He gladly gave me any help I needed, from time to time, in looking up the laws, and was very desirous that whatever I gave to the public should be carefully prepared.
Miss Anthony printed twenty thousand copies of this address, laid it on the desk of every member of the legislature, both in the Assembly and Senate, and, in her travels that winter, she circulated it throughout the State.

I am happy to say I never felt so anxious about the fate of a speech since.
The first woman's convention in Albany was held at this time, and we had a kind of protracted meeting for two weeks after.

There were several hearings before both branches of the legislature, and a succession of meetings in Association Hall, in which Phillips, Channing, Ernestine L.
Rose, Antoinette L.Brown, and Susan B.Anthony took part.

Being at the capital of the State, discussion was aroused at every fireside, while the comments of the press were numerous and varied.

Every little country paper had something witty or silly to say about the uprising of the "strong-minded." Those editors whose heads were about the size of an apple were the most opposed to the uprising of women, illustrating what Sidney Smith said long ago: "There always was, and there always will be a class of men so small that, if women were educated, there would be nobody left below them." Poor human nature loves to have something to look down upon! Here is a specimen of the way such editors talked at that time.