rd in place of Oliver
Johnson, and was assisted by George W. Smalley, who had married an
adopted daughter of Wendell Phillips. Mr. Pillsbury wrote Miss Anthony
soon after the anniversary:

We could not see how the colored race were to be risked, shut up in
the States with their old masters, whom they had helped to conquer
and out of whose defeat their freedom had come; so we voted to keep
the machinery in gear until better assurances were given of a free
future than we yet possess. We have offended some by our course. I
am sorry, but it was Mr. Garrison who taught me to be true to
myself. To my mind, suffrage for the negro is now what immediate
emancipation was thirty years ago. If we emancipate from slavery
and leave the European doctrine of serfdom extant, even in the
mildest form, then the colored race, or we, or perhaps both, have
another war in store. And so my work is not done till the last
black man can declare in the full face of the world, "I am a man
and a brother."

In June, as the expected little stranger had arrived safe, Miss Anthony
accepted an invitation to deliver the Fourth of July address at
Ottumwa, and then went through her inevitable agony whenever she had a
speech to prepare. She took the stage for Topeka, finding among her
fellow-passengers her relative, Major Scott Anthony, with Mr.
Butterfield of the Overland Dispatch, and the long, hot, dusty ride was
enlivened by an animated discussion of the political questions of the
day. During this drive over the unbroken prairies, she made the
prediction that, given a few decades of thrift, they would be dotted
with farms, orchards and villages and the State would be a paradise.

Miss Anthony was among the first of the Abolitionists to declare that
the negroes must have the suffrage, one of the most unpopular ideas
ever broached, and she writes: "As fearless, radical and independent as
my brother is, he will not allow my opinions on this subject to go into
his paper." At Topeka she spoke to a large audience in the Methodist
church on this question. In order to reach Ottumwa she had to ride 125
miles by stage in the heat of July, and her expenses were considerable.
No price had been guaranteed for her address, but she learned to her
surprise that she was expected to make it a gratuitous offering, as was
the custom on account of the poverty of the people. They came from
miles around and were enthusiast