Susan and me by a few
persons have been petty and narrow, but we are right and this nine
days' wonder will soon settle itself. Of course, people turn up the
whites of their eyes, but time will bring them all down again. We
have reason to congratulate ourselves that we have shocked more
friends of the cause into life than we ever dreamed we had--persons
who never gave a cent or said a word for our movement are the most
concerned lest Susan and I should injure it. Mr. Train has some
extravagances and idiosyncrasies, but he is willing to devote his
energies to our cause when no other man is, and we should be
foolish not to accept his aid. To think of Boston women holding a
festival to aid the Anti-Slavery Standard, while their own
petitions are ignored in the Senate of the United States! Women
have been degraded so long they have lost all self-respect. If we
love the black man as well as ourselves we shall fulfill the Bible
injunction. The anti-slavery requirement to love him better is a
little too much for human nature.

A few members of the executive board of the Equal Rights Association
made a strong attempt to prevent the editors of The Revolution from
occupying the room at No. 37 Park Row, used for their headquarters.
Miss Anthony soon showed, however, that she had made herself personally
responsible for the rent, that while she was overwhelmed with the work
of the Kansas campaign letters were continually sent her asking if she
could not somehow get the money to pay it, and that as soon as she
returned, she borrowed $100 on her own note and paid it in full. So she
held possession and the committee, after voting itself out at one
session, voted itself back at the next, and finally abandoned the room.

On the very day the first copy of The Revolution appeared, Mr. Train
announced that he was going to England immediately. Miss Anthony says
in her diary: "My heart sank within me; only our first number issued
and our strongest helper and inspirer to leave us! This is but another
discipline to teach us that we must stand on our own feet." Mr. Train
gave her $600 and assured her that he had arranged with Mr. Melliss to
supply all necessary funds during his short absence, but she felt
herself invested with a heavy responsibility. A few days later Mrs.
Stanton said in a letter to a friend:

Our paper has a monied basis of $50,000 and men who understand