m the friends in Washington, D. C., came a plush case, on whose satin
lining rested an exquisite point lace fichu and sleeve ruffles. A New
York gentleman sent $100 to be used toward the purchase of an India
shawl, writing: "I don't believe in woman suffrage, but I do believe in
Susan B. Anthony." The Cheney Brothers sent a handsome black silk dress
pattern; Helen Potter, a steamer rug; the Fosters, a travelling bag;
Adeline and Annie Thomson, a silver cup; Robert Purvis, a gold-handled
umbrella, and there were various other tokens of remembrance. Many of
the leading papers contained an editorial farewell, with a hearty
compliment and Godspeed. The Chicago Tribune, edited by Joseph Medill,
offered this tribute:

The best known and most popular woman in the United States, engaged
in public work, is Susan B. Anthony, the co-worker of Wm. Lloyd
Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Lucretia Mott and
others in the anti-slavery movement, and the fellow-laborer of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the woman's rights movement. She ranks
first among the warriors in this latter contest, because she has
lived her life in its service and there has been no side issue to
it. Neither father nor mother, husband nor children, have diverted
her mind from her hobby, or led her to cease for a day from the
prosecution of the task she set out to accomplish.... Miss Anthony
is an American woman whom the better class of English people
particularly, and of foreigners generally, will delight to honor,
and one that her country-women are pleased to have represent them.
She is, in point of character and ability, one of the few of her
sex who have made themselves a name and a place in the history of
her time....

She has had occasion to speak sharply, to lecture women severely,
when in her heart she would have preferred to praise; but women
love her dearly all the same, and trust her implicitly. In
integrity, stainless honor and generosity of sentiment and of deed
she has no peer. She has stood the storm of raillery and abuse she
aroused, as the leader of the "shrieking sisterhood," with perfect
equanimity, and while others were cowed by the ridicule which was
hardest of all to bear, Miss Anthony busied herself using this
opportunity to show to women the real opinion of them entertained
by the stronger sex.

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