ter, introduced by Judge Henry
R. Selden, and writes, "I had a most attentive and solemn listening."
The rest of the year was spent in finishing the interrupted lectures in
Iowa, and the beginning of 1876 found her in the far West with so many
engagements that she decided, for the first time in all the years, not
to go to Washington to the National Convention. This was in the capable
hands of Mrs. Gage, who was then president; so she sent an encouraging
letter and a liberal contribution.

Miss Anthony still continued on her weary round-through the inclement
winter and spring, sometimes lecturing to meager and sometimes to
crowded houses but netting an average of $100 a week, which was
religiously applied to the payment of the debt. She returned to Chicago
to lecture again in the Dime course, Sunday, March 26, and says in her
diary: "An immense audience, hall packed, my speech was free, easy and
happy, my audience quick to see and appreciate." The address on this
occasion was "Bread and the Ballot."[85] She returned at once to Iowa,
Kansas and Missouri, and by May 1, 1876, was able to write, "The day of
Jubilee for me has come. I have paid the last dollar of The Revolution
debt!" It was just six years to the very month since she had given up
her cherished paper and undertaken to pay off its heavy indebtedness,
and all her friends rejoiced with her that it was finally rolled from
her shoulders and she was free. Even the newspapers offered
congratulations in pleasant editorial paragraphs.[86] In a long notice,
the Chicago Daily News said:

Her paper lived a few years and then went down. In the heart of the
woman whose hopes went down with it, the little paper that cost so
much and died so prematurely occupies, perhaps, the place which in
other women's hearts is occupied by the remembrance of a baby's
face, now shrouded in folds of white satin and hushed in death. But
The Revolution left behind a debt of several thousand dollars.
Susan B. Anthony was poor, yet she stepped forward and assumed,
individually, the entire indebtedness. By working six years and
devoting to the purpose all the money she could earn she has paid
the debt and interest. And now, when the creditors of that paper
and others who really know her, whatever they may think of her
political opinions, hear the name of Susan B. Anthony, they feel
inclined to raise their hats in reverence.

The Rochester Pos