But how ended that rebellion of weak colonists?
The cause of American womanhood, embodied for the moment in the liberty of a single individual, received a rebuff on June 17, 1873; but, just as surely as our Revolutionary heroes were in the end victorious, so will the inalienable rights of our heroines of the nineteenth century receive final vindication.
In his speech of 1880, before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, Wendell Phillips said--what as a rule is true--that "a reformer, to be conscientious, must be free from bread-winning." I will open Miss Anthony's accounts and show that this reformer, being, perhaps, the exception which proves the rule, has been consistently and conscientiously in debt.

Turning over her year-books the pages give a fair record up to 1863.

Here began the first herculean labor.

The Woman's Loyal League, sadly in need of funds, was not an incorporated association, so its secretary assumed the debts.

Accounts here became quite lamentable, the deficit reaching five thousand dollars.