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
Went to Tilton's office to express regrets at not being able to
attend their tin wedding. He read us his editorial on Seward and
Beecher. Splendid!... Went to hear Beecher, morning and evening.
There is no one like him.... Spent the day at Mrs. Tilton's and
went with her to Mrs. Bowen's.... Listened to O.B. Frothingham,
"Justice the Mother of Wisdom."... Put some new buttons on my
cloak. This is its third winter.... Excellent audience in Friends'
meeting house, at Milton-on-the-Hudson. Visited the grave of Eliza
W. Farnham.... Went over to New Jersey to confer with Lucy Stone
and Antoinette Blackwell.... Called at Dr. Cheever's, and also had
an interview with Robert Dale Owen.... Went to Worcester to see
Abby Kelly Foster and from there to Boston.... Found Dr. Harriot K.
Hunt ready for woman suffrage work. Took dinner at Garrison's. Saw
Whipple and May, then went to Wendell Phillips'.... Spent the day
with Caroline M. Severance, at West Newton. She is earnest in the
cause of women.... Returned to New York and commenced work in
earnest. Spent nearly all the Christmas holidays addressing and
sending off petitions.
Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton entered heartily into the plans
of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton. Mr. Tilton proposed that they should
form a National Equal Rights Association, demanding suffrage for
negroes and for women, that Mr. Phillips should be its president, the
Anti-Slavery Standard its official organ; and Mr. Beecher agreed to
lecture in behalf of this new movement. Mr. Tilton came out with a
strong editorial in the Independent, advocating suffrage for women and
paying a beautiful tribute to the efficient services in the past of
those who were now demanding recognition of their political rights:
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