ut thinks
they can not need it."

Miss Anthony, however, declined to be snubbed, subdued or displaced,
and wrote to Mrs. Stanton in the following vigorous style:

Mrs. Hooker's attitude is not in the least surprising. She is
precisely like every new convert in every reform. I have no doubt
but each of the Apostles in turn, as he came into the ranks,
believed he could improve upon Christ's methods. I know every new
one thought so of Garrison's and Phillips'. The only thing
surprising in this case is that you, the pioneer, should drop, and
say to each of these converts: "Yes, you may manage. I grant your
knowledge, judgment, taste, culture, are all superior to mine. I
resign the good old craft to you altogether." To my mind there
never was such suicidal letting go as has been yours these last two
years.

But I am now teetotally discouraged, and shall make no more
attempts to hold you up to what I know is not only the best for our
cause, but equally so for yourself, from the moral standpoint if
not the financial. O, how I have agonized over my utter failure to
make you feel and see the importance of standing fast and holding
the helm of our good ship to the end of the storm. Mr. Greeley's
"On to Richmond" backdown was not more sad to me, not half so sad.
How you can excuse yourself, is more than I can understand.

Mrs. Stanton commented to Mrs. Wright: "For your instruction in the
ways of the world, I send you Susan's letter. You see I am between two
fires all the time. Some are determined to throw me overboard, and she
is equally determined that I shall stand at the masthead, no matter how
pitiless the storm."

Mrs. Hooker found hers was a greater task than she had anticipated and
finally wrote Miss Anthony: "God knows, and you ought to know, that any
one who undertakes a convention has put self-seeking one side and is
nearer to being a martyr, stake, fagots and all, than any of us care to
be unless called by duty with a loud and unmistakable call. I shirked
the labor last year and pitied you because so much fell upon you, and
out of pure love to you and to the cause determined this time to take
all I could on my own shoulders, but you must come and help out."

Mrs. Stanton still persisted in her determination not to go to this
convention but Miss Anthony cancelled eight or ten lecture engagements,
at from $50 to $75 each, in order to be pr