The Revolution. In her journal she speaks of the good
audiences, the enthusiasm and the many prominent callers at most of the
places. At Mattoon she had a day and a night with Anna Dickinson and
wrote: "I found her the most weary and worn I had ever seen her, and
desperately tired of the lecture field. Her devotion to me is
marvelous. She is like my loving and loved child."

At Peoria, the editor of the Democratic paper stated that the laws of
Illinois were better for women than for men. Colonel Robert G.
Ingersoll, whom she never had seen, was in the audience, and sent a
note to the president of the meeting, asking that Miss Anthony should
not answer the editor but give him that privilege. He then took up the
laws, one after another, and, illustrating by cases in his own
practice, showed in his eloquent manner how cruelly unjust they were to
women and proved how necessary it was that women should have a voice in
making them. He also offered the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted: "We pledge ourselves, irrespective of party, to
use all honorable means to make the women of America the equals of men
before the law."

In Detroit Rev. Justin Fulton occupied one evening in opposition to
woman suffrage, and Miss Anthony replied to him the next. An audience
of a thousand gathered in Young Men's Hall at each meeting. The Free
Press had a most scurrilous review of the debate in which it said:

The speakeress rattled on in this strain until a late hour, saying
nothing new, nothing noble, not a word that would give one maid or
mother a purer or better thought. She drew no pictures of love in
the household--she did not seem to think that man and wife could
even stay under the same roof. She was not content that any woman
should be a bashful, modest woman, but wanted them to be like her,
to think as she thought.... People went there to see Susan B.
Anthony, who has achieved an evanescent reputation by her strenuous
endeavors to defy nature. Not one woman in a hundred cares to vote,
cares aught for the ballot, would take it with the degrading
influences it would surely bring.... Old, angular, sticking to
black stockings, wearing spectacles, a voice highly suggestive of
midnight Caudleism at poor Anthony, if he ever comes around, though
he never will. If all woman's righters look like that, the theory
will lose ground like a darkey going through a cornfield