Several editors threatened that, unless we did so, their papers should henceforth do their best to defeat every measure we proposed.

But we were deaf alike to persuasions and threats, thinking it wiser to labor for women, constituting, as they did, half the people of the State, rather than for a small number of colored men; who, viewing all things from the same standpoint as white men, would be an added power against us.
The question settled in Kansas, we returned, with George Francis Train, to New York.

He offered to pay all the expenses of the journey and meetings in all the chief cities on the way, and see that we were fully and well reported in their respective journals.

After prolonged consultation Miss Anthony and I thought best to accept the offer and we did so.

Most of our friends thought it a grave blunder, but the result proved otherwise.