y right over the heads of all of us." Said one of
our editors, Charles Dudley Warner, a man of finest taste and
culture, when he had been praising the dignity and power of the
whole platform: "Susan Anthony is my favorite. She was the only
woman there who never once thought of herself. You could see in her
every motion and in her very silence that the cause was all she
cared for, self was utterly forgotten."

He had indeed struck the key note to Miss Anthony's strongest
characteristic, utter forgetfulness of self, total self-abnegation,
self-sacrifice without a consciousness that it was such. Mrs. Hooker's
statement that she "had come in at the death" shows the strong faith of
most of these early workers that it would be only a brief time until
the rights they claimed would be recognized and granted; but she
herself has labored faithfully yet another thirty years without
breaking down the Chinese Wall of opposition.

One object of Mrs. Hooker in calling this Hartford convention was to
see if she could not bring together what were now becoming known as
"the New York and Boston wings of the suffrage party," but she
comments: "We have decided to give up our attempts at reconciliation;
we have neither time nor strength to spare, and if we had, they would
probably fail."

In December Miss Anthony went to the Dansville Sanitarium for a few
days and after her return, Dr. Kate Jackson, so widely known and loved,
wrote her: "Since your visit here, through which I obtained somewhat of
an insight into your struggles and labors, I have been in special
sympathy with you. I do admire the liberal and comprehensive spirit
which you and Mrs. Stanton show in allowing both sides of a question to
be fairly discussed in your paper, and in giving any woman who does
good work for her race in any field the credit for it, even though she
may not exactly agree with you on all points. The spirit of
exclusiveness is not calculated to push any reform among the masses....
Our house and hearts are always open to you. I want to send you
something more than good wishes and so enclose a little New Year's gift
to you, with my love and earnest prayers for your success."

The lovely Quaker, Sarah Pugh, wrote from Philadelphia:

Dear Susan: Not "Dear Madam," or "Respected Friend," according to
our stately fashion, for my heart yearns too warmly toward thee and
thy work for such formality. Would it were in my power to