through all. If we sometimes give her occasion to feel that we
prized father more than her, it was she who taught us ever to hold
him thus above all others. Our high respect and deep love for him,
our perfect trust in him, we owe to mother's precepts and vastly
more to her example. And, by and by, when we have to reckon her
among the invisible, we shall live in remembrance of her wise
counsel, tender watching, self-sacrifice and devotion not second to
that we now cherish for the memory of our father--nay, it will even
transcend that in measure, as a mother's constant and ever-present
love and care for her children are beyond those of a father.

A bit of mirth comes into the somber atmosphere with a note from
Theodore Tilton:

To SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL--Since of late you have been
bold in expressing your opinion that the draft should be
strenuously enforced and that the broken ranks of our brave armies
should be supplied with new men, it will serve to show you how
great the difference is between those who _say_ and those who _do_,
if I inform you--as in duty bound I do hereby--that I know a little
lady only half your size who doubles your zeal in all these
respects and who, without waiting for your tardy example, presented
on her own account to the government on Thursday last a new man,
weighing nine pounds, to be enrolled among the infantry of the
United States.

Miss Anthony undertook the great work of this National Loyal League
without the guarantee from any source of a single dollar. The expenses
were very heavy; office rent, clerk hire, printing bills, postage,
etc., brought them up to over $5,000, but as usual she was fertile in
resources for raising money. All who signed the petition were requested
to give a cent and in this way about $3,000 were realized. A few
contributions came in, but the demands were infinite for every dollar
which patriotic citizens could spare, and the league felt desirous of
paying its own way. To assist in this, she arranged a course of
lectures at Cooper Institute. Among those who responded to her call
were Hon. William D. Kelley, Edwin P. Whipple, Theodore D. Weld, Rev.
Stephen H. Tyng, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, George William
Curtis, Frances D. Gage and several others. Most of these donated their
services and others reduced their price. Letters of commendation were
received fr