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
Miss Anthony opposes holding National Conventions outside
Washington; extended range of letters and invitations; urges those
who can not work to contribute money; opening of World's Fair;
Bertha Honore Palmer's words for women; Miss Anthony behind
movement to have women on Board of Managers; President and Board of
Lady Managers; Woman's Congress; Miss Anthony center of attraction;
compliments from Frances Willard and Lady Somerset; letter of
Florence Fenwick Miller; Suffrage leads at Congress; letters from
Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. James P. Eagle; speech on Religious Press;
pleasant visits in Chicago; tribute from Inter-Ocean; Woman
Suffrage granted in Colorado; preparing for New York and Kansas
amendment campaigns.
CHAPTER XLII.
THE SECOND NEW YORK CAMPAIGN. (1894.) 755-776
Speeches in Ann Arbor, Toledo, Baltimore and Washington; no creeds,
no politics in National-American Association; congratulations of
Chicago Journal; great New York campaign inaugurated to secure
Amendment from Constitutional Convention; headquarters in Anthony
home; Corresponding Secretary Mary S. Anthony reports amount of
work done; opening rally in Rochester; women of wealth and fashion
in New York and Brooklyn take part; N. Y. World describes the
movement; "Remonstrants" organize; Miss Anthony's opinion of them;
600,000 signatures secured; Joseph H. Choate, President of
Constitutional Convention, uses his influence against Woman
Suffrage Amendment; Miss Anthony and many other women address
delegates; representatives of the "Antis" speak in opposition;
Edward Lauterbach and other members support Amendment; Elihu Root,
Wm. P. Goodelle and others oppose; Amendment Defeated; tribute by
State president, Mrs. Greenleaf; appreciative letters; incorrect
report of speech at Spiritualist camp meeting; Miss Anthony,
Frances Willard, Lady Somerset and others at Republican State
Convention in Saratoga; starting for Kansas.
CHAPTER XLIII.
THE SECOND KANSAS CAMPAIGN. (1894.) 777-798
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