in a light
night. If she had come out and plainly said, "See here, ladies, see
me, I am the result of twenty years of constant howling at man's
tyranny," there would never have been another "howl" uttered in
Detroit. Or, if she had plainly said, in so many words, "I am going
to lecture on bosh, for the sake of that almighty half-dollar per
head--take it as bosh," people would have admired her candor,
though forming the same conclusions without her assistance....

Myra Bradwell, the able editor of the Chicago Legal News, paid the
following tribute: "Miss Anthony is terribly in earnest on this
suffrage question. We fully agree with her that the great battle-ground
in the first instance should be in Congress.... She is now fifty, and
the best years of her life have been devoted solely to the cause of
woman. She has never turned aside from this object but has always been
in the field, defending her principles against all assaults with an
ability which has not only won the admiration of her friends but the
respect of her enemies."

She made many new acquaintances on this tour, and one entry in the
diary is: "Quite a novel feature this--to have people quarrel as to who
shall have the pleasure of entertaining me as their guest!" She
returned to New York on Saturday, April 30, and on Sunday the diary
says: "Spent the day at Mrs. Tilton's and heard Beecher preach a
splendid sermon on 'Visiting the Sins of the Parents on the Children.'"

Various friends of the woman suffrage cause had decided that something
must be done to unite the two national organizations. An editorial in
the Independent to this effect was followed by a call for a conference
to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, April 6, signed by Theodore Tilton,
Phoebe Cary, Rev. John Chadwick and a number of others. The meeting was
duly held, and the venerable Lucretia Mott, who now rarely left home,
came all the way from Philadelphia to use her influence toward a
reconciliation. Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton were lecturing in the
West and the former telegraphed: "The entire West demands united
national organization for the Sixteenth Amendment, this very
congressional session, and so does Susan B. Anthony." Mrs. Stanton
wrote to the conference: "I will do all I can for union. If I am a
stumbling-block I will gladly resign my office. Having fought the world
twenty years, I do not now wish to turn and fight those who have so
long stood together t