just read your letter, and it would have been a wet blanket
to Susan and me were we not sure that we are right. With three
bills before Congress to exclude us from all hope of representation
in the future, I thank God that _two_ women of the nation felt the
insult and decided to rouse the rest to use the only right we have
in the government--the right of petition. If the petition goes with
our names alone, ours be the glory, and the disgrace to all the
rest! We have sent out 1,000 franked by Representative James
Brooks, of the New York Express, and if they come back to us empty,
Susan and I will sign all of them, that every Democratic member may
have one to shame those hypocritical Republicans. When your
granddaughters hear that against such insults you made no protest,
they will blush for their ancestry.

This letter from Lucretia Mott shows that some men remained true to the
woman's cause: "My husband and myself cordially hail this movement. The
negro's hour came with his emancipation from cruel bondage. He now has
advocates not a few for his right to the ballot. Intelligent as these
are, they must see that this right can not be consistently withheld
from women. We pledge $50 toward the necessary funds." At this time
Miss Anthony in a strong and earnest letter showed the injustice of the
Standard's behavior:

How I do wish the good old Standard would preach the whole gospel
of the whole loaf of republicanism; but I am sorry to say the
present indications are that it will extend even less favor to us
than ever before. I gather this from Mr. Powell's announcement to
me last week that henceforth, if I were not going to give my
personal efforts to the Standard, he should not publish notices of
our meetings except at "full advertising rates." I was not a little
startled but answered: "Of course I shall say the Standard is the
truest and best paper for negro suffrage; but I can not say that it
is so for woman suffrage." He said he saw this and hereafter we
must pay for all notices.

[Illustration: Lucretia Mott]

Now, I do complain of this and with just cause, so long as $2,000
of the sainted Hovey's money are sunk annually in the struggle to
keep the Standard afloat, while Mr. Hovey's will expressly says:
"In case chattel slavery should be abolished before the expenditure
of the full amount, the residue shal