Susan and I, though members of the Equal Rights Association, do many things outside that body for which no one is responsible.  The idea of starting a paper under its auspices, or as an organ for it, never entered our minds.  We went to Kansas as individuals; personal friends outside that association gave us money to go and contributed the funds to start a paper.  We object to that resolution of censure, first, because we were outside its province; second, because it was an outrage to repudiate Susan and me, who have labored without cessation for twenty years and had just returned from a hard three months’ campaign.  For any one to question our devotion to this cause is to us amazing.  The treatment of us by Abolitionists also is enough to try the souls of better saints than we.  The secret of all this furor is Republican spite.  They want to stave off our question until after the presidential campaign.  They can keep all the women still but Susan and me.  They can’t control us, therefore the united effort of Republicans, Abolitionists and certain women to crush us and our paper.

In showing how the women were sacrificed, The Revolution said: 

Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Gerrit Smith and Wendell Phillips, with one consent, bid the women of the nation stand aside and behold the salvation of the negro.  Wendell Phillips says, “One idea for a generation,” to come up in the order of their importance.  First negro suffrage, then temperance, then the eight-hour movement, then woman suffrage.  Three generations hence, woman suffrage will be in order!  What an insult to the women who have labored thirty years for the emancipation of the slave, now when he is their political equal, to propose to lift him above their heads.  Gerrit Smith, forgetting that our great American idea is “individual rights,” on which Abolitionists have ever based their strongest arguments for emancipation, says:  “This is the time to settle the rights of races; unless we do justice to the negro we shall bring down on ourselves another bloody revolution, another four years’ war, but we have nothing to fear from woman, she will not avenge herself!” Woman not avenge herself?  Look at your asylums for the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the insane, and there behold the results of this wholesale desecration of the mothers of the race!  Woman not avenge herself?  Go into the streets of your cities at the midnight hour, and there behold those whom God meant to be queens in the moral universe giving your sons their first lessons in infamy and vice.  No, you can not wrong the humblest of God’s creatures without making discord and confusion in the whole social system.

In regard to the bitter persecution waged upon the two women, Ellen Wright Garrison said in a letter to Miss Anthony:  “This sitting in judgment upon those whose views differ from our own, pouring vials of wrath on their heads and calling in the outside and prejudiced public to help condemn, is unwise and