should be thankful, Susan, for the ridicule and
abuse on which we have fed." To one who tried to make trouble between
Miss Anthony and herself she sent this reply: "Our friendship is of too
long standing and has too deep roots to be easily shattered. I think we
have said worse things to each other, face to face, than we have ever
said about each other. Nothing that Susan could say or do could break
my friendship with her; and I know nothing could uproot her affection
for me." And to Miss Anthony she wrote: "I send you letters from _our_
children. As the environments of the mother influence the child in
prenatal life, and you were with me so much, there is no doubt you have
had a part in making them what they are. There are a depth and
earnestness in these younger ones and a love for you that delight my
heart." Such letters as these are scattered thickly through the
correspondence of nearly fifty years, and while Miss Anthony seldom put
her own feelings into words, her absolute loyalty and devotion to Mrs.
Stanton during all the half-century bear their own testimony.

The talented contributor to the Philadelphia Sunday Republic, Annie
McDowell, paid a beautiful tribute to Miss Anthony at this time,
illustrating how much she was loved by women:

"Some one wishes to know which of the advocates of woman's rights
we think the ablest. Why, Susan B., of course. Without her, the
organization would have been utterly broken to pieces and
scattered. She is the guiding spirit, the executive power that
leads the forlorn hope and brings order out of chaos. Others seek
to promote their own interests, but Susan, earnest, honest,
self-sacrificing, much-enduring, thinks only of the work she has in
hand, and speculates solely on the chances of living long enough to
accomplish it. She has given up home, friends, her profession of
teacher and the modest competence acquired by her labor; has been
caricatured, ridiculed, maligned and persecuted, but has never
turned aside or faltered in the work to which she has given her
life. Whatever may be the opinion of the conservative or fogy world
with regard to Susan B. Anthony, those who know her well and have
watched her career most attentively, know her to be rich in all the
best and most tender of womanly virtues, and possessed of as brave
and noble a spirit and as great integrity of character as ever fell
to the lot of mor