more than I could bear; I sprung to my feet and quoted:  ’I came into the world not to bring peace but a sword....  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites that devour widow’s houses!’ Read the New Testament, and say if Christ was not an agitator.  Who is this among us crying ’peace, peace, when there is no peace?’—­and sat down.”  It is a matter of regret that she did not tell what became of the gentleman from Virginia.

Miss Anthony writes to Mary Hallowell, during these days:  “I am more tired than ever before and know that I am draining the millpond too low each day to be filled quite up during the night, but I am having fine audiences of thinking men and women.  Oh, if we could but make our meetings ring like those of the anti-slavery people, wouldn’t the world hear us?  But to do that we must have souls baptized into the work and consecrated to it.”

Mrs. Blackwell’s domestic affairs will not permit any further lecturing and Miss Anthony says in a letter to her:  “O, dear, dear, how I do wish you could have kept on with me.  I can’t tell you how utterly awful is the suspense these other women keep me in:  first, they can’t, then they can, then they won’t unless things are so and so; and when I think everything is settled, it all has to be gone over again.  The fact is I am not fit to deal with anybody who is not terribly in earnest.”  To this she replies:  “Dear child, I’m sorry I can not help you, but pity a poor married woman and forgive.  The ordeal that I have been going through, four sewingwomen each giving about two days, no end of little garments to alter and to make, with a husband whose clothes as well as himself have been neglected for three months, the garden to be covered up from the frost, shrubs to transplant, winter provisions to lay in and only one good-natured, stupid servant to help with all.  This, Susan, is ‘woman’s sphere.’”

As Miss Anthony never approved of a woman’s neglecting her household for any purpose, she urged no more but sought elsewhere for assistance.  There was not one unmarried woman except herself in all the corps of available speakers and, while some of them could make a trip of a few weeks, not one could be depended on for steady work.  In October she secured Mrs. Tracy Cutler for awhile, and later Frances D. Gage, J. Elizabeth Jones and Lucy N. Coleman, but was obliged to hold many meetings alone.  These were continued at intervals through the fall of 1859 and the winter and spring of 1860, and numerous pages of foolscap are still in existence containing a carefully kept account of the expenses.  Each meeting was made partly to pay for itself, the lecturers received $12 a week, Miss Anthony herself taking only this sum, and it may be believed that no more extended and effective propaganda work ever was accomplished with the same amount of money.  While this was being done, she also assisted Clarina Howard Nichols and Susan E. Wattles to plan an important campaign in Kansas with money furnished from the Jackson fund.