orking so hard and being so misunderstood, and
we constantly fear that, in some of your hurried business
transactions, your enemies will delight to pick you up and make you
still more trouble.

At this time, in a letter to Martha C. Wright, Mr. Pillsbury said:
"Susan works like a whole plantation of slaves, and her example is
scourge enough to keep me tugging also." With her rare optimism, Miss
Anthony never gives up hoping, and on January 1, 1870, writes to Sarah
Pugh: "The year opens splendidly. December brought the largest number
of subscriptions of any month since we began, and yesterday the largest
of any day. So the little 'rebel Revolution' doesn't feel anything but
the happiest sort of a New Year."

A movement was begun for forming a stock company of several wealthy
women, on a basis of $50,000, to relieve Miss Anthony of all financial
responsibility, making her simply the business manager. Paulina Wright
Davis already had given $500, and January 1, 1870, her name appeared as
corresponding editor. Isabella Beecher Hooker took the liveliest
interest in the paper and was very anxious that it should be continued.
She devised various schemes for this purpose and finally decided that
her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and herself would give The
Revolution their personal influence and that of their large circle of
friends, by putting their names on the staff of editors. Early in
December, 1869, she sent the following:

We will give our names as corresponding editors for your paper for
one year and agree to furnish at least six articles apiece and also
to secure an original article from some friend every other week
during the year. We agree to do this without promised compensation,
but on the condition that you will change the name of the paper to
The True Republic, or something equally satisfactory to us; and
that you will pay us equally for this service according to your
ability, you yourself being sole judge of that.

H.B. STOWE, I.B. HOOKER.

This was written while they were in New York City, and on her way home
Mrs. Hooker wrote, while on board the train, an enthusiastic letter
regarding details of the work, ending, after she arrived: "I give you
my hand upon it. I have read the above to my two Mentors, and they
approve in the main." In a few days, she said in a long letter:

I wish Mrs. Stanton's "editorial welcome" to us might be in the
dignified sty