To their minds the demand seemed so evident, so just and so forcible, that prejudice and opposition must yield in a short time and the foundation principles of the government be established in fact as well as in theory.
From New York she went to her birthplace, Adams, Mass., and spoke in the Baptist church.

Just as she began, to her amazement, her Quaker grandfather eighty-five years old came up the aisle and sat down on the pulpit steps.

While he had been very anxious that she should speak and that her lecture should be well advertised she had not expected him to be present, as he was not in the habit of entering an orthodox church.
She stopped at once, gave him her hand and assisted him to a seat in the pulpit, where he listened with deep interest.

When she finished he said: "Well, Susan, that is a smart talk thee has given us tonight." After Miss Anthony returned home, outraged nature asserted itself and at every moment the pain in her back was excruciating.

She went to a doctor for the first time in her life and was given a fly-blister and some drugs to put in whiskey.