see that it is a protection and defense for the black man, giving him new dignity and self-respect, and making his rights more sacred in the eyes of his enemies.  It is mockery to tell woman she is excluded from all political privileges on the ground of respect; since the laws and constitutions for her, in common with all disfranchised classes, harmonize with the degradation of the position.

In their protest against this discrimination and their insistence that the word “sex” should be included in the Fifteenth Amendment, Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton stood practically alone.  Most of the other women allowed themselves to be persuaded by the politicians that it was their duty to step aside and wait till the negro was invested with this highest attribute of citizenship.

In the first issue of The Revolution for 1869 appeared this letter from George Francis Train, who had just been released from the Dublin jail and had returned to America: 

....I knew the load I had to carry in the woman question, but you did not know the load you had to carry in Train.  When the poor man’s horse fell and broke his leg, the crowd sympathized.  “How much you pity?” asked the Frenchman; “I pity man $20.”  I saw that the theoretical breeching had broken in Kansas, and with voice, with pen, with time and, what none of your old friends did, with purse, I threw myself into the battle.

With your remarkable industry and extraordinary executive ability you have astonished all by your success.  You remember I begged you never to stop to defend me but to push on to victory.  Now both parties are neck and neck to see who shall lead the army of in-coming negro voters.  Woman already begins to creep.  Soon she will walk and legislate.  No sneers, no low jokes, no obscene remarks are now bandied about.  The iceberg of prejudice is moving down the Gulf Stream of a wider liberty and will melt away with the bigotry of ages.  The ball is rolling down the hill.  You no longer need my services.  The Revolution is a power.  Would it not be more so without Train?  Had you not better omit my name in 1869?  Would it not bring you more subscribers, and better assist the noble cause of reform?  Although the Garrisonians have so ungenerously attacked me, perhaps they will do as much for you as I have.  If so, tell them, confidentially, the thousands I have devoted to the cause, and guarantee the haters of Train that his name shall not appear in The Revolution after January 1.  I can not better show my unselfishness than by asking you to forget my honest exertions for equal rights and equal pay for women, and to shut me out of The Revolution in future, in order to bring in again “the apostates.”

Although Mr. Train continued to supply funds and to send an occasional letter for a few months longer, his active connection with the paper ceased after its first year.  In the issue of May 1 it contained the following editorial comment: