At the beginning of 1870, a stock company was formed and the Woman’s Journal established in Boston.  Mrs. Livermore merged her Chicago paper, the Agitator, into this new enterprise (as she had proposed to do into The Revolution the year previous) removed to Boston and became editor-in-chief; Lucy Stone was made assistant editor and H.B.  Blackwell business manager.  This paper secured the patronage of all those believers in the rights of women who were not willing to accept the bold, fearless and radical utterances of The Revolution.  The latter had exhausted the finances of its friends and had no further resources.  The strain upon Miss Anthony, who alone was carrying the whole burden, was terrible beyond description.  Never was there a longer, harder, more persistent struggle against the malice of enemies, the urgent advice of friends, against all hope, than was made by this heroic woman.  As the inevitable end approached she wrote of it to Mrs. Stanton, who answered:  “Make any arrangement you can to roll that awful load off your shoulders.  If Anna Dickinson will be sole editor, I say, glory to God!  Leave me to my individual work, the quiet of my home for the summer and the lyceum for the winter....  Tell our glorious little Anna if she only will nail her colors to that mast and make the dear old proprietor free once more, I will sing her praises to the end of time.”

Anna Dickinson very wisely concluded that she was not suited for an editor.  Laura Curtis Bullard was much interested in reform work, possessed of literary ability and very desirous of securing The Revolution.  Theodore Tilton, who was editing the New York Independent and the Brooklyn Daily Union, promised to assist her in managing the paper.  Miss Anthony at last agreed to let her have it, and on May 22, 1870, the formal transfer was made.  She received the nominal sum of one dollar, and assumed personally the entire indebtedness.  She had this dollar alone to show for two and a half years of as hard work as ever was performed by mortal, besides all the money she had earned and begged which had gone directly into the paper.  During that time $25,000 had been expended, and the present indebtedness amounted to $10,000 more.

Miss Anthony could not view this giving up of The Revolution so philosophically as did Mrs. Stanton; she was of very different temperament.  Into this paper she had put her ambition, her hope, her reputation.  The stronger the opposition, the firmer was her determination not to yield, nor was it a relief to be rid of it.  She would have counted no cost too great, no work too hard, no sacrifice too heavy, could she but have continued the publication.  Not only was it a terrible blow to her pride, but it wrung her heart.  She could bear the triumph of her enemies far better than she could the giving up of the means by which she had expected to accomplish a great and permanent good for women and for all humanity.  On the evening of the day when the paper passed out of her hands