this furor is Republican spite.
They want to stave off our question until after the presidential
campaign. They can keep all the women still but Susan and me. They
can't control us, therefore the united effort of Republicans,
Abolitionists and certain women to crush us and our paper.

In showing how the women were sacrificed, The Revolution said:

Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Gerrit Smith and Wendell Phillips,
with one consent, bid the women of the nation stand aside and
behold the salvation of the negro. Wendell Phillips says, "One idea
for a generation," to come up in the order of their importance.
First negro suffrage, then temperance, then the eight-hour
movement, then woman suffrage. Three generations hence, woman
suffrage will be in order! What an insult to the women who have
labored thirty years for the emancipation of the slave, now when he
is their political equal, to propose to lift him above their heads.
Gerrit Smith, forgetting that our great American idea is
"individual rights," on which Abolitionists have ever based their
strongest arguments for emancipation, says: "This is the time to
settle the rights of races; unless we do justice to the negro we
shall bring down on ourselves another bloody revolution, another
four years' war, but we have nothing to fear from woman, she will
not avenge herself!" Woman not avenge herself? Look at your asylums
for the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the insane, and there behold the
results of this wholesale desecration of the mothers of the race!
Woman not avenge herself? Go into the streets of your cities at the
midnight hour, and there behold those whom God meant to be queens
in the moral universe giving your sons their first lessons in
infamy and vice. No, you can not wrong the humblest of God's
creatures without making discord and confusion in the whole social
system.

In regard to the bitter persecution waged upon the two women, Ellen
Wright Garrison said in a letter to Miss Anthony: "This sitting in
judgment upon those whose views differ from our own, pouring vials of
wrath on their heads and calling in the outside and prejudiced public
to help condemn, is unwise and un-Christian." Her mother, Martha
Wright, who at first was inclined to blame, wrote in the spring of
1868: "As regards the paper, its vigorous pages are what we need. I
regret the idiosyncra