[Footnote 82:  See Appendix for full speech.]

[Footnote 83:  At Carbondale she addressed the students of the Normal School, the day after her lecture, emphasizing the necessity of woman’s being able to care for herself, urging them to marry only for love and not for support, and to look upon marriage as a luxury and not a necessity.  She was a little doubtful as to the effect of this talk upon both faculty and students, but one of the professors called to tell her how fitting was every word and how he had longed to have just those things said.  The girl students sent her a handsome bouquet as she was taking her train.]

[Footnote 84:  President M.B.  Anderson, of Rochester University, wrote a friend in this connection:  “I always remember Miss Anthony as an angel of mercy in the house of a sister who was crushed by the loss of a son.”]

[Footnote 85:  See Appendix for full speech.]

[Footnote 86:  From a large number of clippings, the following are selected as specimens: 

Miss Anthony has now earned the money and discharged the last obligation of her paper.  This is the work of a brave and good woman....  She is a woman who pays her debts and sets a watch upon her lips.—­Cincinnati Enquirer.

It is the fashion among fools of both sexes to sneer at Susan B. Anthony and use her name to point witless jokes.  But it seems to us—­and we differ from her most emphatically on the question of woman suffrage—­that her brave, unselfish life reflects a credit on womanhood which the follies of a thousand others can not remove.—­Utica Observer.

“She has paid her debts like a man,” says an exchange.  Like a man?  Not so.  Not one man in a thousand but would have “squealed,” “laid down” and settled at ten or twenty cents on the dollar.  As people go in this wicked world, it is no more than fair to say in good faith that Miss Anthony is a very admirable person.  She is in business, as in other matters, one of the few—­the select few—­who steer by their own compass and not by the shifting winds.—­Buffalo Express.

Miss Susan B. Anthony has done a noble thing, which deserves to be widely known.  She has lectured 120 times during this season and has paid off the last debt of The Revolution.  That she has felt obliged to work thus for years when thousands of men avail themselves of the privileges of the bankrupt act, is a phenomenal exhibition of personal honor.  A woman is thoroughly qualified to plead for the claims of her own sex when she respects the rights of human nature so keenly.—­New York Graphic.

We are thankful to see the recognition accorded to the worth of our townswoman.  She has been often misjudged and sometimes abused; but unfalteringly and unselfishly she has devoted herself to her life-work, and despite cavilling and sneers, has deeply impressed her thought upon the age in which she has been placed.  Her executive talent has unceasingly declared itself and her character has been without reproach.  She is today a power in the land, respected even by those who oppose her.  She may not witness the full triumph of her cause; but her fame as a brave, truthful and consistent advocate of a conquering cause is secure.  Even in her lifetime she is receiving something of the reward to which her fidelity to principle entities her.—­Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.]