has achieved an evanescent reputation by her strenuous endeavors to defy nature.  Not one woman in a hundred cares to vote, cares aught for the ballot, would take it with the degrading influences it would surely bring....  Old, angular, sticking to black stockings, wearing spectacles, a voice highly suggestive of midnight Caudleism at poor Anthony, if he ever comes around, though he never will.  If all woman’s righters look like that, the theory will lose ground like a darkey going through a cornfield in a light night.  If she had come out and plainly said, “See here, ladies, see me, I am the result of twenty years of constant howling at man’s tyranny,” there would never have been another “howl” uttered in Detroit.  Or, if she had plainly said, in so many words, “I am going to lecture on bosh, for the sake of that almighty half-dollar per head—­take it as bosh,” people would have admired her candor, though forming the same conclusions without her assistance....

Myra Bradwell, the able editor of the Chicago Legal News, paid the following tribute:  “Miss Anthony is terribly in earnest on this suffrage question.  We fully agree with her that the great battle-ground in the first instance should be in Congress....  She is now fifty, and the best years of her life have been devoted solely to the cause of woman.  She has never turned aside from this object but has always been in the field, defending her principles against all assaults with an ability which has not only won the admiration of her friends but the respect of her enemies.”

She made many new acquaintances on this tour, and one entry in the diary is:  “Quite a novel feature this—­to have people quarrel as to who shall have the pleasure of entertaining me as their guest!” She returned to New York on Saturday, April 30, and on Sunday the diary says:  “Spent the day at Mrs. Tilton’s and heard Beecher preach a splendid sermon on ‘Visiting the Sins of the Parents on the Children.’”

Various friends of the woman suffrage cause had decided that something must be done to unite the two national organizations.  An editorial in the Independent to this effect was followed by a call for a conference to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, April 6, signed by Theodore Tilton, Phoebe Cary, Rev. John Chadwick and a number of others.  The meeting was duly held, and the venerable Lucretia Mott, who now rarely left home, came all the way from Philadelphia to use her influence toward a reconciliation.  Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton were lecturing in the West and the former telegraphed:  “The entire West demands united national organization for the Sixteenth Amendment, this very congressional session, and so does Susan B. Anthony.”  Mrs. Stanton wrote to the conference:  “I will do all I can for union.  If I am a stumbling-block I will gladly resign my office.  Having fought the world twenty years, I do not now wish to turn and fight those who have so long stood together through evil and good report.  I should be glad to have all united, with Mr. Beecher or Lucretia Mott for our general....  I am willing to work with any and all or to get out of the way entirely, that there may be an organization which shall be respectable at home and abroad.”