and listen to her, either in public or private, to realize that she is a pure, generous, deep-thinking, womanly woman.  Simply because she has lived her own life, spoken her own thoughts and stood upon her own platform, the masses have condemned her; but history has already recorded her as one of the most earnest, hard-working reformers of the day.  If the women of this country only knew how many changes and ameliorations have been made in the laws regarding themselves through her unselfish, persistent efforts, at her approach they would all rise up and call her blessed.”  But that there still existed editors of the old-time caliber, this extract from the Richmond, Ky., Herald, October 29, 1879, shows: 

Miss Anthony is above the medium height for women, dresses plainly, is uncomely in person, has rather coarse, rugged features and masculine manners.  Her piece, which doubtless she has been studying for thirty or forty years, was very well delivered for a woman, containing no original thought, but full of old hackneyed ideas, which every female suffrage shrieker has hurled from the stump against “ignorant men and small boys,” for time out of mind all over this country and every other country where they could command an audience of curious people willing to throw away an hour or two on a vain, futile and foolish harangue, proposing to transform men into women and women into men.  Such dissatisfied females should not hurl anathemas at men, forsooth, because they happened to be born into the world women instead of men.  God alone is responsible for the difference between the sexes, and he is able to bear it.  Men are not to blame that women are women, for there is not a man in this whole land who wouldn’t rather have a boy baby than a gal baby any time.  There never was a newly-married man when he learned that his first born was a girl, that didn’t try to tear out his hair by the roots because it wasn’t a boy....  If this tirade against men is to be persisted in, we see no escape for man except to quit his foolishness and have no more children, unless he can have some sort of guarantee that they will all be boys.  It will have come to a strange pass indeed when the good women of this land, who, as mothers, have the nurture, training and admonition of every boy from his cradle to mature manhood, are unwilling to trust in the hands of their own offspring the destinies of the nation.

That such an attack can not be attributed to sectional prejudice may be proved by this extract from a column of vituperation in the Grand Rapids, Mich., Times, during this same trip, headed “Spinster Susan’s Suffrage Show:”