from door to door, only to have them shut in her face by the women she was trying to help; subjecting herself to the jeers and insults of men whom she need never have met except for this mission; held up by the press to the censure and ridicule of thousands who never had seen or heard her; misrepresented and abused above all other women because she stood in the front of the battle and offered herself a vicarious sacrifice—­can the women of New York, can the women of the nation, ever be sufficiently grateful to this one who, willingly and unflinchingly, did the hardest pioneer work ever performed by mortal?

Miss Anthony divided the winter of 1860 between the anti-slavery and the woman’s cause.  As she had very little on hand (!) she arranged another course of lectures for Rochester, inviting A.D.  Mayo, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Starr King and others.  These speakers were in the employ of the lyceum bureau, but were so restricted by it that they could give their great reform, lectures only under private management.  At the close of Emerson’s he said to Miss Anthony that he had been instrumental in establishing the lyceum for the purpose of securing a freedom of speech not permitted in the churches, but he believed that now he would have to do as much to break it up, because of its conservatism, and organize some new scheme which would permit men and women to utter their highest thought.  She was in the habit of arranging many of her woman’s rights meetings in different towns when Phillips or others were to be there for a lyceum lecture, thus securing them for a speech the following afternoon.

[Autograph:  Cordially yours, T.S.  King]

A letter received this winter from her sister Mary is interesting as showing that the belief in equal rights for women was quite as strong in other members of the family.  She had been requested by the board of education to fill the place of one of the principals who was ill, and gives the following account: 

I was willing to do the best I could to help out, so the next morning, with fear and trembling, I faced the 150 young men and women, many of whom, like their fathers and mothers before them, felt that no woman had the ability to occupy such a place.  All went well until it was noised about that I should expect as much salary as had been paid the principal.  To establish such a precedent would never do, so a man from a neighboring town was sent for post-haste, but the moment he began his administration the boys rebelled.  After slates and books had been thrown from the window and I had been obliged to guard him from their snowballs on his way home, he decided teaching, in that place at least, was not his “sphere” and refused to return.

Next morning the committee asked me to resume the management.  I answered:  “No person can fill the place of a long-tried teacher, but I in a measure succeeded—­yet not one of you would entertain the idea of paying