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New York, March 1st 1866
Dear Miss Assing
I got your address from Mr. Douglass when here a month ago - meaning to write you - but the days and weeks have gone by.
I enclose the Standard's appeal - hope you will feel that you need it - I send you the copies containing the report of the Massachusetts A. S. Society and Mr. Phillip's Academy of Music speech - I spend most of my time at this office 48 Beekman St. and usually stop
You see how slightily our women's Petitions are treated by the Senators - but so were petitions for the Negroes in the olden days - We have at least saved the Nation from disgracing the Constitution by inserting the word Male - we can hardly estimate the value of that -
Truly yours
Susan B. Anthony
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THE NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD,
New York, March 1st 1866
Dear Miss Assing
I got your address from Mr. Douglass when here a month ago - meaning to write you - but the days and weeks have gone by.
I enclose the Standard's appeal - hope you will feel that you need it - I sent you the copies containing the report of the Massachusetts A. S. Society and Mr. Phillip's Academy of Music speech - I spend most of my time at this office 48 Beekman St. and usually stop nights with my friend Mrs. Stanton - I should be very glad to meet you - but at any rate I thought you would like now to give your mite to help sustain the only anti-slavery paper left -
You see how slight/ingly our women's Petitions are treated by the Senators - but so were petitions for the Negroes in the olden days - We have at least saved the Nation from disgracing the Constitution by inserting the word male - we can hardly estimate the value of that -
Truly yours
Susan B. Anthony
(14th Amendment presented to Congress April 14, passed June 13, sent to States for ratification June 13, 1866, with the word "male." May 10, 1866, American Equal Rights Association formed.)