The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 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 2 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
MANY TRIPS--FIRST VOTE ON SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT. (1886-1887.) 605-626
Miss Anthony's persistence with members of Congress; Eighteenth
Washington Convention; committee reports; canvass of the State of
Kansas; Municipal Suffrage Bill passed by Legislature; speaking
throughout Wisconsin; advice as to Church for holding convention;
History of Woman Suffrage and valuable work accomplished by it;
opinions of Mary L. Booth, Sarah B. Cooper and others; Nineteenth
Annual Convention; Senator Blair's bill for Woman Suffrage;
Senators Brown and Vest in opposition; Senators Dolph and Blair in
favor; remonstrance from Boston; the Vote; women incensed at
Ingalls; letter to Frances Willard on Prohibition Party; letter to
Olympia Brown against bringing suit under school suffrage law;
scores Senator Ingalls in Kansas; canvass of Indiana.
CHAPTER XXXV.
UNION OF ASSOCIATIONS--INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL. (1888.) 627-645
American Association proposes Union; negotiations to that end; plea
for Mrs. Stanton's election as president; Union completed;
International Council of Women; magnitude of preparations; Miss
Anthony's idea of a sermon; letter of Douglass on First Woman's
Rights Convention; letter of Maria Mitchell; efforts to secure Mrs.
Stanton's presence; comment of Baltimore Sun and N. Y. World;
Frances Willard's speech and letter to Union Signal; National and
International Councils formed; at Central Music Hall, Chicago;
letter urging women to go to National Political conventions; open
letter to General Harrison; Republican "free ballot" plank does not
include Women; dislike of "red tape;" speech at Columbus W. C. T.
U. celebration not well received.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CONVENTIONS FROM WASHINGTON TO SOUTH DAKOTA. (1889.) 647-661
Twenty-first Washington Convention; address before Unity Club,
Cincinnati; death of niece Susie B.; letters on Death; newspaper
comment on Dress; at Seidl Club on Coney Island and "Broadbrim's"
account; a round of lectures and conventions; letter of Harriet
Hosmer; canvass of South Dakota; Miss Anthony outlines plan of
campaign; nephew D. R. describes speech at Ann Arbor; "Andrew
Jackson-like responsibility"; work for South Dakota; description in
Washington Star.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
AT THE END OF SEVENTY YEARS. (1890.) 663-678
Consternation at idea of selling tickets for Birthday banquet;
description of banquet by Washington Star and N. Y. Sun; speeches
of Rev. F. W. Hinckley, Hon. J. A. Pickler, Mrs. Stanton and Miss
Anthony; congratulatory letters from distinguished people; eloquent
tributes from Boston Traveller and Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle; first Convention of United Associations; money for South
Dakota; in Washington society; letter on pre-natal influence.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
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