sses no prejudice, even of
education, when she stands forth everywhere and in all places the
unflinching, unwearied, never-to-be-put-down champion of woman. In
the better age, when the woman of the future shall be man's equal
in law, in education, in labor, in labor's rewards; when time shall
have softened the asperities of the present, and the crudeness of
the personal shall be buried forever in the grave, Susan B. Anthony
will live as one of the truest friends that woman ever had.

[Autograph: Mary Clemmer]

Sarah Pugh wrote Miss Anthony to stop over in Philadelphia and visit
Mrs. Mott and herself on her way home from Washington, adding, "We are
true to you." In accepting the invitation, Miss Anthony said: "I pray
every day to keep broad and generous towards all who scatter and
divide, and hope I may hold out to the end. The movement can not be
damaged, though some particular schemes may, by any ill-judged action.
The wheels are secure on the iron rails, and no 'National' or
'American'--no New York or Boston--assumption or antagonism can block
them. Individuals may jump on or off, yet the train is stopped thereby
but for a moment."

A letter to her from the California association declares: "We will
split into a thousand pieces before we will prove false to you, who
have so long borne the heat and burden of the day." The heat and burden
had indeed been great, and one less strong in body and less heroic in
soul would have sunk under them. Although she was still weighed down by
the terrible financial struggle of The Revolution, the storm of
opposition which it had aroused was passing away and the old friends
and many new ones were flocking around the intrepid standard bearer,
whom neither fear nor favor could induce to swerve from the straight
line marked out by her own convictions and conscience. Miss Anthony
would soon complete a half-century, and her friends resolved to
commemorate it in a worthy manner. Handsomely engraved cards were sent
out, reading:

The ladies of the Woman's Bureau invite you to a reception on
Tuesday evening, February 15, 1870, to celebrate the Fiftieth
Birthday of Susan B. Anthony. On this occasion her friends will be
afforded an opportunity to testify their appreciation of her twenty
years' service in behalf of woman. ELIZABETH B. PHELPS, ANNA B.
DARLING, CHARLOTTE B. WILBOUR.

There had been hard work to persuade Miss Anthony to accept