Surely there is more to hope from the party, a majority of whose
men dare vote opinions against their bosses, than for the one in
which not a single man dares even raise a protest. What would our
friends have had us do? Bless the Republicans for slapping us in
the face, and blast the Populists for giving us a helping hand?

Among the comforting letters which came during these troublous times was
one from Wm. Lloyd Garrison, with whose father she had fought the battle
of Abolitionism, in which he said: "I saw Mrs. Isabel Barrows yesterday
and heard from her of your weary journey together from Chicago, your
discouragement regarding Kansas, and the personal pain occasioned you by
untrue newspaper reports and the harsh criticism of friends. I write to
express my word of sympathy and cheer. Send me a brief statement of the
Populist matter and let me break a lance in your behalf. A reformer's
life is full of misrepresentations. How little they signify in the long
run and, if they did not wound the spirit, would not be worth the
mention. To be misjudged by one's own friends hurts more than all the
bitterness of the rest of the world."

In a public address made this summer, Miss Anthony referred to the
matter in the following beautiful words:

Had the Republicans of Kansas adopted a woman suffrage plank, and
Miss Shaw and Miss Anthony declared that, because of such
endorsement, they would prefer the success of that party, nobody
would have thought it meant that they had endorsed the whole
Republican platform, and made themselves responsible for the right
conduct of every officer and nominee of that party.

I was born and reared a Quaker, and am one still; I was trained by
my father, a cotton manufacturer, in the Henry Clay school of
protection to American products; but today all sectarian creeds and
all political policies sink into utter insignificance compared with
the essence of religion and the fundamental principle of
government--equal rights. Wherever, religiously, socially,
educationally, politically, justice to woman is preached and
practiced, I find a bond of sympathy, and I hope and trust that
henceforth I shall be brave enough to express my thanks to every
individual and every organization, popular or unpopular, that gives
aid and comfort to our great work for the emancipation of woman,
and through her th