I heartily approve the call of the Woman’s Temperance Convention,
    and hope it may result in good.  To this end I would venture to
    suggest: 

1st.  Hold an informal and private meeting before you attempt to meet in public.  There select your officers, your business committees, etc., so that there shall be no jarring when you assemble in public.

2d.  Have your addresses and resolves carefully prepared beforehand.  Make them very short and pointed.  Have them in type so that they may appear promptly and simultaneously in the daily papers.  If you will send us a copy of them the night before we will endeavor to print them with our proceedings of the meeting received by telegraph.

    3d.  Be sure that your strongest thinkers speak and that the weaker
    forbear, and that extraneous matters, so far as possible, are let
    alone.

It will be seen that by adopting these shrewd political methods there would not be much left for the convention proper to do except listen to the speeches, but it would be hard to compress into smaller space more sensible advice.  Mrs. Nichols wrote her:  “It is most invigorating to watch the development of a woman in the work for humanity:  first, anxious for the cause and depressed with a sense of her own inability; next, partial success of timid efforts creating a hope; next, a faith; and then the fruition of complete self-devotion.  Such will be your history.”  From Mrs. Stanton came cheering words:  “I will gladly do all in my power to help you.  Come and stay with me and I will write the best lecture I can for you.  I have no doubt a little practice will make you an admirable speaker.  Dress loosely, take a great deal of exercise, be particular about your diet and sleep enough.  The body has great influence upon the mind.  In your meetings, if attacked, be cool and good-natured, for if you are simple and truth-loving no sophistry can confound you.  As for my own address, if I am to be president it ought perhaps to be sent out with the stamp of the convention, but as anything from my pen is necessarily radical no one may wish to share with me the odium of what I may choose to say.  If so, I am ready to stand alone.  I never write to please any one.  If I do please I am happy, but to proclaim my highest convictions of truth is always my sole object.”

After weeks of hard work, writing countless letters, taking numerous trips to various towns, and making almost without assistance all the necessary arrangements, the convention assembled in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, April 20, 1852.  The morning audience was composed entirely of women, 500 being in attendance.  Miss Anthony opened the meeting, read the call, which had been widely circulated, and in a clear, forcible manner set forth the object of the convention.  The call urged the women to “meet together for devising such associated action as shall be necessary for the