It was hard for Susan to forgive the _Antislavery Standard_ for what she regarded as a breach of trust. Financed by the Hovey Fund, it owed allegiance, she believed, to women as well as the Negro. In protest Parker Pillsbury resigned his post as editor, but among the leading men in the antislavery ranks, only he, Samuel J. May, James Mott, and Robert Purvis, the cultured, wealthy Philadelphia Negro, were willing to support Susan and Mrs. Stanton in their campaign for woman suffrage at this time. The rest aligned themselves unquestioningly with the Republicans, although in the past they had always been distrustful of political parties. Discouraging as this was for Susan, their influence upon the antislavery women was far more alarming. These women one by one temporarily deserted the woman's rights cause, persuaded that this was the Negro's hour and that they must be generous, renounce their own claims, and work only for the Negroes' civil and political rights. Less than a dozen remained steadfast, among them Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Ernestine Rose, and for a time Lucy Stone, who wrote John Greenleaf Whittier in January 1867, "You know Mr. Phillips takes the ground that this is 'the Negro's hour,' and that the women, if not criminal, are at least, not wise to urge their own claim. Now, so sure am I that he is mistaken and that the only name given, by which the country can be saved, is that of WOMAN, that I want to ask you ... to use your influence to induce him to reconsider the position he has taken. He is the only man in the nation to whom has been given the charm which compels all men, willing or unwilling, to listen when he speaks ... Mr. Phillips used to say, 'take your part with the perfect and abstract right, and trust God to see that it shall prove expedient.' Now he needs someone to help him see that point again."[184] FOOTNOTES: [159] Daniel R. Anthony married Anna Osborne of Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, in 1864. [160] Before buying the house on Madison Street, then numbered 7, Mrs. Anthony and Mary lived for a time at 69 North Street, Rochester. Hannah and Eugene Mosher bought the adjoining house on Madison Street in 1866. Aaron McLean took over his father-in-law's profitable insurance business. [161] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 241. [162] Feb. 14, 1865, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress. [163] Ms., Diary, April 27, 1862. [164] Feb. 14, 1862, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress. [165] _Ibid._ [166] _Ibid._, April 19, 1862. [167] Ms., Diary, April 26, 27, 1865. [168] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 245. [169] The _Liberator_ ceased publication, Dec. 29, 1865. [170] Ms., Diary, June 30, July 3, 1865. [171] Harper, _Anthony_, II, pp. 960-967. [172] Stanton and Blatch, _Stanton_, II, p. 105. [173] _Ibid._; Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 244. [174] Ms., Diary, Aug. 7, Sept. 5, 20, 1865. [175] _Ibid._, Nov. 26-27, 1865. [176] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 251.