Purvis for president for many, many reasons. We (Hovey
Committee) shall aid in keeping our Standard floating till the enemy
comes down." All the letters received by Miss Anthony during May and
June were filled with the story of the dissension in the Anti-Slavery
Society.

It is not a part of this work to go into the merits of that discussion.
In brief, Mr. Garrison and his followers believed that, with the
ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery was forever abolished
in the United States and there was no further need of the Anti-Slavery
Society which he himself had founded. Phillips and his following held
that "no emancipation can be effectual and no freedom real, unless the
negro has the ballot and the States are prohibited from enacting laws
making any distinction among their citizens on Account of race or
color." There were minor differences of opinion respecting men and
measures, but the above are the fundamental points which led to the
first breach that had occurred for a quarter of a century in the ranks
of the great anti-slavery leaders, who had borne a persecution never
equalled in the history of our country. It resulted, at the May
Anniversary in New York, in Garrison's declining a re-election to the
presidency of the society, which he had held for thirty-two years, and
in the election of Phillips.

Those most intimately connected with Miss Anthony sustained the
position of Mr. Phillips--Mrs. Stanton, Parker Pillsbury, Robert
Purvis, Charles Remond, Stephen Foster, Lucretia and Lydia Mott, Anna
Dickinson, Sarah Pugh--and she herself was his staunchest defender.
Believing as strongly as she did that the suffrage is the very
foundation of liberty, that without it there can be no real freedom for
either man or woman, she could not have done otherwise, and yet, so
great was her reverence and affection for Mr. Garrison, it was with the
keenest regret she found herself no longer able to follow him. She
writes: "I am glad I was spared from witnessing that closing scene. It
will be hard beyond expression to leave him out of our councils, but he
never will be out of our sympathies. I hope you will refrain from all
personalities. Pro-slavery signs are too apparent and too dangerous at
this hour for us to stop for personal adjustments. To go forward with
the great work pressing upon the society, without turning to the right
or the left, is the one wise course."

Parker Pillsbury was made editor of the Standa