heard Miss Anthony speak was in 1861, shortly
after the election of Lincoln when, it will be remembered, she was
mobbed from city to city. Since then time and the various
undertakings in which she has engaged have apparently had no effect
upon her, unless to render her more eloquent and more sanguine of
the ultimate righting of all wrongs, and to inspire additional
enthusiasm for a cause to which she has clung with a perseverance
deserving admiration. She is very choice in the selection of words
and phrases, speaks in an earnest, attractive monotone, and really
made one of the most eloquent and sensible speeches for female
suffrage to which we ever listened.

At Fairfield, Herkimer Co., Miss Anthony spoke in the presence of a
large number of students from the academy and, at the close of her
address, there were vigorous calls for the wife of the principal, who
was known to be opposed to any phase of so-called woman's rights. She
finally responded and, in the course of her remarks, said that when she
was a teacher she used to believe that women should receive the same
salary as men, but since she had married and realized the
responsibilities of a man of family, she had been converted to the
belief that men should receive more than women. Miss Anthony at once
retorted: "It would seem then, that so long as you were earning your
own living you wanted a good salary, but so soon as you give your
services to a husband, you want him to receive the value of both your
work and his own, regardless of those women who still have to support
themselves and very often a family." The fact that the lady was her
hostess did not save her from this merited rebuke, which was heartily
appreciated and enjoyed by the students.

In these tours the burden of the preliminary arrangements always was
assumed by Miss Anthony. When Mrs. Stanton and she reached a place
where a meeting was to be held, the former would go at once to bed,
while the latter rushed to the newspaper offices to look after the
advertising, then to the hall to see that all was in readiness, and
usually conducted the afternoon session alone. In the evening Mrs.
Stanton would appear, rested and radiant, and read a carefully written
address, while Miss Anthony, exhausted and having had no time to
prepare a speech, would make a few impromptu remarks as best she could.
Then the papers would comment on the difference between the beautiful
and