The Garrisons, Phillipses, Greeleys, and Beechers, False prophets, false guides, false teachers and preachers, Left Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, Brown, and Stone, To fight the Kansas battle alone; While your Rosses, Pomeroys, and your Clarkes Stood on the fence, or basely fled, While woman was saved by a Copperhead. Even more unforgivable than this to the abolitionist suffragists were the back-page advertisements of a new woman-suffrage paper, _The Revolution_, and of woman's rights tracts which could be purchased from Susan B. Anthony, Secretary of the American Equal Rights Association. That Susan would presume to line up this organization in any way with George Francis Train aroused the indignation of Lucy Stone, who felt the cause was being trailed in the dust. While Susan and Mrs. Stanton traveled homeward, enjoying the comfort of the best hotels and the applause of enthusiastic audiences, a coalition against them was being formed in the East. "All the old friends with scarce an exception are sure we are wrong," Susan wrote in her diary, January 1, 1868. "Only time can tell, but I believe we are right and hence bound to succeed."[206] FOOTNOTES: [185] Ms., Petition, Jan. 9, 1867, Alma Lutz Collection [186] Ms., note, 1893, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress. [187] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 278; _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, p. 284. [188] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 279. [189] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, p. 287. Petitions with 20,000 signatures were presented. [190] _Ibid._, p. 285. [191] Aug. 25, 1867, Alma Lutz Collection. [192] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, p. 287. [193] _Ibid._, pp. 234-235, 239. [194] _Ibid._, p. 252. [195] A famous family of singers who enlivened woman's rights, antislavery, and temperance meetings with their songs. [196] July 9, 1867, Anthony Papers, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. [197] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 284. [198] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, p. 242. [199] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 287. George Francis Train on his own initiative spoke for woman suffrage before the New York Constitutional Convention. [200] George Francis Train, _The Great Epigram Campaign of Kansas_ (Leavenworth, Kansas, 1867), p. 68. [201] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, pp. 248-249. [202] Train, _The Great Epigram Campaign of Kansas_, p. 40. [203] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 290. [204] Inscription by Susan B. Anthony on copy of Train's _The Great Epigram Campaign of Kansas_, Library of Congress. [205] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 293. [206] _Ibid._, p. 295. THE ONE WORD OF THE HOUR "If we women fail to speak the _one word_ of the hour," Susan wrote Anna E. Dickinson, "who shall do it? No man is able, for no man sees or feels as we do. To whom God gives the word, to him or her he says, 'Go preach it.'"[207]