ep other organizations of women away; but she was willing to
take the risk. It resulted as prophesied. Not even the strong-minded
Sorosis would have its clubrooms there, nor would any other society of
women, and after a year's experiment, she gave up her project, rented
the building to a private family and The Revolution moved to No. 27
Chatham street. The generous Anna Dickinson, because of her friendship
for Miss Anthony, presented Mrs. Phelps with $1,000, as a recompense
for any loss she might have sustained through The Revolution. Mrs.
Phelps being very ill that winter, added a codicil to her will giving
Miss Anthony $1,000 to show that she had only the kindest feelings for
her.

At the beginning of 1870, a stock company was formed and the Woman's
Journal established in Boston. Mrs. Livermore merged her Chicago paper,
the Agitator, into this new enterprise (as she had proposed to do into
The Revolution the year previous) removed to Boston and became
editor-in-chief; Lucy Stone was made assistant editor and H.B.
Blackwell business manager. This paper secured the patronage of all
those believers in the rights of women who were not willing to accept
the bold, fearless and radical utterances of The Revolution. The latter
had exhausted the finances of its friends and had no further resources.
The strain upon Miss Anthony, who alone was carrying the whole burden,
was terrible beyond description. Never was there a longer, harder, more
persistent struggle against the malice of enemies, the urgent advice of
friends, against all hope, than was made by this heroic woman. As the
inevitable end approached she wrote of it to Mrs. Stanton, who
answered: "Make any arrangement you can to roll that awful load off
your shoulders. If Anna Dickinson will be sole editor, I say, glory to
God! Leave me to my individual work, the quiet of my home for the
summer and the lyceum for the winter.... Tell our glorious little Anna
if she only will nail her colors to that mast and make the dear old
proprietor free once more, I will sing her praises to the end of time."

Anna Dickinson very wisely concluded that she was not suited for an
editor. Laura Curtis Bullard was much interested in reform work,
possessed of literary ability and very desirous of securing The
Revolution. Theodore Tilton, who was editing the New York Independent
and the Brooklyn Daily Union, promised to assist her in managing the
paper. Miss Anthony at last agreed to let her ha