The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty YearsHarper, Ida Husted
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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
Harper, Ida Husted
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
The trustees of the Methodist church said I could have it for my
meeting, but the minister protested and put the key into his
saintly pocket. Brown Stafford said to him, "Keep that key, if you
dare! I guess Uncle Read and Uncle John Stafford and I have done
enough to build and sustain that church to warrant us in having our
say about it full as much as you, sir;" and he was compelled to
give up the key. Uncle Read went to aunt and said: "I have not
thought of going to an evening meeting in a long time, but I will
go tonight if it kills me." So they went, also the very best of the
folks from both sides of the river, and I seldom have spoken
better. Uncle seemed very much pleased, and when Aunt Mary and the
trustees urged me to take the school again, he said: "No, some one
ought to go around and set the people thinking about the laws and
it is Susan's work to do this."
Miss Anthony reached home, October 1, after seven months' constant
travel and hard work, and on the 17th went to the National Woman's
Rights Convention at Philadelphia and gave the report for New York. It
was through her determined efforts, overcoming the objection that she
was an atheist and declaring that every religion or none should have an
equal right on their platform, that Mrs. Rose was made president. She
met here for the first time Anna and Adeline Thomson, Sarah Pugh and
Mary Grew, and was the guest of James and Lucretia Mott, who
entertained twenty-four visitors in their hospitable house during all
the convention. This is the quaint invitation sent her by Mrs. Mott:
"It will give us pleasure to have thy company at 338 Arch street, where
we hope thou wilt make thy home. We shall of course be crowded, but we
expect thee and shall prepare accordingly. We think such as thyself,
devoted to good causes, should not have to seek a home." Wm. Lloyd
Garrison sat at her right hand at table and Miss Anthony at her left.
At the conclusion of each meal she had brought in to her a little cedar
tub filled with hot water and washed the silver, glass and fine china,
Miss Anthony drying them with the whitest of towels, while the
brilliant conversation at the table went on uninterrupted.
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