With her debts pressing upon her and an array of lecture engagements ahead, Miss Anthony could neither pause to indulge her own grief nor to console and sympathize with the loved ones.  The very night of the funeral she again set forth.  By the New Year she had lessened her debt $1,600.  This trip extended through New York and Pennsylvania, to Washington and into Virginia.  Of the last she writes:  “A great work to be done here but the lectures can not possibly be made to pay expenses.”  In Philadelphia she spoke in the Star course, was the guest of Anna Dickinson and was introduced to her audience by Lucretia Mott, then seventy-seven years old.  The diary relates that Mrs. Mott came next morning before 8 o’clock to give her $20, saying it was very little but would show her confidence and affection.  The lecture given on this tour was entitled “The False Theory” and was highly commended by the press.  It never was written and probably never twice delivered in the same words, Miss Anthony always depending largely upon the inspiration of the occasion.

The middle of December she slipped back to Rochester to see her bereaved sister, and speaks of their receiving a letter of sympathy from Rev. J.K.  McLean, which, she says, “is the first philosophical word that has been spoken.”  While at home she was invited to the Hallowells’ to see Wendell Phillips, their first meeting since their sad difference of opinion concerning the Fourteenth Amendment.  They had a cordial interview and she went with him to his lecture in the evening.  The entry in the journal that night closes with the underscored sentence, “Phillips is matchless.”

[Footnote 54:  On the platform or in the audience were to be seen the beloved Quaker, Mrs. John J. Merrit, of Brooklyn, Margaret E. Winchester, Mrs. Theodore Tilton, Mrs. Edwin A. Studwell, Catharine Beecher—­her plain face illuminated with the fire of indignation—­Jenny June Croly, writing rapidly for the New York World, Cora Tappan, Hannah Tracy Cutler, president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, Phoebe Couzins, Mrs. Benjamin F. Butler, Mrs. James Parton, better known as Fanny Fern, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Elizabeth B. Phelps, two nieces of Mrs. U. S. Grant, Laura Curtis Bullard.  Frances Dietz Hallock, Ella Dietz Clymer, Anne Lynch Botta, Mary F. Gilbert, Mrs. Moses Beach, Julia Ward Howe, and many other well-known women.]

[Footnote 55:  The demands for woman everywhere today are for a wider range of employment, higher wages, thorough mental and physical education, and an equal right before the law in all those relations which grow out of the marriage state.  While we yield to none in the earnestness of our advocacy of these claims, we make a broader demand for the enfranchisement of woman, as the only way in which all her just rights can be permanently secured.  By discussing, as we shall incidentally, leading questions of political and social importance, we hope to educate women for an intelligent judgment upon public affairs, and for a faithful expression of that judgment at the polls.