t-Express thus voiced the opinion of her own
townspeople:

The thousands of friends of the plucky and noble woman of whom we
speak will rejoice with her over this success. There are a good
many men who have hidden behind their wives' petticoats for a much
smaller sum than $10,000. It should be remembered, furthermore,
that Miss Anthony has labored indefatigably in the cause of woman
suffrage, paying her own expenses most of the time; has undergone a
contemptible and outrageous persecution at the hands of the United
States court for violating the election laws; has bent for months
over the bed of a brother wounded almost to death by an assassin's
bullet; has watched tenderly over the steps of an aged mother; and
has always, everywhere, been the soul of helpfulness and
benevolence. Here is an example, in a woman, who our laws say is
not fit to exercise the active and defensive privilege of
citizenship, that puts to shame the lives of ninety-nine in every
hundred men.

It is not surprising that the letters of her friends during these past
months should speak of "the pale, sad face, so worn by lines of care
and toil," but now all was over and she returned home. To rest? Far
from it. The third day found her en route for New York to attend the
Suffrage Anniversary, May 10 and 11.

The thinking women of the country were justly indignant, in this great
centennial year of the Republic, at the high-handed manner in which
they had been ignored in the vast preparations for its celebration, in
spite of their protests and in face of the fact that women had
purchased $100,000 of the centennial stock issued to pay expenses. It
had been decided at the Washington convention that the National
Association should open headquarters in Philadelphia, and at this May
meeting Miss Anthony was made chairman of the 1876 campaign committee.
The resolutions adopted show the spirit of the convention:

WHEREAS, The right of self-government inheres in the individual
before governments are founded, constitutions framed or courts
created; and _whereas_, Governments exist to protect the people in
the enjoyment of their natural rights, and when one becomes
destructive of this end, it is the right of the people to resist
and abolish it; and _whereas_, The women of the United States for
one hundred years have been denied the exercise of their natural
right of sel