ridge, John F. Driggs,
_Michigan;_ Benjamin F. Wade, _Ohio;_ J. W. Broomall, William D.
Kelley, _Pennsylvania;_ Henry Ward Beecher, Gerrit Smith, George
William Curtis, _New York;_ Dudley S. Gregory, George Polk, John G.
Foster, James L. Hayes, Z. H. Pangborn, _New Jersey;_ Wm. Lloyd
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Samuel E. Sewall, Oakes Ames,
_Massachusetts;_ William Sprague, T. W. Higginson, _Rhode Island;_
Calvin E. Stowe, _Connecticut_.]

[Footnote 45: "I take my beloved Susan's judgment against the world, I
have always found that when we see eye to eye we are sure to be right,
and when we pull together we are strong. After we discuss any point and
fully agree, our faith in our united judgment is immovable, and no
amount of ridicule and opposition has the slightest influence, come
from what quarter it may."]

CHAPTER XVIII.

ESTABLISHING THE REVOLUTION.

1868.

The first entry in the diary of 1868, January 1, reads: "All the old
friends, with scarce an exception, are sure we are wrong. Only time can
tell, but I believe we are right and hence bound to succeed."
Immediately after the meeting at Steinway Hall, Mr. Train had brought
with him to call on Miss Anthony, David M. Melliss, financial editor of
the New York World, and they entered into an agreement by which the two
men were to supply the funds for publishing a paper until it was on a
paying basis. It was to be conducted by Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton
in the interests of women, and Mr. Train and Mr. Melliss were to use
such space as they desired for expressing their financial and other
opinions. The first number was issued January 8, a handsome quarto of
sixteen pages.

Ten thousand copies were printed and, under the congressional frank of
Representative James Brooks, of New York, were sent to all parts of the
country. The advent of this element in the newspaper world created a
sensation such as scarcely ever has been equalled by any publication.
From hundreds of clippings a few characteristic examples are selected.
The New York Sunday Times said:

THE LADIES MILITANT.--It is out at last. If the women as a body
have not succeeded in getting up a revolution, Susan B. Anthony, as
their representative, has. Her Revolution was issued last Thursday
as a sort of New Year's gift to what she considered a yearning
public, and it is said to be "charged to the muzzle with literary
nitre-glycerine." If Mrs. Stanton would attend a lit