[144] _Emancipation, the Duty of Government_, Ms., Lucy E. Anthony Collection. Reading that General Grant had returned 13 slaves to their masters, an indignant Susan B. Anthony wrote Mrs. Stanton, "Such gratuitous outrage should be met with instant death--without judge or jury--if any offense may." Feb. 27, 1862, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress. [145] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 221. [146] Jan. 24, 1904, Anna Dann Mason Collection. [147] Harper, _Anthony_, p. 226. [148] The first woman in the United States to obtain a medical degree, 1849. [149] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, pp. 57-58. [150] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 230. Members of the Women's National Loyal League wore a silver pin showing a slave breaking his last chains and bearing the inscription, "In emancipation is national unity." Susan B. Anthony to Mrs. Drake, Sept. 18, 1863, Alma Lutz Collection. [151] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 234. [152] _Ibid._, To Samuel May, Jr., Sept. 21, 1863, Alma Lutz Collection. [153] April 14, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. [154] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 230. [155] June 12, 1864, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, July 1, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. About this time, a friend of Susan B. Anthony's youth, now a widower living in Ohio in comfortable circumstances, unsuccessfully urged her to marry him. [156] Sept. 23, 1864, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress. [157] Stanton and Blatch, _Stanton_, II, pp. 103-104. [158] March 14, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. THE NEGRO'S HOUR Susan's thoughts now turned to Kansas, as they had many times since her brothers had settled there. Daniel and Annie, his young wife from the East, urged her to visit them.[159] Daniel was well established in Kansas, the publisher of his own newspaper and the mayor of Leavenworth. He had served a little over a year in the Union army in the First Kansas Cavalry. She longed to see him and the West that he loved. Now for the first time she felt free to make the long journey, for her mother and Mary had sold the farm on the outskirts of Rochester and had moved into the city, buying a large red brick house shaded by maples and a beautiful horse chestnut. It had been a wrench for Susan to give up the farm with its memories of her father, but there were compensations in the new home on Madison Street, for Guelma, her husband, Aaron McLean, and their family lived with them there. Hannah and her family had also settled in Rochester, and when they bought the house next door, Susan had the satisfaction of living again in the midst of her family.[160]