business to push it. Train is engaging writers and getting
subscribers in Europe. It will improve in every way when we are
thoroughly started. Just now we are fighting for our life among
reformers; they pitch into us without mercy. We are trying to make
the Democrats take up our question, for that is the only way to
move the Republicans. Subscribers come in rapidly, beyond our most
sanguine expectations. The press in the main is cordial, but looks
askance at a political paper edited by a woman. If we had started a
"Lily" or a "Rosebud" and remained in the region of sentiment, we
should have been eulogized to the skies, but here is something
dangerous.

Instead of Mr. Train's securing writers and subscribers in Europe, he
was arrested for complicity with the Fenians the moment he made his
first speech, and spent the year in a Dublin jail. He wrote that the
finding of fifty copies of The Revolution in his possession was an
additional reason for his arrest, as the officials did not stop to read
a word, the name was sufficient. While Mr. Train continued his
contributions to the paper during his residence in jail, he was not
able to meet his financial obligations to it. Mr. Melliss made heroic
efforts to pay in his quota, but the days were full of anxiety for
everybody connected with The Revolution. Miss Anthony was used to such
care. She had been the financial burden-bearer of every reform with
which she had been connected, but to this crushing weight was added
such a persecution as she never had experienced before, even in the
days of pro-slavery mobs. Then the attacks had been made by open and
avowed enemies, and she had had a host of staunch supporters to share
them and give her courage; now her persecutors were in ambush and were
those who had been her nearest and dearest friends; and now she was
alone except for Mrs. Stanton and Mr. Pillsbury. Even they were labored
with, and besought to renounce one who seemed to have complete mastery
over them and was leading them to destruction, but nothing could shake
their allegiance. The excuse for this persecution was that the Equal
Rights Association was injured by the publication of The Revolution.

That there should be a paper published in the interest of the rights of
women had been the dream of the advocates for many years. Antoinette
Blackwell had written Miss Anthony several years before: "I wish we had
the contemplated paper for