l she is, a keen, energetic, uncompromising,
unconquerable, passionately earnest woman; Clara Barton, whose name
is dear to soldiers and blessed in thousands of homes to which the
soldiers shall return no more--a brave, benignant-looking woman....

Miss Anthony followed in a strain not only cheerful, but
exultant--reviewing the advance of the cause from its first
despised beginning to its present position, where, she alleged, it
commanded the attention of the world. She spoke in her usual
pungent, vehement style, hitting the nail on the head every time,
and driving it in up to the head. Indeed, it seems to me, that
while Lucretia Mott may be said to be the soul of this movement,
and Mrs. Stanton the mind, the "swift, keen intelligence," Miss
Anthony, alert, aggressive and indefatigable, is its nervous
energy--its propulsive force....

To see the three chief figures of this great movement sitting upon
a stage in joint council, like the three Fates of a new
dispensation--dignity and the ever-acceptable grace of scholarly
earnestness, intelligence and beneficence making them prominent--is
assurance that the women of our country, bereft of defenders or
injured by false ones, have advocates equal to the great demands of
their cause.

[Autograph:

Yours affectionately
Grace Greenwood]

Immediately after this convention, Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, by
invitation of a number of State suffrage committees, made a tour of
Chicago, Springfield, Bloomington, Galena, St. Louis, Madison,
Milwaukee and Toledo, speaking to large audiences. At St. Louis they
were met by a delegation of ladies and escorted to the Southern Hotel,
and then invited by the president of the State association, Mrs.
Virginia L. Minor, to visit various points of interest in the city. At
Springfield, Ill., the lieutenant-governor presided over their
convention, and Governor Palmer and many members of the legislature
were in the audience. With the Chicago delegation, Mrs. Livermore,
Judge Waite, Judge Bradwell, Mrs. Myra Bradwell, editor of the Legal
News, and others, they addressed the legislature. At Chicago, in Crosby
Music Hall, the meeting was decidedly aggressive. Miss Anthony's
resolutions stirred up the politicians, but she defended them bravely,
according to report:

She stood outside of any party which threw itself across the path
of complete suffrage t