hen these became too great she had but
to turn again to him for the fullest sympathy and appreciation. He had
inspired all she had done and with his wise advice and financial aid
had assisted in the doing. When he passed away she felt the foundations
taken from beneath her feet. For a little while she was stunned and
helpless, and then the old strength came slowly back. The same
spiritual force that had upheld her so many years still spoke to her
soul and bade her once more take up life's duties.

[Footnote 31: A few years after the war, Miss Anthony chancing to be in
Binghamton at the time of a teachers' convention went in. Immediately
the whole body rose to give her welcome, she was escorted to the
platform and, amid great applause, invited to address them.]

CHAPTER XIV.

WOMEN'S NATIONAL LOYAL LEAGUE.

1863--1864.

It was with a sore and heavy heart that Miss Anthony again turned to
her public work, but she was impelled by the thought that it would have
been her father's earnest wish, and also by the feeling that work alone
could give relief to the sorrow which overwhelmed her. She was bitterly
disappointed that the "old guard" persisted in putting the question of
the rights of women in the background, thus losing the vantage points
gained by years of agitation. She alone, of all who had labored so
earnestly for this sacred cause, was not misled by the sophistry that
the work which women were doing for the Union would compel a universal
recognition of their demands when the war was ended. Subsequent events
showed the correctness of her judgment in maintaining that the close of
the war would precipitate upon the country such an avalanche of
questions for settlement that the claims of women would receive even
less consideration than heretofore had been accorded. Next to this
cause, however, that of the slaves appealed to her most strongly and
she willingly continued her labors for them, trusting that the day
might come when Garrison, Phillips, Greeley and the other great spirits
would redeem their pledges and unite their strength in securing justice
for women.

On January 11, 1863, Miss Anthony received this letter from Theodore
Tilton: "Well, what have you to say to the proclamation? Even if not
all one could wish, it is too much not to be thankful for. It makes the
remainder of slavery too valueless and precarious to be worth keeping.
The millenium is on the way. Three cheers for God!... I had the
pl