of whom Rochester may well be proud.

Miss Anthony was very tired after the labors of this convention and was glad to remain with the invalid mother while sister Mary went to the White mountains for rest and change.  She received an invitation from the board of directors to address the Kansas State Fair in September, and also one from Col.  John P. St. John, Republican candidate for governor, to speak at a Grand National Temperance Camp Meeting near Lawrence, but was obliged to decline both.

During the summer of 1878 reports were so constantly circulated declaring woman suffrage a failure in Wyoming that Miss Anthony wrote to J.H.  Hayford, postmaster and editor of the Sentinel at Laramie City, in regard to one of these in the New York World, which paper declared it would vouch for the integrity of the writer.  She received the following answer: 

The enclosed slander upon Wyoming women I had seen before, but did not deem it worthy reply.  Some of my Cheyenne friends took pains to ascertain the writer and they assure me (and the Cheyenne papers have published the fact) that he is a worthless, drunken dead-beat, who worked out a ten days’ sentence on the streets of that city with a ball and chain to his leg.

I have not time to go into a detailed history of the practical working of woman suffrage in Wyoming, but I can add my testimony to the fact that its effect has been most salutary and beneficial.  Not one of the imaginary evils which its opponents predicted has ever been realized here.  On this frontier, where the roughest element is supposed to exist, and where women are so largely in the minority—­even here, under these adverse circumstances, woman’s influence has redeemed our politics.  Our elections are conducted as quietly and civilly as any other public gatherings.  Republicans are not always elected, the most desirable men are not always elected, perhaps; but the influence of our women is almost universally given for the best men and the best laws, and we would as soon be without woman’s assistance in the government of the family as in that of the Territory.

After having tried the experiment for