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
A single instance will show how closely the question of woman's rights
was connected with that of anti-slavery in the popular mind. When Miss
Anthony and Mrs. Blackwell were at Fort William Henry, at the head of
Lake George, they spoke one evening in the hotel parlors. There were a
number of southerners present and many of them were delighted with the
meeting, whose doctrines were entirely new to them, and made liberal
contributions. The next day the speakers left in the stage with one of
these, Judge John J. Ormond and his two daughters, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
He told Miss Anthony he had been instrumental in securing many laws
favorable to women in that state and it would be a pleasure to him to
see that their memorial was presented to the Alabama Legislature. When
she reached home she sent it to him with the following letter:
Enclosed is a copy of our woman's rights memorial. Will you give me
a full report of the action taken upon it?... I hope you and your
daughters arrived home safe. Say to the elder I shall be most happy
to hear from her when she shall have fairly inaugurated some noble
life work. I trust each will take to her soul a strong purpose and
that on her tombstone shall be engraved her own name and her own
noble deeds instead of merely the daughter of Judge Ormond, or the
relict of some Honorable or D. D. When true womanhood shall be
attained it will be spoken of and remembered for itself alone. My
kindest regards to them, accompanied with the most earnest desire
that they shall make truth and freedom the polar star of their
lives.
To this Judge Ormond made cordial reply, October 17, 1859:
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