prices, assuming all responsibility, and engagements with them were considered very desirable.  Under the management of the New York bureau, Mrs. Stanton began a tour in November, 1869.  Miss Anthony at this time, while well-known from one end of the country to the other, had not gained a reputation as a platform orator.  She thoroughly distrusted her own power to make a sustained speech of an entire evening, and at all conventions had placed others on the program for the principal addresses, presided herself, if necessary, and kept everything in motion.

By the winter of 1870, however, the bureau began to receive applications from all parts of the United States for lectures from her, and Mrs. Stanton being ill for a month, Miss Anthony went as her substitute.  She proved so acceptable that in February, March and April she was engaged by the bureau for many places in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and received a considerable sum for her services, besides securing a number of subscribers and some liberal donations for The Revolution.  In her journal she speaks of the good audiences, the enthusiasm and the many prominent callers at most of the places.  At Mattoon she had a day and a night with Anna Dickinson and wrote:  “I found her the most weary and worn I had ever seen her, and desperately tired of the lecture field.  Her devotion to me is marvelous.  She is like my loving and loved child.”

At Peoria, the editor of the Democratic paper stated that the laws of Illinois were better for women than for men.  Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, whom she never had seen, was in the audience, and sent a note to the president of the meeting, asking that Miss Anthony should not answer the editor but give him that privilege.  He then took up the laws, one after another, and, illustrating by cases in his own practice, showed in his eloquent manner how cruelly unjust they were to women and proved how necessary it was that women should have a voice in making them.  He also offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:  “We pledge ourselves, irrespective of party, to use all honorable means to make the women of America the equals of men before the law.”

In Detroit Rev. Justin Fulton occupied one evening in opposition to woman suffrage, and Miss Anthony replied to him the next.  An audience of a thousand gathered in Young Men’s Hall at each meeting.  The Free Press had a most scurrilous review of the debate in which it said: 

The speakeress rattled on in this strain until a late hour, saying nothing new, nothing noble, not a word that would give one maid or mother a purer or better thought.  She drew no pictures of love in the household—­she did not seem to think that man and wife could even stay under the same roof.  She was not content that any woman should be a bashful, modest woman, but wanted them to be like her, to think as she thought....  People went there to see Susan B. Anthony, who