intellectual and spiritual magnets, first to one, then to the other, she was irresistibly and uncontrollably drawn.  When troubles arose and the two became bitterly hostile, her situation was most pitiable.  After matters had culminated and the battle was on, Beecher still spoke of her as “the beloved Christian woman,” and Tilton, as “the whitest-souled woman who ever lived.”  Weak she may have been through her emotions, never wilfully wicked, and far less sinning than sinned against.  She was wholly dominated by two powerful influences.  Between the upper and the nether millstone her life was crushed.

[Footnote 78:  For full report see History of Woman Suffrage, Vol.  II, p. 715.]

[Footnote 79:  This has been accomplished (1897) in four States, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho.]

[Footnote 80:  The W.C.T.U. did not recognize this fact at the time of their organization but in 1881 they established a franchise department and many of them now advocate suffrage.]

[Footnote 81:  Not far from three times as many were at Miss Anthony’s lecture as gathered to hear Senator Chandler.—­Jackson Patriot.

One of the largest audiences ever in the opera house gathered last evening on the occasion of the lecture of Miss Susan B. Anthony.—­Adrian Times and Expositor.

Probably the largest audience ever assembled in Clinton Hall convened to hear-Miss Susan B. Anthony, the celebrated expounder of the rights of women.—­Pontiac Gazette.

Since the great Children’s Jubilee there has not been so large an audience in the Academy of Music as that assembled to hear Miss Anthony’s lecture.—­East Saginaw Daily Republican.

Miss Anthony spoke at Hillsdale to a densely crowded opera house, while full 1,000 people were unable to gain admission.—­Grand Rapids Post.

Miss Susan B. Anthony spoke last evening to the largest audience that ever greeted a lecturer in Marshall, and we have had Mrs. Stanton, Theodore Tilton, Mark Twain and Olive Logan.  She had at least 1,200 hearers.—­Telegram to Detroit Evening News.

Last evening the aisles were double-seated, and the anterooms, staircases and vestibules densely packed with standing hearers.  No such house ever was had at this place.  She spoke with wonderful power.  At Pigeon, between trains, she spoke to a great throng who would not consider her strength and take “no” for an answer.—­Three Rivers Reporter.

A woman with whose public sayings and doings we have been familiar since the fall of 1867, and for whom our respect and admiration has never wavered during that period, spoke to the largest indoor audience ever assembled in this village.  The courthouse was literally packed, and the speaker had to stand on a table in front of the judge’s desk.—­Cassopolis National Democrat.]

CHAPTER XXVII.

REVOLUTION DEBT PAID—­WOMEN’S FOURTH OF JULY.