The last night Gerrit Smith addressed the mob from the steps of the hotel, after which they gave him three cheers and dispersed in good order.
When proposing for the Mayor a vote of thanks, at the close of the convention, Mr.Smith expressed his fears that it had been a severe ordeal for him to listen to these prolonged anti-slavery discussions.

He smiled, and said: "I have really been deeply interested and instructed.
I rather congratulate myself that a convention of this character has, at last, come in the line of my business; otherwise I should have probably remained in ignorance of many important facts and opinions I now understand and appreciate." While all this was going on publicly, an equally trying experience was progressing, day by day, behind the scenes.

Miss Anthony had been instrumental in helping a much abused mother, with her child, to escape from a husband who had immured her in an insane asylum.

The wife belonged to one of the first families of New York, her brother being a United States senator, and the husband, also, a man of position; a large circle of friends and acquaintances was interested in the result.

Though she was incarcerated in an insane asylum for eighteen months, yet members of her own family again and again testified that she was not insane.