the future, and you wrong yourself by so doing.  No one will thank you hereafter.  Although you are now fifty years old and have worked like a slave all your life, you have not a dollar to show for it.  This is not right.  Do make a change.”  Her sister Mary spent all her vacation in New York one hot summer looking after the business of the paper, while Miss Anthony went out lecturing and getting subscribers.  After returning home she wrote: 

You can not begin to know how you have changed, and many times every day the tears would fill my eyes if I allowed myself a moment to reflect upon it.  I beg of you for your own sake and for ours, do not persevere in this work unless people will aid you enough to do credit to yourself as you always have done.  Make a plain statement to your friends, and if they will not come to your rescue, go down as gracefully as possible and with far less indebtedness than you will have three months from now.  It is very sad for all of us to feel that you are working so hard and being so misunderstood, and we constantly fear that, in some of your hurried business transactions, your enemies will delight to pick you up and make you still more trouble.

At this time, in a letter to Martha C. Wright, Mr. Pillsbury said:  “Susan works like a whole plantation of slaves, and her example is scourge enough to keep me tugging also.”  With her rare optimism, Miss Anthony never gives up hoping, and on January 1, 1870, writes to Sarah Pugh:  “The year opens splendidly.  December brought the largest number of subscriptions of any month since we began, and yesterday the largest of any day.  So the little ‘rebel Revolution’ doesn’t feel anything but the happiest sort of a New Year.”

A movement was begun for forming a stock company of several wealthy women, on a basis of $50,000, to relieve Miss Anthony of all financial responsibility, making her simply the business manager.  Paulina Wright Davis already had given $500, and January 1, 1870, her name appeared as corresponding editor.  Isabella Beecher Hooker took the liveliest interest in the paper and was very anxious that it should be continued.  She devised various schemes for this purpose and finally decided that her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and herself would give The Revolution their personal influence and that of their large circle of friends, by putting their names on the staff of editors.  Early in December, 1869, she sent the following: 

We will give our names as corresponding editors for your paper for one year and agree to furnish at least six articles apiece and also to secure an original article from some friend every other week during the year.  We agree to do this without promised compensation, but on the condition that you will change the name of the paper to The True Republic, or something equally satisfactory to us; and that you will pay us equally for this service according to your ability, you yourself being sole judge of that.

    H.B.  STOWE, I.B.  HOOKER.