honest, obstinate, faithful, cross-grained and noble-minded of the famous women of America.  It only remains to add that, as “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance,” so the price of The Revolution is two dollars a year.

The Cincinnati Enquirer in a complimentary notice said:  “Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Revolution grows with each additional number more spicy, readable and revolutionary.  It hits right and left, from the shoulder and overhand, at every body and thing that opposes the granting of suffrage to females as well as males.  The Revolution is mourning over no lost cause, but is aggressive, bold and determined to win one dear to its heart.”  New York’s society paper, the Home Journal, commented:  “The Revolution is plucky, keen and wide awake, and although some of its ways are not at all to our taste, we are glad to recognize in it the inspiration of the noblest aims, and the sagacity and talent to accomplish what it desires.  It is on the right track, whether it has taken the right train or not;” while the Chicago Workingman’s Advocate declared:  “We have no doubt it will prove an able ally of the labor reform movement.”  The Boston Commonwealth observed approvingly:  “It is edited by Mrs. E.C.  Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, whose names are guarantees of ability and character.  Their effusions are able, pertinent and courageous.”

To quote from Mrs. Stanton:  “Radical and defiant in tone, it awoke friends and foes alike to action.  Some denounced it, some ridiculed it, but all read it.  It needed just such clarion notes, sounded forth long and loud each week, to rouse the friends of the movement from the apathy into which they had fallen after the war.”  Miss Anthony went to Washington to introduce the paper and returned with a list of distinguished subscribers, including President Johnson himself!  The following from Mrs. Stanton will show how criticising letters usually were answered: 

I know that you would feel that we were right if I could talk with you.  If George Francis Train had done for the negro all that he has done for woman the last three months, the Abolitionists would enshrine him as a saint.  The attacks on Susan and me by a few persons have been petty and narrow, but we are right and this nine days’ wonder will soon settle itself.  Of course, people turn up the whites of their eyes, but time will bring them all down again.  We have reason to congratulate ourselves that we have shocked more friends of the cause into life than we ever dreamed we had—­persons who never gave a cent or said a word for our movement are the most concerned lest Susan and I should injure it.  Mr. Train has some extravagances and idiosyncrasies, but he is willing to devote his energies to our cause when no other man is, and we should be foolish not to accept his aid.  To think of Boston women holding a festival to aid the Anti-Slavery Standard, while their own petitions are ignored in the Senate