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Creator: Lawrence, Margaret Stanton
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Show more<3 (:._.;t: aw ' ~ -_ c»,~';:v:.e:: ‘ 1. M . .1 " " a. -, \ "‘ ., ‘ ( V ’ — 7 * * — , ’ V _ ~" . V . 3, , y ‘ , P‘ v , - 5 . , 5- ' a v V I I . I ; . \‘ V _ 3 :3 D » ., / » ‘ O 4,. r. . 3 ‘V _ x ~. “ » , ; , ’*‘~ ’ A , , ‘ . .. \ 1 _, 4 _ - .3 "~ , . \ ., . « I 7 K . ‘ 1 . \ L. , V V - . ‘ ' _ [3 J4 .- 1» a ‘ A ‘ A ; ' w G o 1 ~ / , , - 4 / ': ~~,§§- 1» WHO WAS ELIZABETH CADY STANTON? 1815~1902 MY MOTHER By Margaret Stanton Lawrence In 3 Parts. Part 1 Picture of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Mrs Stanton was the first person in the world to ask for votes for women, away back in 1848. And as the ballot has now been given to all the women of the United States, I thought this would be a good time to tell the rising generation of young people something about the home life of the individual who started the whole question of suffrage for her sex. ._‘,.4:- 94. \\‘ ELIZ.&ETH cm STANTQN y Earl Bars iﬁ Jehnstcwn , Y 3 Over one hundred years age, a little girl was born whese meme Wee destined to be keen by the gee ideas ehe set adrift. JAIﬁie ehild was Elizabeth Cedyg TShe first saw the light ef day November 12,Li§15, en the hills of Johnsﬁewng Fulton Cagney, ﬂew York. Her iether, Daniel Cady, was e renowned jurist; he set on the bench of the Supreme Court %and Court of Appeals, of New York State, till he was ever eighty years of age, A.life~eized portrait of him hangs in the Capitol at Albany. Her metherﬁ Margaret Livingston,'Wes a tell, handsome eomanﬁ a daughter ef Gel. James Livingsten, who served on General Weshingten‘s eteff during ﬁhe Revolutionary Ear. Ere. Cady was a daring horse~woman9 she was full of "vim? and “go”, so that Elizabeth inherited beauty, breine ana fight freezbeth eidee of her family. % She eas breught up in the midst of ease ané luxury; ené this makes it the mere remarkable that, even in her youth, she sheule have felt so keenly the injustice of the laws bearing on eemen. ’«3®t'.i=Is&’$-ﬂ95G$¢SG$€&E§Qﬁ$$'$ ¢ 1 I 5 3 G 9 :3 3 Picture 1 3 5 <° 5 3 of : 3 e 3 *3’ » . ° §‘:’§Z‘S 3 Cadgf 3 5.» m ‘ , 5’ w ,,_3:”, .» . , g :4: k 3 Q 4; -_., etcedoeaocca-sweetie-necoetﬂ Childhood I erwaye like te knew haw the people lack that I am.reediﬂg abﬁutv There were no photographs taken in those far-off days so I was glad to come upon this pen picture of my mother: “Elizabeth Cady was a plump little girl with very fair skin, rosy cheeks, good features, dark brown curly hair, laughing blue eyes, and beautiful tooth“. Those merry blue eyes were one of her marked features through life. An event that made a deep impression upon her, as a child, was the birth of a sister. Before she saw the now arrival, she heard several people say, “What a pity that the baby is another girl!" There were already four girls in the family, so when tho nurse took her in to see the little stranger, Elizabeth felt a kind of compassion for the baby. She remarked, in later life, "I didn't understand then that girls were considered an inferior order of beings." In those days there were no law schools in the United States. To the most noted lawyer in any region, the young man went who desired to study law. Judge Cady’s law offices, which adjoined his house, were famous all over the land and students came from the four points of the compass to be under his tutelage. Elizabeth’s Interest in the Law. my mother, from her earliest years, was constantly in her father’s offices, deeply interested in all that was going on there particularly in hearing the students talk about the laws they were studying. There was nothing those boys enjoyed more than roading aloud to Elizabeth all the bad laws they came upon relating to women. They found much more interesting to see her fly into a rage than to pore over musty law books. They always had a new batch ready whenever she appeared. Johnstown was in the midst of a large farming district, and Elizabeth often sat on hot father’s knee as he talked to his clients, especially if they were the wives of farmers who came to tell the tender-hearted judge of how unjustly they were being treated by their husbands. The cases often concerned the farm, on which many of the women had been born, and which frequently had been left them by their fathers before they were married. In 1823, no married woman could own property, If, as a girl, she had inherited a piece of land, the moment she married John Jones it passed into his hands. Everything she possessed his; her clothes, her false teeth even! If he took them away, she couldn't masticate her food! And she had no redress. The money she earned ever the wash~tub was likewise his, and he could collect it at the end of the day from the people for whom she worked! Worse still, he didn’t have to give her any of it. And this right of a husband to collect hie wife‘e wages was the law in California till 1910; when the women won the vote in that state. The Judge was explaining all these laws to old Sarah, whose ne‘er-do-well husband had mortgaged the beautiful farm which she had inherited from her father when she was a girl, till there was very little left. Sarah always supplied the Judge's family with eggs; butter, chickens, cider, and other good things, so that little Elizabeth looked upon her as a kind of lady bountiful, when she appeared at the week~ends. My grandfather got down many books and read the laws to Sarah to show her why he could not help her; however, petting her on the back, he told her he would put her on one of the best farms he owned, stock it for her, and she could have all she made from it, and could stay there as long as she lived. But it was justice not charity that the old woman wanted. Elizabeth had not been idle during this interview; When her father finished with a book, she quietly marked each law that he had read, turned down the leaf, and put the books back on the shelves upside down, so that she would know them. She followed the weeping woman into the street and when out of sight of the office she threw her arms about her, bade her cry no more, and told her that she had marked every one of those wicked laws, and that when the men had left the offices that evening she was going back and would cut them all out of the books. "Then", she said, "your troubles will be over!" As soon as Sarah could get rid of the child, she hurried back to Judge Cady and told him what his little intended doing. So, after supper, he took Elizabeth over to his office, and there, with the child seated on his knee, before the crackling logs of a big fireplace he told my mother how laws were made by the legislators at Albany, that his library was only one of many all over the state, that even if it burned up it would make no difference, that when people wanted to get the laws changed they had to go to Albany, talk to the legislators, and get them to alter the laws, then new books would be printed and the old ones laid aside. Little did that conservative judge dream that what no woman had ever done would, in years to come, be done by that very daughter of his. He unconsciously planted the seeds of rebellion in that fertile brain; and when grown to womanhood, the mother of four sons and a daughter, she took two nurses and two babies with her, and, leaving them at the Delevan house, went up to the Capitol building and made her first speech before a legislature on tﬁa unjust laws pertaining to married women. That was in 1854. 3i=39!?!&$a!Q5§9$'DiD9Q3@'8§§I§i§ -------------------------- : Picture : : of : : Judge Cady : -------------------------- Loss of her only Brother During my mother's childhood Judge and Mrs. Cady lost their only son, a fine, manly fellow, who had just graduated, with high honors, from Union College, JUDGE DANIEL CADY. Schenectady, N. Y. It nearly broke my grandfather's heart. He was always saying to Elizabeth, when she tried to console him, "Oh, my daughter, if you had only been a boy!“ Throwing her arms about him, she said “I will try to be all my brother was." She resolved to study hard and stand at the head of her class, to learn Greek, Latin, the higher mathematics, and to ride horseback--all of which resolves she carried out. Rev. Simon Hosack. Judge Cady‘s next door neighbor was an old Scotch Presbyterian clergyman, the Rev. Simon Hosack. Elizabeth was a great pet of his. Whenever she was in trouble she ran at once to consult him, she was eleven years old at this time. One morning, as he was working in his garden before breakfast, She came running over to ask him which he liked the better, girls or boys. "Why, girls of course," he replied, “I wouldn't give you for all the boys in Christendom." “My father doesn't feel that way," said the child, "he prefers boys, he wishes I had been one, and I intend to be as nearly like one as I possibly can. I am going to learn to ride horseback and swim, and I want to study Latin and Greek. Will you give me a Greek lesson now, Doctor? I want to begin at once”. “Yes, dear child," he said throwing dawn his hoe, come into my library and we will start without delay." He entered fully into the feeling of suffering that possessed the little girl, and putting into her hands the old grammar he had used in the University of Glasgow, Scotland, he taught her the Greek article before breakfast. Elizabeth Cady was educated in the old Academy in Johnstown. The girls and boys were all in the same classes, except in the languages and higher mathematics. In these subjects my mother was the only girl among a number of boys, mast of them older than she, who were preparing for college. She was always running races with John Wells to see who should stand at the head of the class. Some- timas it’W&$ Jﬁhﬂg aamﬁéimaﬁ @lﬁZa%@€h$ She carrieé cff any cf tha prizes, buﬁ, when flushed with iriumphg she ran té her father’s affice and laid thasa traasn uras im his 1ap§ and 1o§kad up inta his face for a word of praise; his mag ram spansa was; “Chi if you had only'been a bag.” Thus it was bcrne in uyan har, at an early age; that boys saemad ta ﬁe mars hivhly valuad than girls. The iran sank deep inio her Saul and aha ﬁeterminsd is see what she c@u1d do to lif% ﬁha terrible edium aﬁtached ta al1‘W@mankinﬁ¢ “Eighty years and I quate the follawing from.my mothergs autabiagraphyg Msre“:!"FroH;the Jchnstown ﬁcadamy many of tha bays 0f my glass wsnﬁ ta Enian H Collegeﬁ S$h@ﬂ@§ﬁ&ﬂy¢ ‘When those‘with‘whom.I had studied and aonﬁaﬁdad far ‘prizes for aver fiva years saws ta bid me goodubya, and I learned 0f the barrier that prevented my follwwing in their footstegs, ‘No girls amiﬁted here?, my vexation and marﬁification knew mg bounds. I remsm$er nsw how'prauﬁ amd%hamdsoma the boys lacked in their naw clothes as they jumpad an the staga~caach and drsve off, and haw lonaly I felt after they were gone, and I had aathing ta do, for the plans far my future were not yet determined. I felt mnrg kaenlf than aver ﬁhe humiliatian of the distinciion made on the grounds cf sex." There was not a oﬁilege for girls in the'world at that time;~1830. (Oberlin Collegeﬁ in Ohie, was nut o§ened till 1833.) The Emma‘Wi11ard Schecl. In family ceumcil it was decided to send Elizabeth is tha Emma ﬁillard ,Sehoa1 aﬁ Tray, N. Y.; the mast calebraiad educaﬁional instiﬁutian far girls to study but French, music and dancing. in ﬁha United States at that data¢ Alasi when Elizabeth reaahadfﬁwxéfﬂshe I’-£3 fauna that her sﬁudias in the excallant Jehnstcwn Acad@m§"had carried her far bavand the mast aﬁvanaeﬁ glasses in.her new schgcl. There as ngthimg fer her . t, . 2.3 W- ,,_. kylk“ She was so disgusted when she learned this and thought of her boy chums at Union College, only a few miles away, going on into the higher realms of study; that she burst into tears at the injustice of it all. But being a good deal of a philosopher, she pitched into French and music with all her might, and wrote home to her father for the extra money needed for the dancing lessons. The judge promptly wrote back that he was perfectly willing to pay out any amount of money to educate her head, but would give nothing to educate her heels! He was toe mush of a Puritan to believe in dancing. Elizabeth Cady, even as a girl, rarely let any men get the better of her in an argument. She sent off an epistle post-haste, “Thank you, dear father, but your letter shows great ignorance, dancing is done on the toes not on the heels! So please send me the money by return mail." And he did, for Daniel Cady was too just a judge not to know When he was worsted in a case! Educating a Young Man for the Ministry. In these early days girls and women were always doing things to educate young men for something that these sons of Adam were not able to accomplish by their own efforts. My mother was the leader of a club of girls in their church which had undertaken to raise funds to educate a young man for the ministry. They sewed, baked, brewed tea and coffee, held fairs and sociables to pay his way through the Auburn Theological Seminary. When he was ready to graduate, they sent him money to buy a new suit of black broadcloth, a high hat, and a cane. Then they invited him to come and preach them a serman in the presbyterian Church, the largest in the town. Everyone turned out to hear him. The front pews were reserved for the girls. When the church was full and the psychological moment had arrived, the club marched in, head by my mother, and took their seats, all dressed in spring attire, each girl on the tiptoe of expectation to hear what their youthful theolagua wnuld say. I shall never forget hearing my mother describe that scene ta an audi~ enea in Chiaagag when she was on one of her lecturing trips. After dilating on haw faithfully that club of girls had worked to aducaie liha young man, in her round, rich voiae, she askaﬁ that vast assembly; “Ana what do ycu think, my friends: he took for his text? That passage of the Scriptures which says, Pausing a momsnﬁ ts let her hearers catch the full significance of ihe ﬁhingg ﬁrs. Stanton remarked in a slow} distincﬁ tone, “we never aducatadanQih~ eri” Hef hearers bursi agﬁ into shcuts of laughter and ayplausaa Some man called ou%5 "I should hope net." when quigg was restored, mother‘went on to relate haw those girls turned and looked at cue ancther for just a momsnt, than all arose, and with heads l ‘they erect, drawing themselves ug to their full height, two by twg/marched dawn that lang aisle and out into the streei. They never stcpped ta hear ona ward ha said. And the huga Chicagc audience, 50 years after the incidenﬁ, shonisd they selves hearse calling, "Bravo! bravoil for those girls, and thraa eheers for Elizabeﬁh Cady' Stantoni" Girlhood. my grandfather had a large stable full of good driving and saddle horses, carriages and slaighs of all descriptiens. He didn’t allow his ﬁaughters to gs anywhere with young E@n.n1ess he prsvided the horses far horsebask riﬂing, ar the vehicles for driving, nor ceuld they go to public anﬁertainmgats unless he provided the tickets. This being'well understeod the Cady gir1s'wera graaé , . many favcrltes, and as grandmmther kept open house, and there wara%alway§[nice yaupg. man studying law in her husband’s offices, they never lacksd for asserts. A.most amusing incident occurred in connectian with a certain yaung man fror* T ’ 0 .* - ~ ﬁ - u . \ u‘Ln1on aullega, wna was spending hlS Chrlsﬁmaﬁ vaoatlgn at the Cady manﬁicn. 10 It was oviéont that he was quito smitton with y mothor; he had boon toooing her for being gush o chattorbox, and said he didn’t boliovo she could keep still too minutoo, she emphatically vowing she oould'olohout diffioulﬂy.% lhoro was o party of these gouﬁg §eOple gothorod about tho piano singing, lough~ ing and talking by turns. It was a glorious moonlight night anﬁ fins sloighingg so or. Blank oroposoo to my mother thotthoy go for a ride, and ooo if sho really ooulo koop still.l She sent oorﬂ to Peter to héoo a sloigh harnessed, and she left the room.togot ready. Her sister ﬁoogo went with hor,ﬁ:§E[$hor£1y appeared in the drowingoroom and told ﬁr. Blank heﬂﬂfbettor got on his coat, as the sleigh: was at tho door and his lady already io. So the young man rushoé out iﬁgw the hall, donned his fur coat, cap and gloves ond popped in booido his companion, ﬁll the young folks troopod out on the piazza to see them otort. The ooaohmon handed him.tho lines and finiohed tucking in tho robes; »’Eid shouts from.tho porch and answering ones from.the sleigh they dashed off, the bolls ringing mor- rily as they disappoorod in the moonlight. 0 "Iso‘t this o glorious night for o sloigh~rido, Eiss Elizabothﬁﬁ romorkod or. B. ﬁe ?oply. ﬁftor making several more attempts and getting Mo"ansWors hel “Uh; oomo now, thoro’ooo’t be any fun riding if you aro not going to talks I didn‘t really moan What I said, I knoo you oon koop still if you oono to, I was only fooling.“ Still his companion modo no roply.l The horse was guito a gag ono/(Juogo Ca&§ liked good horse flesh; his - 7 an I ‘i. __. * Wife and all hio¢ lﬁwooulo ride and drivo'anything)3 and kept tho young man busy trying to control it. But after a whilo he said, “ooll, if you are not going to talk we might as ooll drive home,“ Still the young lady made no answor, so after a little he turned the horse and drove boob lf iiss Cody kept oil hor lovers at onm‘s length, they never droamod of touching her, house o y or. olonk had not loiﬁ his hand on hor arm.ond bogged her 11 to ﬁargive him and speak; when he drové up in frcné cf the hangs all its inhabitants game out on tha giazza, inquiring how he had enjoyed his ridgﬁ anﬁ fcremgst among_ them was my moﬁher, Elizabeth Cayi As acon as Era Blaﬁk saw'har he gasped and turning to the lady besiﬁe him, he axclaimad, “Far haavenis sake; Wiﬁh whom.have I been ridiﬁg: Julia Jones?” a gﬁ%%» girl Wham ha thaﬁaughly daw- ﬁastad. ’ “Bring in the yeung lady; Peter; and shaw Mr. Blank wha it is,“ 1aughn inglycallad Gui Elizabath Sady. It was a feather bolster dressad up in ha? alathesi Ehe yang man wa$ SQ maé,, SQ digusted ﬁhai he mever fully §ogave my moﬁhér the joke she ylayaﬁ on him. E3 soon transfarrad his devetiens to soﬁemoae alas, WhQm.1atar he married. The news spread as far ﬁawn the Mohawk Vallay as Sghanactady and when he gﬁt back he collega, the ﬁoys would say5 “So yam Wenﬁ sleighing with a bolster up in Johnsﬁown, Slamk, dié yea enjoy your ri&e?“ ﬂy Kwﬁher, I have been ﬁeld, was a very beautiful yvung wnmaag Ska wag brilliani in cenveraatien, sang and played wall on the pianc and guiiar, was a graceful danger, one whose society was aiways scughts aha had me and 9f admirw ers,'was a fearless hcrsewwow 1, coulé laap any fence or,jum@ any éitch. Euﬁj she had 3 sericus side to her naﬁuras she was an omniveréus reaé E, af staaéaré Eeaks, ever éelving into social questiéns and trying ta solve knotty prmblemsa Sh8‘W&S particularly fond ofarguing with learnadzmen. In diacuasion she aiways kept her temper, was quick to parceive and.to take aﬁvanﬁage sf 3 1@0p*hQ183 or a flaw in an Qppcnent’s argumant, and she was blessed Wiﬁh a kean sensa of humara 311 my grs¢&mother*s daughters were well trained in hausa§§}é ﬂuties, and; natwithstanding there were many'sarvan%s in the house§ aash§¢¢h%Ww%r“Was obliged Q V~..._ to spend a certain lengﬁh of time every day attending ta her special task. 12 Gorrit Smith . Elizabeth Cady was brought up in tho midst of the most oonoorvativo; sooﬁarian surroundings; How she became so liberal, along so many lines, has always been an interesting study to mo; one of iho poiont influences in the life of this wideuawako young Womn was her oogstant visiting at the home of her cousing Gorrit Smith, the aboliw tionist, at Potefboro, New York. His daughter Elizabeth anﬂ my mother formed a strong friendship that lastoé all thoir 1iVBSa Grandfothor did not altogether approve of these visits; ”5udgo Cody ad» mired his brilliant nophoo'and appreciated his sterling oharaoiorg but ovary fibre of his being rovoltod against the aovanood opinions of Gorrit Smith. However, the two families were so knitted togothor by relationship and sinooro friendship ﬁhat a rupturowas absolutely impossible, so Elizabeth Cady osoapod oonstantly from the religious austerity of her homo into the swootor3 froor at» mospher of the ?etorboro household," wvitoo my sister, Harriot Stanton Blatoh. “Tho Potooboro house was spacious, and always full of choice society", Writes my mother; "hero you met scholars, philosophers, philanthoopigts, judges; bis~ hops, artists, musicians, and statomon. \ ........ There novor'wao such an atmosphoﬁoof peace, freedom ano good cheer, nor were there over two such hosts as Cousin Nancy and Cousin Gorrit.” There were tins when anﬁi-slavery was tho all~absorbing EOpi3a Through the portals of the home at Poterboro stopped Wendell Phillips; ﬁilliam Lloyﬂ Garm rison, Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown} As it was one of the stations on the “Under Ground Railway", the outnbuildings often harbored runaway slaves, resting for a day or so till Mr. Smith was able to convey thomby oar- riago, or sleigh, safely to Canaéa, Where, the moment they stopped foot on English soil, freodom.awaitod thom. My mother saw and oonvorsed with those runaway slaves and heard from.thoir own lips the tales of their tortures; Thus it was that she early became interested in the sad lot of that much abused race; Every possible phase of political and social life come up for discussion at Peterfboro, and as those who did thetalking,were the leaers of thought of that day you can readily judge of the influence all this had on the open mind of my mother. . . , , Henry Brewster Stanton It was at Peten¥boro that Elizabeth Cady first met Henry Brewster Stentonﬁ _ re a direct descendant of Elder’ﬁi1liam,BreWster, who came over in the Mayflower, Mr. Stanton‘wae then considered the most eloquent aod impassioned orator on the anti-slavery pletforme eHe was a finemlooking man, ten years ow mother‘e senior» Elizabeth Cady had a passion for oratory, who unuotal powers and earnest» mess of Mr. Stanton soon made a deep impression upon her. Carriegewloads of ladies and gentlemen drove off every morning to dttend the anti~s1avery meetings that were being hold all over Eadison Gounty. The enthuoiesm.of the people in these great gatherings, the thrilling oratory, were experiences never to be forgotten. My mother says in her autobiography,- "I became deeply interested in anti~s1avory and temperance questions; saeeoeseee I felt a new inspiration in life, and was enthused with new ideas of individual rights; for the anti-slavery platform was the best sooool the American poopie ever had in which tolemmoteepublioan prinoioles of government." Her‘ﬁedding Journqyg I The result of that meeting in Peterboro in Ootoben,1839,'Wao a wedding in Johnotown, N. Ye; im.May, 1840. Judge and ﬁrs. Cody oppoeed.th9tmarriagé Ld of their :w@5%ﬁ{“ fdaughter to "a radical“; but the young P90P19 were Obduratga 14 and a'wedding trip follcwed ts tha'§br1d’s Antiwslavery Convention heﬁd in Lcnden, England; in June, 1840; My father was Secretary ef the Convantion; as well as one of ths delagates fr¢m;£he United States‘ E333 Amsriéan*wmmen had also been sent as delegates, but on account of English prajudisasg based on asriptural texts; thay-were net permitteﬁ to take ﬁhair seats an tha flocrg so had ta sit in the galleries and look on ignomigfuslyi There were many ringing appeals made in that greai hall $0 seat tha Woman 1 delegatas from.th@ United States; My father; I aﬂzprcué £0 say, made an impassionm ’ ed speech in their favor, William Lloyd Garrison %i11iamKL10yd Garrison, the knowledge of Whose eloquence was wcrldwwideg and whQm.a11 England had be@n.anxieus to hear; was so indignant at the insult to his counirywemen that he refused to take his saai an the flaer, and sat silent in tirza §~‘§a.1.1ef3? ‘z»*«z'i‘t;h. the ”¥HC}31'L*?31T'1a ~ /7/5‘/7 ‘‘‘’7/(/’'‘‘ , M/%% Z“‘“;,‘Z f 3&4 7 / &/Z:-L/-:1 /9/éjisaniel O‘Conne11 Daniel O‘C0nnel1$ the great Irish oratcrg made his first agpearanca aﬁ the world‘s Coneniioné a few days after the women delegates had beeﬁ rejected. He paid a beautiful tribuﬁa to wamam and saiﬂ ﬁhat if he had been presanﬁ an the opening day he wmulé have spaken in her f&VQfa‘ Gssaecuaoosaatasoaesma we can) i‘ I 1: 5 o st :1 2 t 85 m ‘Piciure af 99 Lucreﬁia Mﬁﬁt : «: 9G!'DlQ'U!*ItﬁCQI!I<IOOC~1ﬂ!Q*3 - 4. \ ' '~,'i.’.f~‘: V H ‘\ ﬂ’ ' . ,g,;l,§»s."'” 15 Lueretieemeei These scenes all made e etreng impression on ehe heppy young brideg Eliz- abeth Ceey Stanton; One ether experience meée this cenventicnmemereble ﬁe my meeher. Threughouﬁ its sessions ehe set in the gallery next to Leeretie mﬁﬁt§ the distinguished Quaker yreeeher free ?hiledelphie; she end Ere“ eeee became well eequehted. eﬁother afterward ereee oﬁ her: “She was is me an entirely nee revelem tiem.of Wﬁmﬁﬂhﬁgdascseseasacstcal shell never cease te be grateful fer ﬁhe pet» ieeee eed seeming pleeeure with ehieh she fed my huegering Sﬁﬂlasssseeeseseseaea Eben I first heerd frem.her lips that I had the eeme right he ehine fer myself that Luther} ﬁelvie end Jeen Knox bed; end the eeme right he be guideda by my Gen eenvietione; I felt e eeewbern sense of dignity ewe freedeen“ These ewe ﬂiew cussed the grebleme of life fer the eomen cf thee egg, and decided} en their re~ tureﬂee emerieeg he eell e eonventien with the ebjeet “ef deeiing eéequetely eith the rights cf eomen". This meeting did et take piece, heeeverg till 1848» ey perente trevelled all overﬁngleedg Ire1end5*Sce£1end end§ be eeme ex~ teeiﬁ Freeeeg and feihee spake in all the large citiee ef the British :S1$5e On returning is her native lend; meeher,eee eekeeeeeet ehe had seen eeeeee that ieierested her meet. Her promgt reply eee, “Lucretia eeeeiﬁ While in ﬁublinﬁ Irelend, they were eeeerteineé by Daniel G‘Gonne11§ eke "Qreet $ieeriee“3 as he wee eelled. During dinner, Ere, Steeiee eeked him.if he heped ﬁe geie liberty for Ireland; “Ne”, he eeid; “but ii ie elweye geed eeliey ﬁe claim the ettermoetg and when yen will get eemethingﬁe caashesocosoaocnesavaaseoaoessn Q ‘ '3 Q 55 Q Q ,. > at A //"’""“"‘-. 5 _,;~'' .3 9; an U ‘,~~/ I W ﬁqgﬁurexcf 3 Q, . V 3 ‘1 ‘V ‘_', I... »-~‘“="_’“"' _ Q s . Eeeeegﬁezlree treln ; 1 [4, V ~..,\\‘ Q \( /1;?" ‘ ‘_ §§¥“»-3,_: C If,/"' 5 3‘ G 1* § a ﬁggggibiﬁiiﬁiftﬁﬁ~§9§O&$O!O$Q89‘ Hbmaward Bcunﬁ §hen.mothar wenﬁ in Troy to school she rode on the firsi railreaé built in ﬁhe United Statesg which rau between Schaneciady ané Albany. My parenﬁs WBm$ ﬁg Europe an a sailing vessslg But they camﬁ hemg an ﬁha first steamﬁr ﬁhat ever crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the iggfius” of the Cunard Lineg All threugh her evantful life she di& things ﬁhat ware beiﬁg dame for the first timai On their returnimr. and ﬁrs. Stanton wenﬁ to Jahns%awn$'where thgy ran maimed under ﬁhe parantal reaf fof twp yearsa Faihar studied law in Granéfather§s effice. Esther busiad herself reading law, historyg ad galitieal agansmyg but in 1842 all her thoughts were turned to the ﬁractical one; mf'hat ts ﬁe iﬁﬁ a baby. Sha says; “Though mwtherhsad is the mst important of all tha professions; requiring mre knawledga than any oﬁher departmsnt of human affairs, there is not sufficient attention given to the preparation for this high office.” In September, 1842, she gave birth to a fiﬂe boy, Whm was nameﬁ afiar his graméfathar5 Daniel Caiy 3tant@n. The scientifia manna? iﬂ'Whi$h she raised thaﬁ baby'wsu1d have ﬂame creﬂiﬁ he gif twentieth century mairani She said she had been ﬁhimking$ raading and absarving, ‘ad had as liitla faith in iha pgyular tﬁaarw ies sf tﬁﬁﬁé days as regarés babies as she baa an m&ﬁy othar subjgaﬁsy 03% ry sf ligﬁt illuminated the darkness about her, “It was a hawk by gndraw Qcmbafgn la” 3‘? famayg sha“Wriiaa, She Proved Ber Th0?i%S g ﬁaulﬂ that I had tims and spasa to tell in daiail haw she ﬁraimed her hursag her husbamdg her parenﬁgg evén the d0ct9r§ as $3 haw ha? baby was ta ha iﬁaatadg when mast of them.ha& been tha parents Qf num@?aus ahildramg Sui aha carried the day; and har‘h@a1thy3 bauﬁcing baby convinced tham.£ha$ her thcrigs mmat be right, as he never ariad, slept a gﬁad Shara of the tima, and; baing givw ” an planﬁy af fresh air amd‘water to drink, being wmrsed reguzarky by tha_o1cek3 17 -’ gégi,/é;44Lqnm%%¢2e~ua.Zé%vu¢¢A4ij:Z;;4»» M__ . ¢ M A.‘ a-.« V ‘N 1- wt; aw ’ -3‘ «-1 ‘ _‘}={»‘‘ '-._.'’7 .'.._g‘ "'3: *3 _, 1 _ h@4 wag never 111* E9 ﬁl§§t &1mn@ mg a raam by ﬁ1maa;$:‘ Egbuﬁf sa$u all ac? .% ;% , 8 ,, - _ ¢= mm ..,V;g . ~= *; 2 ~ : , ﬁn I * . ~ $ -+ [ w “’w §ead&n& ﬁi hhls blﬂm G6ﬂmﬁT$d an pay$1a¢0g§; dgat and nyglaneﬁ anﬁ aha“ she cam t tha Qonalusian that babies ; s}% vied uwless somgthing wag ﬁha mattﬁr thaﬁ "7 *3 gauld be remediaﬁ§ Eémaa sha wa child cry withaut faaling haunﬁ ta flﬁﬂ J. R-4 » at “e‘-"* 2 c ‘i , .9» " 1* sub whaﬂ ma; baa cauaﬁg I %e? in life she lecﬁurad far aight mmnéhs af avary‘y@a?3 far twalva X‘ 25* Q'"‘§"‘ "'5"? 5 ’~ —‘ us": ‘ ‘“‘ *"“:§Vé.' .‘ ’ 1" ’ ﬁ ‘ 3‘ -9 . 4, " 1' ‘-3 ygayg§ frgm,m&1m$ as Ca1ifgrnma3 fr$m.k;aaasa%a ta Texas; On thasa axtgnazvg traps h 1Fﬁ A‘ ” av 'ﬁ”“ W%%‘ rv‘n “whims aﬁd i@na?a@t n9%@ﬂ%q Qwd %“?%%v “ai Siaa ‘x.1.£a33E§Z‘1.i:‘J§.1.“J‘e3S E5; 41.. us’-.1 Q {I 1 :3 /L .*...z‘ 5 .-..:. V ‘3 . "' ~ *‘ * «N» J‘ - «-’$« 5 ‘—»~“¥>»3~ «a- G‘? and» *5 in $9 savan sauﬂd shildraﬂ sf her awn she felt she aauld sp@ak‘vi%h authmriiya An Imgragsiva ﬂbjacﬁ Lassen . .... Jae ._ Gm ana aocasian, a'wh01a car full of peo§1s'was pn tenﬁerhmeks fram thg graisngad 3?yiﬂg_Q§ a b&%y, As maths? enﬁarad éha car anﬁ task he? seaﬁg sha hearﬁ its pit@0us'Wai1s, SQ she want fcrward and askea the‘waary5 ysumg mgthar if sha might taka ii; The b&%y raadi1y"wanﬁ ta % marg and wa1king‘With ii ta ihe anﬁ sf tha car she tagk har ymakat drinkiag qlass from.iﬁ3 saga; ringimg 1%, gig ﬁraiaﬁi ii af avery ﬁyay. Sas”ag him 35 ihirsiyg mgthar gag the liﬁiia fgi aw ‘Y s samﬁ mﬁrﬂﬁ iheng smiling mg7%§ he? face, Ea laiﬁ hia ¢@ad 0n.her b?§a$%«an&‘wamt poi’ "‘f” . Q‘ ~ . .7,-4 -“=;"‘:' > 1"‘ "‘,“‘,‘~. g ’s,. pt. -3- ~u-« -v ' .. . faaw as;ae§ lmﬁuﬂﬁuﬁy; ﬂfu§T aghzls gha saturnmd is whara the babylg maramis waragm is th@ chiig gﬁill sleyt an paaaafuilya I!” 3“ 3? , . - .,.,.- '? _, ., ‘H! . ‘~‘~. ,. ‘ ,— A Yam S%a3.mada&ﬁ‘; said %ﬂh%ﬂ?§ all ia@ Erb§‘ﬁ§3d§ﬂ‘W%3 a drink @§‘waie:&“ Y?‘-:'~:1:“ 15 age ~ 1 ‘ “Y _' F .,,‘x, 6. V, g , . , V . at 5. g 3 awﬁggw axclazmad tha woman} why, ha 3 nava? had a drink mf Waiar mm hlﬁ lifai“ it A _ '_ _ W. r V N H .. .w._ h N w_ V, , , Euﬂgi you glVﬁ3ﬁMn¢§h§§l@ﬁ and Eibtmﬁg waﬁar?“ Mmﬁhar znqmgraﬂs fir”. 1 ’ «,3 . ‘E « ;-,~-. #9 r,«;‘ -r 9». Uﬁﬁ gas; cgitaxﬁg, was 0&3 «nswar. “Haw aid ia geurboy?" mcthar askad. 18 "One year last Tuesday". Wﬁhat have yam been giving him to drink when he was thirsty?" ﬂnﬁ t0 he? hG?FGF she received this &ﬂSWG?a "Tea? coffee er milk, and when he crias very har&, we put a few drops cf whiskeygor soothing syrup; in the mil&;§ So methar sat down opposite thése ignorant young paremts and gave them a simple talk em hygiene, disk, dress, digestion, physiolegy, ha impertance above all things of giving children glenty of water ta ﬁring. ézﬂkzihig tims ﬁhg baby lay on.m@ther’s lap sweetly sleeping; she had thrgwn a light shawl over the chilé. Tha §e0ple in the car gathereﬁ araund, samﬁ standing am the seats ta listen. Hang of the man asked questicns, ta carry heme the informaticn to their wives, as they said, they also, haé babies that criaﬁ incessanély. The years after the birih of hér 1fir3t son.Were very full aﬁﬁ busy ones. In lﬁéﬁ my parenﬁs mpved to Boston, Mass., where my father began.thapractiee cf lawg as a parimer of Ruus Chcate. There mother mat Lydia.ﬁaria{Chi1é, Elizabeth Peab¢dy3 Thaodare Parker, Ralph Ealdo Emerson, Charles Sumner; Jehn G."Whittier, Bronsen &lcoit§ ﬁathaniel Hawihorne, and many ether litarary pegple and reformerag She ané father were frequent viaitmfs at the h0mﬂs0f §ande1l Phillips and ﬁilliaz Lleyﬁ Garrisana ﬂhila in BOStGmﬁ mother attended all the lecﬁures, churehas, cencertsg theatrés, temperanceﬁ paace, prisan~ref¢rm.and antinslavery oonvantions that mgt in the city; She says:"I never lived in such an enthusiastiaally litarary and ram fmﬁm latiiuﬂa befare. my mantal powers wera kept at the highast tansimn." Th0se'wMre stirring times in which my paranis lived, BostQm‘Wag the stgym cenire of many of the big movements of that day» The great antiagggvgr mgatingg 19 in Fanuail Hall rmakad Basion to its very founﬁatisn. They were cften dis» turbed by huge mgbs that woulﬂ held the most gifted orator at bay hmur after hear. These an the §latform‘were pelted with rattan eggs: cabbagasg and even brickbatsi During this parioé of her life in Bosﬁon my mother alga visited Brook Farm, gpandigg Emu d&ys thera, and saw that cammunity ﬁxyarimant at its heigﬁll " -_ ‘:9 ~,,.», «7 - A ’ 3 _.‘ .v.s“_z,"-9, , .« Yark Sun§‘Waited an ﬁablg. Thus through her earlv vears’was the bent of this breaﬁminded thmuvhtn 2.3 u 21 3 «.3 ful yaung wnman made firm; the foﬁndation stones were Wall laid amang “*l native hills, and nsw she began ﬁg build tha supafsﬁruature thereon. ﬁrs. Stanton as a Housekeeper- *?‘f"" my grandfather had given maihar a fine, naw heuse, baautifully farm nimhed, on the hills of Shelsea, overlooking Beaten Harbaur. She says; "ﬁhen firsi installed as mistress avg? an gstablishmant, one has the ﬁama faaling of pride and satisfaction thai a young ministar must have in ﬂaking charge ‘-3 5 *.-”:§1I’§3. {:9 w £3 cf ﬁis first eaugregationg s.... It is a praud mmmant in a woman’$ life i suprams wﬁthin four walls. ..... I gtuﬁiad my everything yextaining ta hou$a~ kaapingl ..... I had all ihe mast ap§roved cook~book5, aud spent much sf my , lg . '= M V . ‘l " ' ‘:7 ,M«(. timg picklingfand exyeriménting on.n9w‘&ishes. I felt the same ambiiion ta _% axeell in all ﬁepartments sf ﬁhe culinary art that I did at schcal la iﬁa ﬁifferent .ranehes cf laa?ming. seats I put my whole Saul imts everything and enjoyad it.“ my mnther was a famous housakeeper and cook; though she always kept several household employaes, thera'was nothing she herself could not dc. Her house was always in ﬁerfecﬁ orﬂer frem garret to cellar, her back dear as —.u.vz‘-‘v=—’(¢’ 20 ha? front door. Eu 1845 Judge ani ﬁrs. Gady mmvad to ﬂlbany fer a faw years ta as~ tablish twn of their senswinwlaw in the legal yrsfassian ihare, S0 ﬁhﬁ J Qapiﬁal 9f the Stata gﬁﬁﬁmg the family rallying paint far same time. G@verncr‘¥illiam H, Seward « ﬁrs. ﬁﬁaniam made several visits ta £1bany during thig period, and ﬁhus‘was able ta take anzzative part imthe discuaaien cf t&a Earriad ﬁomangs Pramerty Bi11§ the V;-3 - mending in the Legislatures Ths bill haé bean introﬁugad in 183* it did mat pasﬁg hewaver; Wniil 1848. ﬁi1liam‘H. Sew&rd'was Govarnor - 3 9- _ ’ ’ ’ “ “’ ﬁgriﬂg §art gf this tima; he appravad of the bill; anﬁ hi; Wlfﬁﬁ a wvman of b o A 0 w‘ . if n» V E3 N‘; “ = , rt ‘*1 3 2“- rare lmtalllganae, advacatad 1t warmly. logawhar , ﬁrs. Stanton ﬂT;t$§§ “ﬁrs. Seward and I had the epgartunity of talking abeuﬁ tha bill with many membars3 bath cf the Senate and ﬁssembly, in S0ci@iy§ as wail as in smmittas raams.” Gmvarner amﬁ Mrs. Sewar&‘s friendship far my mather laatad t0 the and 9; uhair £335, and thay'were freguant visitars at aaah 0£har’a hamasg §il1ia3:£. Sewarﬂ was afﬁerward Secretary Sf Staﬁﬁ in ?ra$i&ent Lina01n‘s Gahinaﬁa %Mr3. Stan%on‘$ saemné son Henry was barn im Albany in 1843, during one cf hay visits taera, ﬁunéar mare favarabla auspices than w§'first ﬁarnﬁ she; writes, “as them I ts dc 1:zr:i.i:.E’; sza. bsa.z:y.*‘ imzi. }—mx¥ 33.§.z*d son, C;~erz*i*%; gm-2,33 3ﬁﬂHt0n,“W&S born im 1845 at Che1aea¢ H533. under the ahadaw cf Bunkér Eill mmnumanta Sha:musﬁ have been a very bay wammn wiih thmeé bays iﬁ Pan? years; she nursad all her b&hies3 and; though she always had nurses; ska did man .31‘ ._‘i things hewsalf for her children, She was a meat devotaé mmthar; she sang and plryad for us on bath yiano anﬁ guitar; anﬁ tald uswandarful stories. She 21 cculd racita poeﬁry by the page; often thesa recitations were fram tha Odes of Hsrace, 0? the Eclsguas of Virgil, she nevar forgeﬁ her Latin er Greek. I hava often seen her, at the twilight hour ih her ald age; surraunded by a bevy of children listeninv s§el1b0und't0 her thrilling tales. -; ”‘5?%l£* * il57” 51 ? Lif@ at Seneaa Fallso lflha sevaritv of the Naw‘England climaie provad toe rigcraus for my father’s ~ he&lth; sa this stimulating; intellectual and sccial lifal and his brilliant legal start, all had to he given up; and in the Spring of 1847 my parents mgved to Seneca Falls, ﬁew*?ark. Father’s haalth improved greatly; hey spant sixteen years of their married life in that littla village; and the?e their ' :¢..s;;\,l~—m . qﬁéﬁf four ohilﬂren'war9 born. t A 7 %§%w¢i¢ Grandfaﬁher had given mmther a large, ol§~£ashionadR§ame in Seneca Falls, also a farm near the town. On her way to the new home she stapped in“ Johns» town to visit her parents, and left her nurse and three boys there While she . want on.to Seneca Falls alone to put tha house in hahitablg condition. Father had been called to New'Y0rk ﬂity on important business. Ebther’s eldast sister, ﬁrs. Edward Bayard; had lived in ﬁhat villagé sevaral years before, and as ELih@F had oftéa Viaiteﬂ her, she was already acquainted‘With many of the tawnspeapleg I At parking Grandfather gave his daughﬁer & gooﬁly sized check and said with a kiss anﬂ a smile, “You believe in woman‘s capacity £0 dc and dare; 35W Q? ahead and_show us what you can do'With that hause.“ She started off quite hagpy at thafhcﬁght of the rasbansibility cf repairing a hause and puﬁtimg all things in arder. Tha ylaca had bean clmsad for several yearsﬁ and needed extensive repairs; anﬁ the grounds, compriaing several acres, were overgrawn with weeds, and the trees, hedges and shruba sadly neglected. %y'mpther writes in her autobiography: “tit %mi@ute survay of the _ ‘ ‘Y ‘,.3§ﬂij_,*,, - 3 praises anﬁ due consultatian with sevewal sons 0 '4 v‘: :'~*':'t~~ ’ ’ painters, paperwhangers, and garﬂeners to work; built a fine haw kitahana wpod~hause and several perches and in six'waaks took passassianiﬁ my mather possessed a great ﬁeal cf axacutive atility and astanishad every ate at wtat she aécomglished in S0 shart 3 time; She told me maay amusing taies of sitting on kegs cf nails and disw cussiag the tapics ef the day with samé of the leading Judgas and lawyers of the tswng who draypad in to adviae her, while the workman were pounding and hammering about themJ In Seneca ?a11s my mother found life decidedly sclitarg and even depressing. In Beaten all her immediate friends were thinkers and refarmars, amang tham.the chief figures of that ﬁay. There she had a new hcuse‘ith all tthe mmdern conveniences, well-trained sarvants, near and delightful neighbors. Eéra the home was remote, built at the edge of a cauntry village: The h0usa~ hold employees were inferior. ’She had an increasing number of children, anﬁ 1 fathar was frequantky abliged to be away frat hama on outiness. §hi1e‘we lived in Seneca Fallg he was a member cf the ﬂew York Legislature. Ebthar sums it all uy grayhically in the fol10wing‘wor&s; *Ta kaap a larga hause .and many acres of grauné in orderg purchase evaryzartinla fer daily use? Keep the wardrobea cf half a dozen human beings in proper trimﬁ take children ta dentiﬁts, shoemakers; day and dancing schools, and tc find teachers for home study,- altogether made sufficient work to keep one brain busy, as Well as all the hands I couié press into service. .fhen, tca; the novelty 0f housekeeping had gasseﬂ away, and much that was ance attractive in dgmggﬁig life was now i?ksom.. I had so many cares that the oompant I neaaeé for in~ tellectual stimu1us‘as a trial rather than a pleasure.“ Before this, my mother's life had glided by¥with ccmparative ease, Aﬁith her hameepathie book and bag sf buﬁ new ﬁhe real struggle of existence was ugen her; Her &utias'wer9 two numerousg an&§ “None”, she sayss “sufficiently exhilaraﬁing £0 bring inte play my higher faculties; hamaa 1 auffereé from.m@nﬁm1 hunger. I naw fully underw steed the practiaal difficultias East wcmsn have to eanﬁand‘with in the isolated hemsehsld, ﬂﬁw i%e impossibilitr cf wamangs besi davelopment if in centact, the chief part of her life, with servanﬁs and children“, i§~£4§§ﬁi-¥’O§§94E°I5§4Q$$§O§%$'9G$Oﬂ‘NB " at “’ 1' 3 : C ’ 9 S 9 1., E 0' ‘ ‘ 9 " ~ 3 \E>"§x;> ‘met’ * z \\ u 5 “‘- 5 “ .‘ 9 : 1 A I is . - ..-=-. ~ - -:=.~.‘- new E aad ﬂmf Qgm Olu3Sb ~ 9 3 ‘ 3 Q t 7-‘ ‘re 1* . ' . ‘agﬁv ' 3' 0 S (‘I V * 3 3 5 $ Q I 8 ’ 2 1 I 3 OOG0i§§0®OO!it>Cl=5352?!-ﬁtﬁﬂifi$- Mrse Stanton and twe 3? her bavs ffsm an old dayuerrect G _ ta 3' x,.ZT' Near Our h0me'w&s an Irish setiiament frcxzwﬁish came constant commlaints E‘ "§' 1 . 5*’ «rm $ .~m— A ,, -..v ‘ .y, 4, ‘a F‘ ‘ I ‘ 5 ‘ I‘ . th&u krsﬁ §EdﬁtGn 3 bays were thlawzmg stauag mi their “pigs anﬁ reefs”; 38 successful was my mmﬁher in bar diplemaﬁic adjustnanﬁ of affairs, thaﬁ S18 S90? 1 0',‘ ‘‘t_ ' ‘. 1 - ‘ , N, 2 3‘ mecgms the umpire of the nexghborhood. bhe lent boogs anﬁ payers ta tﬁ@’WG§ﬂ ﬁﬁﬁ mﬂﬁi invited the chiléram inta her beautiful grcunds ta pl“y‘wiﬁh her hg;g ‘ "' ‘L "75" ' ‘”"’ W ‘ 1?‘ tn A ’ 1» u »- n. . » and angog uhﬁ Eﬂlugm, p&Pmll@1 mﬁd hC?l£Qﬁi&1 bags: the trageza aﬁd laﬁﬁergﬁ ymdicines, she tenﬁed thg sick and mgnistgrad is tha wmmen im the nangs of mate?nitv§ ti‘? she Qagﬁﬁw Qn%f§ an exmﬁri if thﬂi J. ~ E . as -. _ .e=‘m.:... -4» J‘- ,,,,., 1- ,~ ~ 1" 4 ‘L d“ C l XX’) #55- branch 9? the mgdical prafessien. She imugzé them.haw to take intelligent cara cf their babias and children. She was lookad ugan by all her naighbars as their beat friend anﬁ adviseﬁ, anﬁ thera'was noﬁhing they wou1& moi ﬁe for ha? in return. Emerson says a hsalthy discontent is the first step in progress; my mgther says, “The general discontent, which I now‘felt,with woman‘s partian aa wife; mother} hou$ekeeper3 sgiritual guide, the weariﬁﬁ, anxious look of tha majayity of wemen, all impressed mg with the feeling that some aotiva maaaureﬁ must %a ‘ﬁaken to ramedy the‘Wrongs of society in general and GE woman in particular, ﬁy experiamme at the'ﬁor1d’s £ﬁti~S1avery Gcnvantian in Lemdanj all I had ra&d of ihe lagal status of women in my faiher‘s law books, ané ﬁhe cpprassian af wnmgn I saw everywhere swept across yg*smul, intensifieﬂ nww by Hg'mﬁny personal exw‘ periencés. it seemgd as if all the eleménts had conspireﬂ to impel me te same ﬂﬂwayﬁ Sggg, 1 ggulﬁ net sge‘wh&t to de or where to begin, ~ my only thought was 3 public meating for protest and discussion.” In this perturbed sﬁate of mind, mother received an inviﬁatimn to yo my ta '%aterlo0, the naxt tawn, and spanﬁ he day at the home cf her friends, the Eunﬁs, ﬁe see Lucﬁetia ﬁatt, wha was there on a visii. Ehey haé invited a party of their z— Quaker acquaintances, all earnest, married women, ta meat 4! - ﬁrs. Matt and ﬁrs‘ Stamioa. §y?hé%her was so full of the spirit wf discmntent, and sﬁa poured it autwith such vahamenca anﬂ eloquanca, that she stirrea herself and all her hearers, as she says, “Te de and dare anythingi" like First ﬁcman’s Rights ﬁenventien 0 They deciéed to holé a ”%bman's Eights Convention”. They wrote the call ﬂ A that afterncon and had it printed in ihe Seneca Gsunév Courier an July 14, l8é8. if . , H‘ 5.. 9 Q rs ,, _* I - ‘,3 Q a w I K The c&11 was 1bgued‘w1th0ut slgnaﬁures, mt was merely an announcement that a r . f 9 ‘ . 5 ‘Hr » _ I ‘. , Jonah s Rzghts Conventlon would be held on July 19, and £0, lﬂ Seneca Falls. The chief mnvers were Elizabeth Cadv Stant on of Seneca Falls, Lucretia Matt of Philadelphia, %ary'enn ﬁcC1intock and Jane Hunt of Waterloo, and Martha C. T E dright of iuburn. The last mentioned ledy*eee the sister of ﬁrs. ﬂott, and the grandmother of Themes ﬁott Osborne, the famous exdwerden of Sing Sing Prison, who thus comes naturally by his reform proclivities. , .. The Convention was held in the~” Church in Seneca Falls. It ees a great success, the place ees crowded at every meeting, both men end women spoke. James Eott, Lucretia's handsome husband, presided. Someone sage of it: “A religious earnestness dignified all the proceedings”. M 4'c«¢,é"4..:;z/a 3 * ~ -in 'L.«.~.- ~ »~~vr~ —+‘:a’"’ " . “ ‘ - ‘ Of that first ConventionZme»eeeeee dig in her eutcbiogzephy, Eighty Years and More“, "These eere the hasty, initiative steps of the moet;momentoue refornz that hee yet been leunchede in this world, the first organized protest against the injustice which has brooded for ages over the oherecter and destiny of one- helf the race.” But mother fails to tell, in her book, one incident that I think most significant, and which I have often heard her relete; "It shows how far ahead she eee of her times and how clearly she see into the future. She asked Frederick Douglass, the great colored orator, who had oome down from.Rooheeter to ettend the Ccnventicn,°what it ees that his people, the slaves on the southern p1ente~ tions§ needeaﬁtp out them.on the right plane. "The ballot”, he promptly replied. “And I see that is exactly ehat we Women need“, said Mrs. Stanton. Then she explained d" T to him.thet she had drawn up a resolution, tetdshe intended to present to the »%“"'5"5;3 ‘ Convention, and he must immediately jump to his feet and make e speech in favor of its passage, and then she would do likewise. The resolution reed: “Resolved, That it is the duty of the eomen of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right of the elective franchise.” “éﬂ-Q i,/¢¢¢,{;§::’,¢¢ ii; ey mother told Er. Douglees that in the conﬁerences they had been holding before the Convention, ehen she had maintained that the ballot in the hands of eomen'ees the keynote to the situation, Lucretia ﬁott had exclaimed: ”Oh3,Lizzie, 26 if thee demands that, thee will make us ridiculousi ﬁe must go slcwly.“ And my father, aha usually stood by my mother in all she did and saiﬁ3 and aha disc spoke and‘ﬁorked for the cause of wnman,'was so amazed at her .9‘ daring,'when she confiéad ta him what she intended doing,and sp distressed that she would not listen to his advice, that he left tqwn and dié not attend any of ths'meetings3 But mother felt she was right, and nething anyoae saié coulﬁ turn.her from.her path. Thenﬁ tee, she remsghered the advice given her by Daniel O3C0nnel1 years bafore in Ireland: “Always ask for the uttermpst; than you may get semethingi” Of course those on the platformywere furious at her for springing her reseluticn on the ﬁonventiont it created hot debate, but the brilliant éefeﬂse, of Bouglass and her own elcquence and logic so roused the audience that many arese and spoke for her side; and after a two hours’ tussle it was carried. v ﬂ’ ' 4 ﬂ 4') /~',’ /' u r éﬂemand fram the first was those three . 40 So that Elizabath Cady Stant0n's 1/’? 05/ little worés ~ "VotesJfor Womami“ Susan B. ﬁnthony was not present at that first ﬁonventiens she did met some inte the mavemant until three years later, in lﬂﬁlu
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1896-08-01

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1872-04-01
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Show more-,--',n'au; »« ‘~Tv-\. \_ av"-wu- pf / ~ 7 \ ,. N 4 S 2 A p ‘ , " 2 r . v _ » ...3; ' Q vﬁ” .9»-~ -«=>'~””"' , . , ﬁx, Tﬁgﬁ V t A s‘ '*‘~v* 2 t '62:: ., 2’ l;'er: Geetle Ajoril let (I 872.) Deer Lucretia, Reach d here last evening, cold better! I have C0 thought much inoe leaving of our eer Wooﬁhull, eﬁ the goeeie about her, oeme to the conclusion thet it'e greet impertinenoe in any of we to pry into rer affairs. Bow ehoulo we feel to have everybody overhauling our anteoeéente, turning up the weitee of their eyes over each new eieeovery on invention. There is to me a eaoreﬁnees in individual exeerienoe that eeeme like profanetion to Search into or ex- pose, Victoria Woodhull etenﬁs before us today one of the ebleet epeekere& writers of the oentury sound & raéioel, alike in political, religious, e racial principles. Ker face, form manners, oonvereetien, all inﬂioete the triumph of the moral, intelleeteel, spiritual over the eeneuoue in her nature. The processes & localities of eer education are little to us. But the gremé reeult is everythi;g. Are our brilliant flowers leee fregrent, our 1&%ious fruits leee palatable because the degree of filthy streets and barn» yards have mourieheé enﬁ developeﬂ them? %Doee not the men or women thet oer pass through.every phase of eooiel degregation,*”% poverty, vice, orime, temptetion in all ite forms, & yet tower above all their kind, give unmistekeble proof of their high origin, the motel grendeur of their true nature. The lilium caneieue that magnificent lily, thet queen of flowers, so lofty, ehite, and pure, thet looks es if it neiee bed battled with the elements, floerisees in ell soils, & many latitudes, it braves ell Wind & weather, heat & cold & oft times with its feet in frozen clods, etill lifts its yure, white fsce upweee to the stars. most women, eho like th tenﬁer Fusehie, perish in the first rude blast, think there test be something wrong, some sublte poisen in the hardy glents that grow stronger, braver, more beautiful in the poor soil, end reugh exposure ehere they fell faded, ehithered, bleeding to tee earth. es have had women eneegh secrificed to this sentimental hyper oriticel, preting about purity. This is one of men’s most effective engines, for our division, and subjegetion. He creates the puelic sentiment builds the gallows, end thenteekee us hengman for our sex, ﬁomen have crueifieﬁ the Mary» ﬁelstenm crafts, the Fanny weights the ﬁeorge Sends the Fanny Kembles the Lucretia Eotts of all ages; end new men mock us with the feet and sey, we are ever cruel to each ether. Let me end this ignotle record, end henceforth etend ty eomeneoed. If Victoria ﬁoodhull must be cruciiied, let men drive the spikes and plate the crown of thorns. Ci 4 I do not believe your 3. E. J. . will belt! I shell eee the glorious victim as soon as I return te e.Y. I em visiting E...Jc some friends who have e megnif cent place in ﬁeleeete Bey. Everything here is gorgeous ene ltnurieus. The wife quite radical, the husband s member of the Legislature, who believes in the “whix; ” post, (if I have tam manv mg in thjg word 3,] l‘L:V B "" *5; , K‘ “(V ‘ iv? _“ .,: .,‘ .63 1 Q‘ .1 )'.u¢ Q .. 7/04: is-~33 ‘ -no. ‘?.."v.: excuse me, 1 Suffmﬁ ﬁrom ga;ngu¢ umcerLa1nty OPtuDm?ayg: . 8"“ _..a W. ,.... ms... 3 * ..,_,,,‘ * . .9 A, Etemmology syntax & I of tha language, o;L1m@s 1&ag1m;n% myself wrong when E am not and sometimas in reverse. ﬁagqie and I hava a &e1ight§ul r@mamb?amce of our visit ta you. ﬁaggie thinks your twe sons in law are @s§acial1y charming & ‘9 says if ﬁe? brchhars were lime them 3%@ shauld net ccnaiﬁer 908 th@ nuisances she now ﬁoes. I sugaestgﬂ ﬁhat ting might -4» immravg our boys, as it umdombﬁéﬁly haﬁ ﬁhine. %Eith may Waﬁm3at lava for you and yam? heusaholﬂ I want to gay goad night. Had . . '1 ‘_ _ M m W _‘ u’ . ,,. ..‘. .> 1, ~, _ 5, A: a §leasant viglﬁ at gorristown. I hcpa yam? gaung may may maﬁa '5 ﬁna acquaintancé of my nieca ~ She £3 a v@A§ ﬁﬁod littlﬁ woman. Lovingly gem? friend Elizabeth Gaﬁv Stantan
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1890
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Date: 19-Jul
Text: Life Sketch of czgawt can Slcudan by her Granddaughter NORA STANTON BARNEY Civil Engineer and Architect rd‘! Published on the 100th Anniversary of the day that 4 ex.-Quart eat, gfaafoa submitted the first resolution in the world demanding the Elective Franchise for Women Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 19, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, on No- vember l2th, 1815. Her family was wealthy, judged by contempo- rary standards, and she could have lead a life of ease and...
Show moreLife Sketch of czgawt can Slcudan by her Granddaughter NORA STANTON BARNEY Civil Engineer and Architect rd‘! Published on the 100th Anniversary of the day that 4 ex.-Quart eat, gfaafoa submitted the first resolution in the world demanding the Elective Franchise for Women Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 19, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, on No- vember l2th, 1815. Her family was wealthy, judged by contempo- rary standards, and she could have lead a life of ease and luxury, but the seed of divine discontent was A within her. The sad lot of most women penetrated her soul at an early age, and she chose, instead, a life of continual work, hardship and battle. She had to contend with op- position within the family, also. Her determination to speak in public, and her stand for the enfranchisement of her sex caused her father to disin- herit her. Yet she was never hitter , and her dignity, humour, unbounded health and energy carried her through the ocean of ridicule, frus- trations, prejudice and intolerance to the ripe age of 86 years. She was ageless, , and could en- _ thrall my English and French cous- ins and me with stories of her youth as easily as she could move a vast audience with her oratory and logic. Her lectures and writings covered the whole ﬁeld of human progress———— “Motherhood”, “Sex”, “Our Boys”, “Our Girls”, °‘Woman Suffrage”, “Dress Reform ”, “Woman, the Church and the Bible”. She was a diligent Greek scholar and a great student of the Bible. She inveighed against the degraded position accord- ed to women by the orthodox churches of her generation. She was a Unitarian, and a firm believer in the brotherhood of man and the right to political and economic equal- ity of all human beings regardless of color or sex or race. Seneca Falls was her home for 16 years from 1847. The little town seethed with activity from the day she set her foot there, and on July 19 and 20,1848, the long-discussed plans of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to hold a Woman’s Rights Convention were realized. One hundred well-known men and women attended and signed the “Declaration of Sentiments”, but it was Mrs. Stanton who moved the reso- lution that women should be granted the elective franchise, a motion sec- onded by Frederick Douglass. A storm of protest arose, but the motion was carried by a small margin. Over the cries of ridicule and denunciation heaped on the Convention and its sponsors by pulpit and press arose the clarion voice of Wendell Phillips. ————“This is the inauguration of the most momentous reform yet launched upon the world, the first organized protest against the injus- tice that has brooded for ages over the character and destiny of half the human race”————, and Frederick Doug- lass in “Lone Star” and Horace Gree- ley in New York Tribune published the only editorials in praise of the Convention and its objectives. Often reformers of one generation _ become the conservatives of the next. , Thiswas not true of Mrs. Stanton. She wrote a letter which was read at the celebration of the 50th anniver- sary of the 1848 Convention, which ended as follows: “. . . My message today to our coadju- tors is that we have a higher duty than the demand for suffrage. We must now, at the end of fifty years of faithful ser- vice, broaden our platform and consider the next step in progress, to which the signs of the times clearly point,———name- ly, co-operation, a new principle in in- dustrial economics. We see that the right of suffrage avails nothing for the masses in competition with the wealthy classes, and worse still, with each other. “Women all over the country are working earnestly in many fragmentary reforms, each believing that her own, if achieved, would usher in a new day of peace and plenty. With woman suf- frage, temperance, social parity, rigid Sunday laws and physical culture, could any, or all, be successful, we should see changes in the condition of the masses. We need all these reforms and many more to make existence endurable. What is life today to the prisoner in his cell, to the feeble hands that keep time with machinery in all our marts of trade, to those that have no abiding place, no title to one foot of land on this green earth? Such are the fruits of competi- tion. Our next experiment is to be made on the broad principle of co-operation. At the end of fifty years, whose achieve- ments we celebrate here today, let us reason together as to the wisdom of lay- ing some new plank in our platform. “The co-operative idea will remodel codes and constitutions, creeds and cat- echisms, social customs and convention- alism, the curriculum of schools and colleges. It will give a new sense of jus- tice, liberty and equality in all the re- lations of life. Those who have eyes to see recognize the fact that the period for all the fragmentary reforms is ended. “Agitation of the broader questions of philosophical Socialism is now in order. This next step in progress has been fore- shadowed by our own seers and prophets, and is now being agitated by all the thinkers and writers of all civilized coun- tries. “The few have no right to the luxuries of life, while the many are denied its necessities. This motto is the natural out- growth of the one so familiar on our platform and our official paper, ‘Equal Rights for All’. It is impossible to have ‘equal rights for all’ under our present competitive system. ‘All men are born free, with an equal right to life, liberty and happiness’. The natural outgrowth of this sentiment is the vital principles of the Christian religion. ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’. In broad, liberal principles, the suffrage association should be the leader of thought for wom- en, and not narrow its platform, from ‘year to year, to one idea, rejecting all relative ideas as side issues. “Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions!” If she were living today, she would no doubt be a champion of civil rights and just as many unpopular causes as in 1848. She would be de- manding the full emancipation of woman and equality of rights under law, inveighing against intolerance and bigotry, imperialism and monop- oly, and championing the rights of the common man throughout the world. Until 1900, she held, the pre-emi- nent position in the feminist move- ment, not only in her own country but throughout Europe too. During the last years of her life, she was uni- versally known as “The Grand Old Woman of America”. Some of the high lights of her long life were: In 1848, was the principal organ- izer of the ﬁrst Woman’s Rights Con- vention, and moved the woman suf- frage resolution. In 1854, the ﬁrst woman to ad- dress the New York legislature from the speaker’s rostrum. She was president of New York State -Woman Suffrage Society in 1854. She helped form the ﬁrst National organization for woman’s rights—— The National Woman’s Suﬁrage As- sociation, and was its president from its inception almost continuously for 20 years (1869-1890). When later the American Woman Suffrage Association merged with the National Woman’s Suffrage Associa- tion to become the National Ameri- can Woman Suffrage Association, she was elected president. She made the principal address at the great Cooper Union mass meet- ing in 1861, calling on Lincoln to free women as well as the Negro, and enfranchise both. She ran for Congress in New York State in 1866. In 1869, when the family ﬁnances were at a low ebb and the education of the ﬁve younger children in jeop- ardy, she registered with the Lyceum hureau, and toured the country from Maine to Texas on the famous Or- pheum Circuit, earning from $100.00 to $200.00 per lecture. She did not stop this arduous work until Bob, her youngest, was graduated from Cornell University in 1881. She and Packer Pillsbury edited the periodical, “The Revolution,” from 1868 to 1871. She made the principal address when the W7oman Suffrage Amend- ment was ﬁrst introduced in Congress in 1878. She wrote her coworker, Su- san B. Anthony, who was lecturing in the West, an account of it. This amendment was identical with that ﬁnally passed in 1919 as the 19th Amendment (sometimes erroneously named the Susan B. Anthony Amend- ment). s The three ﬁrst volumes of the “His- tory of Woman Suffrage” early edi- tions, bear the legend, “Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda, .1 oslyn, Gage.” She initiated the International A Woman Suffrage Committee in 1882, in England. On her 80th birthday in 1895, there was a huge celebration at the Metropolitan Opera House of New York City, with memorials and pres- ents from every state, anddmany from abroad. In the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, there stands a large goblet presented to her by the Wom- an Suffrage League on which is en- graved, “Defeated Day by Day, but unto Victory Born”. The reforms she advocated and for which she was ridiculed have largely come to pass: Higher education for women; won1an’s political enfranchisement; dress reform; short skirts; the aban- donment of corsets; the abandonment of swaddling clothes and tight ban- dages for babies; the abandonment of seclusion for women during preg- nancy; getting up soon after child- birth, and continuing one’s duties; liberal divorce laws; a single stand- ard of morals; equal guardianship; property rights, etc. But some of her demands of 1848 still remain unaccomplished, as for instance, complete emancipation of women so that they may have equal- ity of rights under the law, and the full protection of the Constitution. And with all this public activity, she bore and reared seven children, ﬁve boys and two girls. There is a letter from an admirer of hers, my grandfather, writing from Washington, January 16, 1857, to my aunt Margaret Livingston Stanton, then ﬁve years old. He said: “Tell your mother that I have seen a throng of handsome ladies, but that I had rather see her than the whole of them :————hut I intend to cut her acquaintance unless she writes me a letter.” My memories of my Queenmother, as all of us grandchildren called her, are of a delightful person to live with and play with. Backgammon, chess and checkers were our almost night- ly amusement. I have memories of men and women, colored and white, of high and low estate, seeking her counsel and advice. The mornings she spent writing endless letters and articles. During those years, 1897 to 1902, she wrote her autobiography, “Eighty Years and More”, and also “The Woman’s Bible” (her delight- ful commentaries on the women characters of the Bible and her inter- pretations) . Indefatigable to the end, the day before she died, she wrote a letter to Theodore Roosevelt urging him to include sponsoring woman sulirage in his inaugural address. A great writer, author, feminist, philosopher, orator and reformer, friend of Phillips, Douglass, Carri- son, Greeley, Whittier, the Brights and McLarens and feminists through- out the world, passed on into history the 26th day of October, 1902. The author lived with her during the last years of her life, at 26 West 61 st Street and 250 West 94th Street, New York City. Additional copies can be obtained by writing Box 436, Greenwich, Conn. Price 25 cents, postage paid.
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1872-04-01
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Ere. h. a I read all theee letters hut decided that it was not heat to enggeet any doubt in reference to dear Woodhull in other ninde. I queation the wiedon of any inveetigation or connente on are. §oodhull‘e antecedente,& we did not ehow thie letter eeven to L.nJ there ie to me a eaoredneee in individual ewnerience that seen liwe nrofanation to search into or ewpoee. Woodhull etande before we today, one of the ahleet eneawere and writere of the century, sound a radical aliwe in nolitical a social nrincinlee. her face a form indicate the complete triumph of the eeiritnal over the eenenone. The nroceeeee of her education are little to ue, the grand reenlt everything. are our brilliant beautiful flowere leee fragrant, our rich luscious fruite lees nalataole hecanee the debris of filthy etreet d barnyarde have nouriened d enriched then. ﬁne natn e that can stand every nhaee of eooial degradation, poverty, vice, temptation in all its forme & yet tower up above all wonankind ae our Victoria doee today, gives unmistakable proof of ita divinity. Ehe Lilian dandidum, that magnificent lily so white d nure that looks ae if it had never battled with wind or etorn, the queen of flowere, flourienee in all eoile, hravee all winde a weather, heat a cold d with ite feet in frozen clode, it lifts ite pure whiten face towarde the etare. aoet wonen liae the fnehia faint in the firet rude hlaet — faded d withered nroetrate in the duet they think there muet he eonething wrong, eone euhtle noieon in the hardy nlante that grow etronger d braver in the hattlee where they fell. We have had women enough eacrificed to thie eentinental h nocritical oratinz about nuret‘£ this ie one of nan‘e moat Fr l S * _ Jz , I 1 , effective enginee for our euhgugation. he createe the puolic sentiment, hnilde the gallowe, a aawee we the hangman for our own eew. Women have crncitied the aary Eolletonorarte, ranny ﬁriante, George Sande, Fanny Kenhlee of all agee a now men mock we with the fact a say we are creel to each other. Let ne end this ignoole record d if ViCtOPiaWoOdﬂUil ie to he crucified, let nen do the deed, while aa her aeienaere we hedae her round aoont, ever true to womanhood. that contemptihle nunny referred to in ﬁre. hooker‘e letter, would not nelieve under oath. he undoubtedly helonge to T that large claee of men who imagine themselves eo irreeietahle z”doilection . -2- Enat a;L women aye melted in their preaaace. Gf ai¢ the atories writtan & told me, I have made one invaria@le ?@§ly ﬁe men & woman. Grant all yen gay is true; whaﬁ nag crushed magt wamen n&$ bash the mgamg of & gramﬁ éaveiapment ts her. If Gaﬁkerine Eeecher had aver leved with sufficiemt d€VOtiOﬂ, passion, & abandon any of &@am‘3 sang to have rcrgotzen neraeir, me? God, new iamiiv, her propriety, & enéured for a Mrief sp&ce the world‘s coléneag, ridicule, or gcarm, Ehe deptng & ricnneﬁs 0f may napure mlgnp nave mean p;0ugned up & 3&3 saveé from exhihiting to the wmrld the narrow, bigoﬁed, arrogant woman aha 1% taéay. These @001, calm prager Ehariseea than never Eiunagr, who thank the Lorﬁ in their clagetg that they are not like other men er wom@n, are invariably the moat selfiah & uﬂf§@llﬁ§ of &Li &od‘$ craazures. " *~ -5 M *'* m 1".” 1* - -. 4»-* m * .‘ I naa a fine aualenee lﬂ :n1;adeLgh1a & mUGf8ul& b&l@ Z maﬁa a aooﬂ gpeech. I am new Sgemaxng a zew @&ga in a Qaiace meme 0: egg or my Sougnern friends on ﬁne maaga Sf Eexaware ﬂay. E gs E0 E.E. on Eandag. ﬂaw Rahal at ﬂwarthmore. I have ROE time taday ta write to hrs. ﬁocxer so send mar ﬁnig. Eourg sincereiy, -“jfw -'1 ("*1 g («I 3 (Elizabeth Cad; ﬁﬁanhon) .,T. L Y I mo‘
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1885-12-01
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1889
Text: Q r’ f ‘ :_«.;sm«,,«;g,»,»a.~i¢ %% Deer Mrs ﬁolloway I cannot meet you at Brigaten Beach. I am sorry to lose the many pleasures you offer but I have hurt my knee e walking is difficult; I hope Miss Anthoﬁy will make a pleasant speech & that your last meeting will go off successfully with Kinﬁ regards Sincerely yours Elizabeth Caéy Stanton Tuesday morn

Creator: Lawrence, Margaret Stanton
Date: n.d.
Text: 12 iega, Neeport,"¥eshington, Europe, or even to come here. My tee youngest ehilﬁreng "with tee feithful nurses, are at the Deleven House, and when I have ecsomplished m mission we shall all go home together“. CQO*I3CQC90OI80CO%0$‘O$§C Picture of Mother and $at‘)L1E-Ienry 1854 ncooaoacaoulocacntuot 90 no to on on an 0%‘ nu» to so do on no 03 I34! are $0 mi My mother never knew what mischief she would find had been done by her four lively boys during her absence on errands in the...
Show more12 iega, Neeport,"¥eshington, Europe, or even to come here. My tee youngest ehilﬁreng "with tee feithful nurses, are at the Deleven House, and when I have ecsomplished m mission we shall all go home together“. CQO*I3CQC90OI80CO%0$‘O$§C Picture of Mother and $at‘)L1E-Ienry 1854 ncooaoacaoulocacntuot 90 no to on on an 0%‘ nu» to so do on no 03 I34! are $0 mi My mother never knew what mischief she would find had been done by her four lively boys during her absence on errands in the village. Her second see, Henry, then nine years old, was quite an inventor, and on one occasion, as she Wes walking home by the river road, she was greeted with a shout from.a boat full of beys in the water, "oh: mother, it works, it works perrectlyi" 3 "What works?" she called out. thwy life preserver", the boy answered. ,, And, to her horror, there was her fourth son, Theodcre, sheet a year, 44v/u~/Lo4u4¢¢é ‘twee: e1d,'eith the life preserver fastened under his arms, splashing about in the'Water, as blue as indigo. The child, accustomed to a cold bath every morning in a large tb, seemed to be enjoying it also. After the rescue of her baby, the youthful’ inventor was shown the error of his eeys in the privacy of his room.and forbidden to take the baby out of the yard. While the nurses were busy laundering the babies‘ clothes, mother paid the older boys to Wheel us younger chi1&ren about our spacious grounds in our eerrieges.% Shortly after the foregoing performance, mother was retaking from church‘With a friend, when suddenky she said, "Look up on that chimey, Mrs. Stenteni” And then(she beheld her baby seated on the chimney top with the inventor 13 standing beside himm hmether quietly-slipped up stairs, out on the roof and rescued her son Theodore. da‘ﬁriter Sﬁ/anion as Mr. In speaking of our mether, my sister, Harriet Stantoﬂ Bleteh, seyezd “From.185d on, one able argument followed another. Mrs. Stanton wielded a trench- ant pen, and she'eee the author of all the ‘§£E§2_Eepers‘ Lhat marked, and honeurw ably marked, the development of the suffrage movement in America. The ringing calls to suffrage conventions were the work of her hand; the appeals to Legislatures and to Congress, the legal arguments addressed to jurists, came from her pen. She was a bri11iant'writer and an able speaker". acooooocooooooococoootuo GICOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0000 no to an to at 00 can Ooooioooooonacoooocoooob B; gnzmgy, At one time mother was much troubled at the“weyh her boys swere, so she took council with sweet little Lucretia Mott, who was her guest, and withZMise Anthony. After same thought Mrs. Mott suggested that mother, Susan, and she all“ swear at table and see if that wouldn‘t shame the boys out of their bad habit. So When.the family gathered for the next meal, Lucretia, in her trim white Quaker cap and ‘kerehief, said: “Elizabeth, may I give thee some of this damn chicken?“ The C‘UGOOCIOﬁ¢.l>£IOGCCC..II “ OOIOGIIOOOOOIOGGOOQ 3 3 Ll : ¢_ 9, ‘:5 O I *3‘ 0 o 3 § 2; Q" ‘ 3 '3» 414,, ‘V . ’ ‘ Q .. I. Q ‘ r I .AHvl . u "ﬁr: _ v. . . J ~. OiuC0«§00ODOi!eOOODO3§Q ..t3m3...§ ‘warmest friends in Seneca.Fa1ls were an Episcopal c1ér§§madf:;:% 14 boys all looked amazed,'buﬁ, as none of the laidea cracked a smile, and as the oathﬁ from.the ldps of the three wnmedrflew thick and fast, the youngsters joined in and enjeyed ﬁhe fun. This was kept up for three malss at the fourth msal, howavarg doma distinguished guests were pfeseni, who had been let into the secret” The oaths Still fell from.the lips of nether, Lucretia, dud Susan, but wheﬁ %hey'were uﬁtered the gentleman jumped a little and looked horrified, but never smi1ed.ur spoke. just A'word of'exp1anatio here: the servant problammwas as rampani ix those days as ncw, and as mother entertained oonstaﬁtly and desired her repasts well served, she had trained her three oldasi boys to'wait on ﬁable. They had white suits, were paid for their services, and took great pride in doing it to the bes£.af their ability. V To return to the story: 'fEé boys'were distressed, as they servsd the guests, to see the look of disapproval on Governor Seward‘s and Gerrit Smith’$ faces as their hostess and her two Quakér friends ripped out their oaths. So when ihey got their mother alone, they gathered around her and with tears in their eyes said: "Oh, mother, what will the Governor and Cousin Gerrit think, hearing you Swear like thaﬁ?” "W611", she said, "you boys all do it, and so we £hought‘we would also; don‘t you like to hear us?" “Oh, no, other,“ they replied, with the tears running dawn their cheeks. “Oh, v9ry‘We1l," she said, her arms about two cf the lads as thay leaned against her, while the third boy sat on a stool ai her feet with his head in her lap, “If you boys will stop swearing, I will alsa.” And they did. Mrs. Stanton and the Clergz Mw'mpther always had many friends among the clergy; théy seemed ta delight in.having arguments with her on the s‘her:fof woman. Among the fdmi1y‘s ‘ (I; ,5, V 1 A y ‘ 56 .~xw'» _. 4 " . ’ girls of his brood and the bays of her‘s were devoted to each oﬁher. ’Hbther, at one time, asked her;%gys'which church they would rather 1 attend. Their answar was: “Oh, let’s take a paw in the church where tha clergy» 154 men Wears e nightgown end mentilla". iSo they all went to the Epieoopel Shuroh. At this time the laying of the first Atlantic Ceble'wes under disous» sion. The Rev. Mr. G. ardently maintained that it could never be done, while mes. Stanton as positively said that it could. She said: ~"Whatever the humeh mind oen eonoeive can be oarried out", - the tenor of her argument showing olearly the stti~ tude ofimind she held on all new ideas. Too Much for a Bishop 4 One day the Bishop of the Diocese of‘Western New York, the Rev. Mr, Sex, was calling on my mother; he was violently opposed to the ballot for “ladies”, ahd'eas holding forth on the disabilities of women as a bar to their having the vote. “dhy, Bishop Cox“, exclaimed mother, "I didn‘t know that women had any dise abilities; pray mention them." “Well”, he said, "surely motherhood is a disability, Mrs. Stanton." "On the contrary, Bishop", she quickly answered, "motherhood is an added glory to womn. It is something that you men cannot do, - give birth to an immortal soul: If it be a disability, why does your church, the whole world around, celebrate the Magnifioat every Sabbath morning glorifying motherhood?”' "Y~e~s,3re~s”, ow ~t&4r¢ said the Bishop, hesitatingly, "that is true, Mrs. Stanton. I neveoriﬁeeoaihy ’ if c, in that light before. But - you must admit that your skirts are a disability." “Ry, Bishop"; quickly answered my mother, "we are not born with skirts on. ‘we lay them.off whenever we choose. And I notice that when you on go into the pulpit you put on flowing robes, and so do the Judges of the Supreme Court before they take their pleoes on the bench. This is done to give added dignity to the position.” “Y¥e-s, y-e—s," reluctantly drawled the Bishop, “I never looked at it from.thet angle before. I think you may be right.” Finally, with a hearty laugh and throeihg his head book, he said: "I think there is no use in.my trying to argue'With you, dear lady; we would better discuss arti” Mos; Stanton's Powers of Conversation In a biogrephioal sketch of ow'Hwther, ritten by one of the ost o brilliant neeseeper men of her day, I find the following: “Her gift of gifts is o eonveesstion, Her throne of queeoship is not the offioiel oheir of the ﬁomee’s Eigsts Conveetion,{thougn she eleeys presides with dignity end ease), tut is rather a seat st the social board, where the oomyeny are elderly, oonservetive gentlemen, who combine to argue her down. I think she was never ergued down in her life. ‘ . Go into the oroherd, jar the fruitwleden trees one after another, end not e greater shower of plums, cherries and pomegranates will fell about your head then the eittioisms, anecdotes, and repsftees which this bounteous women sheds down in her teble talk. Housekeeping, babies, free trade, temperance, and women suf- frage are her favorite themes. ‘tony 3 person, after spending e delightful evening in her society, has gone away, saying, "ﬁell, that is ﬁedeme De Steel alive agein.” How She Qoelled e Bully. Mrs. Stanton always had the ooorege of her convictions, Which, with a re~ former,is half the battle. This was never better illustrated them in the following incident. She was back in her old home, Johnstown, visiting her mother. She and her sister, ﬁrs. Eaton,1sere walking toward the cemetery to visit the graves of their forebears. Now3iErs. Eaton was a very proper, conservative woman, not in the least democratic; e very beautiful person, with snoW~white,‘Wevy hair, who never 1%“ got out of spherei As they passed the blacksmith shop, the Smith, a huge men, was pouhding e smell one, while a crowd of men and boys looked on, apparently enjoying the scene; as members of the sterner sex have s vey of ﬂoing in street fights. set one raised e finger to stop the onequal contest. But the moment my mother ep- peered and grasped the situation, she rushed up and separates the men, took her position in front of the giant blacksmith, seized his arms by their great bulgine C) N , . .&W. . .. biceps muscles, end bede ham stop; adding, "You are 1n danger of kxlllng that little men, my deer fellow, then.you sill be put in prison, tried, and will have ,to hang, for the few minutes of angry fighting in'ehioh you have indulged.” ;Then’ she turned her heed over her shoulder and asked that crowd if theyseere not ss that of the men, end their self-sacrifice and devotion were disgleyed in many end M’ J .17 eshmed to stand by esglehe raise a finger to stop so unequal s contest. iheenehile the little men hed;mede his escape; and the meh and boys, with hanging heeds, slunk away. ihother said she could feel the blecksmith‘s greet biceps relax under her touch. ‘Then she begged his pardon for reproving him before a crowd of his peers, but she said she could not bear to see him, in his teeering rage,rushing madly to certain death. She told him that she had five sons of her own and was accustomed to stopping fights. So she left him.end joined her sister, who had walked on, end nes greeted with, ”hell,Lib Csdy; I never knee anybody like youi That man is the ugliest creature in town, everyone is afreid of him. He is.slways thrashing someone, and he will be so mad at you for disgrecing him before that crowd that it won‘t be safe for you to go out of the house." "Honsense, Harriot”, said mother, “you just'wait and see. He has too much that is good in him. I ceuld tell it by his face." And sure enough, this wise and courageous woman had awakened the best elements in that great burly blacksmith, and early the next morning the front doer~bell rang: there he stood, all dressed up, freshly sheven, asking for‘hrs.i Stehton. In his hend'Wes e beautifullxnﬁpuﬁaof flowers for her from his garden. He thhnhed her,'With tears in his eyes, for saving him from.his angry passions. They had a long talk on various subjects, At parting he took her hand and told her she eould never realize what she had done for him. And often during her stay in Jchnstowh he called and left flowers for her, and if she were at home, he would stop and have s long talk. ﬁbmen end the Civil War. Inzsy mother's reminiscences, “Eighty Years and sore”, she tells of the greet work the eomeh of the United States aid during the Civil War. She sums it all up thus: "The patriotism of the women shone forth as fervently and spontaneously ,._,'§::._..,,,,,.:, - . ..- »z.'-;.-«x-.. ‘- -‘ varied fields of sction. ..... ’When the war broke out Women were in four trades; ; . ; ‘.,«”"-"'"«‘_-’,»"‘7T”"’T"'7""":"”-¢’f-?“!*"" ‘"6’ fhsﬂ ‘ " - ‘ "' ____.___.. » fr’- 3st the end of the war they eere in four hundred. That tells itsﬁgwn $t°?y$ *****% _, _.JJ., cl ,4 . - —. - - .r ».r-' -«A--»-' ‘ ‘chi i . /718. 1 //--'5 1.... V T The truehistory of the Civil ear will never be fully eritten if the achievements oft e the eomen.sre left untold." The somsn‘s Loyal League . RF‘ ‘In 1882, we moved to New York City. The following year, mother and miss Anthony formed The hbmen‘s Loyal Leegue,'with mother as President andlniss Anthony es Secretary. The League did noble work throughout the war. Its task was to awaken public sentiment by writing and speaking, and to secure signatures to pewl titions to Congress urging that body so to amend the Constitution as to prohibit the existence of slavery in the United States of America. Great meetings'were held all over hen York City, especially at Cooper Unions Signstures'were taken at these gatherings, and in the end petitions carrying over half a million names were sent to Congress. The League was formed after oonsults~ tion'sith such men as Horace Greeley, William.Lloyd Garrison, Governor Andrews, Robert Dale Owen, and others, and did a great educational work, as letters of en-, dorsement received from.generals, statesmen, and editors show conclusively. ﬁrs. Stanton as e Presiding Officer; ‘ It was in Boston that my mother had learned her lessons in how to manage mohs3 and in theﬂi years, when she, herself, was ' huge meetings, a sell , A u. v _ known men, the Rev. Charles F. Deans, of the Church of the Strangers, Wrote of her: "I have studied hrs. Stanton hours at a sitting when she was presiding over those big public meetings at Cooper Union, New York City, and the mob was hissing and shouting; the tact with ehioh she managed that nhole assembly and moulded it to her'nill'Wss a marvel. Except Henry Clay, of Kentucky, she was the best gresiding officer I have ever seen." er _,_/» 3&3. E‘ I ' I’ r -f 7 <3?‘ ’ fﬁmﬁﬂry Clemmes sees, a writer in the Independent&;ss§sﬁ‘ "'3' u 5 a Elisabeth Cedy Stanton embodies in her person the noblest type of the Emericen metron.~~ Ber shite hair surls closely about her fine forehead; her dark eves, l9 quick end earnest, flesh under its side arches, clear reflections of every feeling and thought eithin. Her features are noble, the lines of the mouth es sweet as they are strong, her dress rich and quiet. She has powerful megnetism.es a public speaker, for ell the forces of her rich personality seem fused into her eords. She / ¥ G 6 C I IS logical, earnest and eloquent, and never mennish 1n;msnner. Home L ifs , Ih.my mother‘s autobiography she gives a vivid picture of our home life at this period. so had moved from hew'York to Tenefly, New Jersey, only e few miles from the city. There we had a pretty new house on the western slope of the Palisades; It was large and room, surrounded with magnificent old trees. She writes: "These were busy, happy years, of varied interests, public and private. Sons and dsuphters, graduating from Vassar College, Cornell University and Columbia College Law School, bringing troops of young.people to visit us. The usual love affairs and matrimonial entanglements, weddings, journeys to Europe, business ventures,~ in the Whirl of plans and projects our heads, hearts and hehds'Were fully occupied. ..... Seven boys and girls dancing around the fireside bouyent with life’s joys opening before them, are enough to keep the most apathetic parents on the ‘Watch-tower by day, and anxious, even in drezslend, by night. Ey spare time, if it can be said that I ever had any, was given to social festivities. ... hear us lived the publisher of The Sup, Isecc‘h. England, sho also had seven sons and daughters, as full of frolic as our own. ﬁrs. Engleud and I entered into all their games with equal zest; from.the youngest to the oldest they all thought half the fun'wes to see our enthusiasm in ‘blind men’s buff’, ‘fox and geese’, and “":"‘t¥:<"t "/-'“’5?'*’ ii ?A_é-f".—s ’ ‘bean bags’. I laugh es I srite at the memhry of all thegfrolics we had on the 7g .e 0 c,~ 35 . blue hills of Jersey. ;’¢ﬁ”*@»e The Revolution ; In 1867 ere. Stanton sndliiss enthouy established “The Revolution", e political uesspeper, of ehich my sother see editor-in-chief. “During this burning so time of the reconstruction period these the semen stood almost alone in yreaching the political policy which it would have been'Wise had the nation folhowed”, Writes her daughter, hrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. “They fought step by step, as the new aeendmehts‘eere added to the United States Constitution, for women as Well as men to be protected under the last and if there was to be a qualification placed upon the newly enfranchised, it should be a qualification of edutatioh. The political insight and grasp of the editorial deeartmeht of *The Revolutiosl is a my- monument to the'eisdom of its editor—in-chief." But that little word “male” crept into the Constitution, and it took till /f:md l A 191% to get it out, - over seventy yearsi Founding the National ﬂoman Suffrage Association, In l869 the National Woman Suffrage Association was founded, mother was made its first President, and she retained that office consecutively for over twentw—five ears/ Great conventions were held in different cities each rear J Y .. 3 especially in.Washington, D.C.iwhenfthe women had “Hearings” before various , J , > ’ V '" .5‘ I Congressional Committees. Lyceums and Lectures, Mrs. Stanton became convinced that in order to advance the suffrage move- ment it was necessary to push the propagahda on a wider stage, and for that reason,, in 1869, she gave her name for the first time to a lecture bureau. and for the next twelve years of her eventful life she travelled all over the country; lecturing for eight months of the year. host of her children were grown up,~ some in college, some in business; her capable, quaker housekeeper, Amelie, was still'sith her, so that all things moved along smoothly during her absences. ~ The Lyceum Bureau was at this time one of the great features in smerican life. ‘hany of the distinguished men and semen of both this and foreign lands were constantly on the wing giving of their best to the large audiences that assemhled 21 ell over the notion. ind the sudienoes richly deserved the best thet dnuld he given, for, particularly in theﬂdest and iatiﬁﬁ Middle West, the country people oame to the lecture centers, often from fifty, sevsnty~five, or even one hundred miles. ‘hothers brought their babies. ﬁhole families - father, mother, uncles, aunts, grsnd~perents, children and pets ~ drove inbehind their fine horses; to hear the message that the lecturer ~ often at enormous personal effort u had come to give. ﬁrs. Stanton from having been one of the most ridiculed endzmﬁsunderstood of women, soon became one of the most popular lecturers of her day. She was in great demand all over the country. The two speeches that were most called for were "Our Girls" and “Our Boys”. "They were full to overflowing with sound, common sense, showed sympathy sod underw standing of youth, and contained tactful and trenchant advice to parents. They 7.7 =9‘ ‘Were classics in that their ideas are not confined to any time; they are as souhd tods es they were in 1870”, writes my sister,.Mrs. Blotc.. Before mother gave up her Lyceum Work she had a long list of lectures and spoke in:mony a town year after year. She had several addresses for women alone, on "hotherhood", "The Care of Babies", "Dress; Diet and Hygiene". Those she gave in the afternoons. She had another speech on ”Thurlow Weed, William H. Seward, and Horace Greeley”, - all of them her personal friends, ~‘Whioh‘Was ex~ tremely popular. Horace Greeley and the Ballot‘, The friendship between mother and Greeley was a vividly interesting one, even though they differed on many points. Why deer lady”, he ssid one dey,'shehi they were having a heated discussion on votes for women, “Don’t you knor that the bullet and the ballot go together? Are you ready to go to war and fight?” "Yes, or. Greeley," she answered quickly, "I’m willing to fight just as you fought in the late oar of the Rebellion, by sending my paid substitute." During that ssr, perhaps some of my young readers may not know, you ooold 22 ff pay a man three or four hundred dollars, ono he oou1@‘and fight for goui Famous women of the Bible, In the course of her looturing'work throughout the United Stotoo mother had several sermons on “Famous ﬁohon of the Bible“. Those she govo in Ghurohoo on Sunday, when she stayed over Week-onds in a place. She opoko before the inmatos of blind asylumo, to the doaf and dumb,» with an interpreter standing behind hor; to the men in prisons in various states; to the students in tho oollogoo and medical schools; before political oonvontions and state logisloturos. .- oSho was over ready for any coll wade upon her. *5. hrs. Stanton Addresses tho Prisoners at Jackson, Eiohigan . In 1874 a Constitutional Convention was held in ﬁiohigan and the proposition ‘Was to be voted upon,;to givo‘the vote to the women of the State. Mother and ébmamdhnuu»/L“ ‘Susan B. 5nthony'woro invited to go and help carry the paagcuééésn. It was a A ist vary ootive oampalgn. The hetho@’Conferenoe passed a rosolutlonyln favor of the 1 ﬁmondmont_by a unanimous vote. Thogiethodists, Unitarions, Uhivorsolists, and Quakers throw open their pulpits to the apostles of the ngw gospel of equality for Woman. §y:mother spoke every evening to large audiences, every afternoon to women alono, and preaohod every Sunday in some tulpit. Those two indofotigab&o‘womon .1. spoke in jails, prisons, asylumo, dopots, the ooon air, and to the collage studohto at tho State University at Ann Arbor. "Wherever there were oars to hear us, we lifted up our voices”, hrs. Stanton says. The votes of forty thousand men were oast for the amendment, aI€‘tho proposition was lost. During that campaign mother was staying at the home of Governor Bogloy. ho'wos in favor of woman suffrage, ahd dooply interested in prison rofonm: so ho urgoé mother to spook to the mom in tho largo Stato prison at Joohsoht She readily _ Jhumvz oohoootoé to do so. .She dooidod that the news of the day woulé interest thooﬁ so she toio them'ehy the women“eere in the State working fat the imendmeni to ramgvg the word male from the Constitutiom, and thus give the mothers something to soy ebouﬁ how things shouid be managed. She eloeys addressed them.ee “Gentlemen”, which gloesed the prisoners very muhh. She told them that if the proyoeition “were oerried, one of the first things the women would do would be to imgrove the prisons.’ Then she drew a word picture of an ideal prison. It was esubjeot’ she had lookeﬁ into very carefully one about which she had many edenoed ideee: no capital pﬁniehment, plenty of out~door'work, amusements, a school to help the uneduoated, good food, training in some trade, pay for their work, and money sent home to their families. She knew all about men and boys, hevimg had five soné} a husband, a brother and a father. She told those men stories, made them laugh, never referred to their sins, in closing she said, "Now, gentlemen, having heard my arguments why the women of Fichigen should be emancipated, how many of you, if you could go to the polls and cast a ballot this Fall, would voﬁe for the gmeniment?" They all stood uo, to the last man: “eh”, she leughingly said, "gentlemengi how I'wish you were all free to vote for us, and that an equal number of our enemies were here in your piaoesi“ They laughed and applauded heartily, and as they filed out each gave her a salute. She said, "I felt satisfied that they had had one hepey hour, and thei I had said nothing to hurt the feelings of the most unfortunate.” OiiiﬂiﬁlﬁlimgfillOIOIOOOOSOOI _ , "gig! , . ; re‘ of { H: ElieebethiCad¥%Stanton : : as she lgokeowﬁgie og : E the 1eoﬁgre.§1e££o£:ﬁ : 759$ sconceooosescoovooooooaoucocs The tales of sorrow one woe that were poured into the ears of this ﬁﬁother 2% in Isreel" by the men and women of this nation made her see thihgs in their true 0 Mrs. Stenton’s Greoe. Often'when mother stayed in prvate houses the hostesses did their own hark, As it would be an important episode in their lives to entertain so distinguished a guest, they would invite relatives std numerous friends for the occasion. hother was often asked to say grace. At first she refused, then she sys, §In.my travels through the West I often sew weary little women coming to the table after meet ehhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands end thanking the Lord for the meals that the deer women had prepared, as if the whole came down likezmanna from.heeven. So I preached a sermon ih the blessing I gave. :1 fi You will notice, she remerks’"that it has three heresies in it. "Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us everzmindful of the patient hands that oft in Weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity‘s xxr sﬂm,mmn. » §hen.mother finished and all had raised their heads she met the astonished glances of those gathered shout the table. She noticed how pleased the little hostess looked, and how high she held her heedl The guests esked:mother where she got that grace, saying they had"hever heard anything like it." idould she write it iﬂ their sutogreph albums?‘ Several ladies hadtheirszfremed and hung in their dihingrooms, end to this day I am constantly mehing copies oof it.for people. The babies, too, as s previous story has indicated, needed to be thankful that she was in e position to'eitness the wrongs being done to them. She was the fairy god«mother to many an infant that travelled on the trein with her during these extensive lecturing trips. thhenever she heard a child cry she sent at once to its mother and asked to take it.l Often she gve it its first drink of*seters Oh one occasion she boarded a train and took the only vsosht seet beside 25 a banignwlaaking gentleman. £5 soon as the train startad hm aﬁkgd her if aha knaw‘ anything absuﬁ babies. Sha told him.that aha knaw all abeuﬁ them; having haé aevéﬁ cf her own. “$911”, he said, "that baby that is crying, hasm’t Stmpped sinaa I ggt on this train hours ago. If youfll get ii and bring it here, I3 11 provide a rubber tab, tawels and water, and'wa‘11 see what a bath will da". It was a hat summer day; T29 weary yQung:mother readily consenteé, handed my mcther fresh clathes and the baby, put her haad back, and was sound aaleep in a few sacon&a§ Two men get up in front 55 mother's seat, which they turned over and installed the bath tub tharggn, ?irst tha boy was given a drink of cool water, undressed, than puﬁ into the tub. ﬁany gathered abeut to see the operation. The baby cooad, and smiled and splasheﬁ about under ﬁrs. Stanton's capmhle hands. Then she dried it. Eeanwhile the tub had been removed, a dry tawel put on the seat, and on thighnmther laid the Q%ild§ ‘with another towel over it, and it was souﬁﬁ asieep before you could say ”Jac% Robinson.“ Eeryone heaved a sigh of relief and soon the whole car was in the land of mod:
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1897-10-20

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1897-05
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 20-Oct
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Show moreﬁlm L318 91*‘ k¢_ﬁf§VTQ fgg F éS:3¥w§ In July, 1%, hi stry me:-as ‘ first maver at aazzezmg %* di s<:zms~in f téizeir litisal, * Swami wrrzggs. th A ga hm ext and mz<% my mother, ﬁrm ‘the zm:;2.fa? aauzrzt ri as and Ems ha :2 g V 3, in and and Erzer cl Elissa , :2; st M , 21% $8 % ?§'::3_it‘d Stat up , ":2. azld Sir? Saut h $13. we» Emva vtacf. by pmxy mveral M" ‘blew Md éﬁarlé far years. hi stry of ﬁmmean’s m'e.r.1g3 “i2:f3.@3S'@ :*1.eve2? haufg b@$3t; M fvarabl a “time ‘ta dam her lie e%L ‘E:$’:1i‘I:M iat i an in first tima in tfzizigs Raublie a far W ham fer 3 $1 it i 91 sidmt wh. ?;2.a3 riolam himself in favtzr sf °w% Ysrk hag We 2:1 Pmsidant Eassvalt was Gmmr f K tlfii ajzzfmmhi :3! int t}::s..*%ama:: f the t e in hi 8 :.%$§§ ?% gismm m, and ublia aoaagim. k fm°t?%,%1isa wt if ju% éefrmde f their mast cred ri gght , m that umderl ms all thaw , V6106 in ‘km laaa. am», aa aataara aaia “He . faraaé‘aitaaui aha sanaant af taa gav » aaaaahaaada b tha.Praaidant at Fitahburg am.L* aaa “ia.favar af an aaid that aa taa Uaitaa Stataa, aaafarriag additiaaal g ~ra1 gavw A1‘ tlrexj. f araaaai ta daal aaaa ca aaratiana.“ for taa aaat iataraata Ta aaaaral and raatraia_gia t aanapaliaa af all aha paaala ia af vaat iapart, but sf far waster iaaarﬁamaa ia aha aataaliahmaat and praﬁaetien.ef taa rights and libartzaa pbﬁr 3ay, ha eaa half taa paapla of the United Stataa —~ the aaat aaral half, tae ~» aaaa1y,*aaaaa. Suraly ta ra ia as gratarvmmn9pa1y'%haa.taat sf all aaa.ia daaying ta all aaaan a voioa ia.tha laws the ara aamaallaa taaby. Gatabara20, 1932. i1izabath.Cady Sta if ta 1 - «ms :5’ I“ '°’ ' ‘V ' 7: ,,x 1 V f('..=».~ -.=>—. ‘ A ' A Original in COPY Alma Lutz Collection Please Copy WOMEN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT. In July, 1848, history records the first movement among women for the discussion of their political, religious and social wrongs. Since then the demand for the right of suffrage has extended over many countries and has been granted, in one form or another, in the United States, in England and her colonies, in Australia, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and New South Wales. I Tax-paying women have voted by proxy in several nations of the Old World for many years. In the long history of woman's srongs there never has been so favorable a time to demand her complete emancipation in the United States as now, for we have for the first time in this Republic a President who has declared himself in favor of woman‘s political equality. When President Roosevelt was Governor of New York he recommended the enfranchisement of the women of the State in his message to the New York Legislature, and expressed the same opinion on several public occasions. Now is the opportune time for leading women to ask the President to make the same demand in his coming Message to Congress for this act of justice to thirty~six million American citizens new defrauded of their most sacred right, one that underlies all others, a voice in the laws. For, as the Fathers said long ago: “No just government can be formed without the consent of the governedg“ & In a speech made by the President at Fitchbnrg on Labor Day, he said that he was “in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the the United States, conferring ndditionel power upon the feﬁerel government to deal with corporations." To control end restrain giant monopolies for the best interests of all the people is of vast import, but of far vaster importance is the establishment and protection of the rights end liberties of one half the people of the United States ~« the most moral half, too ~ namely, women. Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of ell men in denying to all women a voice in the laws they ere oomoelled to obeye Qotober 203 1902. Elisabeth Gndy Stanton. Note: This is a copy of the appeal written & prepared for mailing to the press by Mrs. Stanton e few days before her death. October 26, 1902. An envelope addressed to Oswald Villerd, Editor of the Nation is attached.
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1870-05-21

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1896-03-20
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1885-03-13
Text: 7 // q ~ w cgﬂ Jonnstown Maren 13th (iégg ’ Deer Hr. Underwood If the Independent has anything of mine it must have been copied from some other eaper. My speech at the Wash. Con. was on that subject “ the limitations & disabilities of sex” & what I had said in The Index was was incorporated in that speech, & that speech was published in full in The Womans Tribune. The Womans Journal copied The Index arw ticle giving you credit. What The Independent bee must have been copied as I...
Show more7 // q ~ w cgﬂ Jonnstown Maren 13th (iégg ’ Deer Hr. Underwood If the Independent has anything of mine it must have been copied from some other eaper. My speech at the Wash. Con. was on that subject “ the limitations & disabilities of sex” & what I had said in The Index was was incorporated in that speech, & that speech was published in full in The Womans Tribune. The Womans Journal copied The Index arw ticle giving you credit. What The Independent bee must have been copied as I have sent them nothing in years. with kind regards Sincerely yours Elizabeth Csdg ﬁtanton
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1840-11-03
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I \ >_, r,/ /4“ , »(;1‘r 3;,» ’,/ ‘>1 / Z‘ J/I’; 4, all //r ,/,—4./&—1_-. / /’ x / // t D / (J7 I X K,/::, »» « :5 “T7 , ,4 7/ _ :7 ,. / /2;//,;./«//’»::.a L,» /~ A ~ , / ,4 '_ ,.—-V/'1 /» 1 V 45, /J ’/K, M /C»x,./—«z:// _: g<_'iA/5-'”'.[:,;’{/V ~ 3 /4. .. < 4 " '//ikv .,> ,. - 5/ ’ f /'1" ,4»;>//2x664?’/-" ‘(/--é/Z%.,,[,7/J , Q/.4/«-Z...€_ » -~ Q1:/2-:z.».,//",'/«° I/' ' — ’ I Original in Alma Lute I Collection Lendon Novaﬁrﬁ (1840) ﬁeer friend. ﬂed I the control of my own movements or even of Henry‘e I ehould have been with you now, but the feet ie Joseph aturge commands and we obey, I have nothowever yet given up the hope of eeeing you at Qerlingtone We did think of eeillng on the ?th but it ie how poetponed indefinitely» Temorrow we go to Nerwieh where we ehall have a meeting on Friday night there is to be e gathering of the cevilteationiete there et that time. I spent a week at Dublin very pleasantly and received your note there. I wee glad to find that Gerrieon bee ee many were friends in Ireland, Richard Webb and I hed much pleeeere in ooepere ing notes of the past: A James G. Birney ea%le in the Go We the 7th, we parted with him at Birmingham where we spent a dey with that deer good men Jeeeph stereee What do you think of the Belfast breekfeet? Net e einele ehe wee admitted. Had I been there I would have gone, though expreee ordere eeme from London that on that morning the Lore of Greetioneuet breekfeet elone. The women of Belfast were indienente aha well they might bee I do hopeeooo to get time to write you a long letter but this evening K em in heete having many notes end eome emerieen letters te write before I leave LQﬂdOﬂe Geod night ~ Henry geine me in kind regerde to youreelfe Father, Mother and all those whom we know in Derlingtone Adieu your einoere friend Elizeheth G. ﬁtentee Te Elizabeth Peeee Derlingten
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1895-07-28
Text: Original in Alma Lutz Collection ﬂ Peterbaro Madisan Co New York July 28 Dear Mrs Send fifty cents to 35 Wall Street N.Y; European Publishing Company & they will send you a copy of the woman's Bible I have nine at hand. The retail price is fifty cents, if you take one or two dozen you get them for thirty cents. Thus in a large number you cbuld make a good profit. If you take a package of twenty~f1ve or over you get them for 25 cents apieceo Yours truly Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: n.d.
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 27-May
Text: i / @%L/ « %/ ,/// 3‘ W% L / ‘ / 1/ o /M / ,/ , » //I ( “‘7‘-~ lu’{ai§,r 27th Dear Mrs Darlington I have such pleasant meeories of my visit to you that I should indeed be glad to see you.in the leafy month of June but I do not see my way clear just new & hesitate topromise what I feer I shall be u — able to perform. Having tested your hospitality I feel assured you could make me comfortable. But my chief care is in leaving home as four of my sons are at home & I K, expect three more...
Show morei / @%L/ « %/ ,/// 3‘ W% L / ‘ / 1/ o /M / ,/ , » //I ( “‘7‘-~ lu’{ai§,r 27th Dear Mrs Darlington I have such pleasant meeories of my visit to you that I should indeed be glad to see you.in the leafy month of June but I do not see my way clear just new & hesitate topromise what I feer I shall be u — able to perform. Having tested your hospitality I feel assured you could make me comfortable. But my chief care is in leaving home as four of my sons are at home & I K, expect three more children from school the last of June. ll am looking over summer clothes, house cleaning & c, e c. an‘.- The W ardrotes of nine persons & £f the same is not a small circumstance & keeping the peace when together needs a governing power such as women onlyxMH%<$With kind regards e my best wishes that your meeting may be pleasant & profitable I Yours ever Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1898-03-23
Text: 17' 1», 5. , 7, / / K“ - .. i v’ ' I ’( .1} 1 i " " J / 1 M Copy of original in Alma Lutz Collection 2” River St. Boston. 26 %@st~ 613$ ﬁt. ﬂew York Déar Ere. Ellaworth I send you a few ncticea of “Eighty Years anﬁ §ore?§ to give to your friends in the Hotel, or to slip into letter to neighbors in your summer heme, anﬁ thus oblige Yaurs sincerely Eligabeth Gady Stantmn (Only the signature is in the handwriting of ﬁrs. Staaton)

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1879-03-24
Text: C O P Y Oswego, Kan. March 24th (1879) Dear Hattie, What a queer child you are to answer a letter. You never say, yours of such a date, containing letters from Maggie, Frank, Bob, or Theodore, received. You never reply or comment on anything I say, so that I never know whether you get any of my letters. It is most unsatisfactory. I sent you two letters last week each containing $50. Let me know if you get them. Just received one here from you. I had thought it might wellibr you to remain...
Show moreC O P Y Oswego, Kan. March 24th (1879) Dear Hattie, What a queer child you are to answer a letter. You never say, yours of such a date, containing letters from Maggie, Frank, Bob, or Theodore, received. You never reply or comment on anything I say, so that I never know whether you get any of my letters. It is most unsatisfactory. I sent you two letters last week each containing $50. Let me know if you get them. Just received one here from you. I had thought it might wellibr you to remain another year in Boston, spend your summers in reading. I want you to be thoroughly prepared before making your debut sotshat you may feel satisfied with your own work I suffer the miserable feeling all the time of condemnation of my own efforts. 2” If another year at Boston would, you feel, be of great service there is no hurry Take your time, all the culture you need Ofcnurse I long to have you.with me, but I desire your improvement first. Tell-me-my~sweet—ene;-why-yea I have just returned from my lecture.. Am sitting alone in a little Hotel on the prairies away beyond the Mississippi in Kansas & shall be going west in this state & Nebraska for a month yet, further, further from my precious girl baby I cannot tell you how happy the thought that in two months we shall meet again, to part no more, for if you go to Boston next winter I shall go too. I intend to stick to you like a burr closer than a brother. But I must to bed. Good night my pretty one. Tell Marmie all about your blues, who advised you, & if you lack any of the comforts of life. Lay all your little arms on my shoulders With love & kisses $ 7,: ‘VV V ‘-31! Mother‘
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Text: “Virtue founded on fear is only vice in a fit of dejection” “Will is the thing in - itself, the inner content, the essence of the world.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Creator: Stanton, Robert Livingston
Date: n.d.

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1896-08-30
Text: 1?’ * 1, 3' 4. 3;, 1: g, 7 /V // ;'/ /I /1 '/ L 1/ f/ L . 1’ // \~t I ./7. f /I / if V 4 V 11/ , iv _/ I / /17 7 / if ,7 /5 V V; . V. . ’/ V4’ /1 J3» Ami" /5: ‘ L!» 5" V 1/ / ~ /1 _.o (‘ /4! , 1/ “ ‘C/’ ./ 1/ / ’//V at 1.“ 3’ 1 ,~. \ \\ Z Z 2?’ 1/ V} V /X ./ / Tenafly N. J. K August 30 {_%e%e§ E. D. ?hillipS Dear Sir You will find an interesting sketch of my feohey written by my husband in The Appendex of 18 Vol. of Barboure Reports of the Supreme Court of New York...
Show more1?’ * 1, 3' 4. 3;, 1: g, 7 /V // ;'/ /I /1 '/ L 1/ f/ L . 1’ // \~t I ./7. f /I / if V 4 V 11/ , iv _/ I / /17 7 / if ,7 /5 V V; . V. . ’/ V4’ /1 J3» Ami" /5: ‘ L!» 5" V 1/ / ~ /1 _.o (‘ /4! , 1/ “ ‘C/’ ./ 1/ / ’//V at 1.“ 3’ 1 ,~. \ \\ Z Z 2?’ 1/ V} V /X ./ / Tenafly N. J. K August 30 {_%e%e§ E. D. ?hillipS Dear Sir You will find an interesting sketch of my feohey written by my husband in The Appendex of 18 Vol. of Barboure Reports of the Supreme Court of New York You will find these Reports in any lawyers office Respectfully yours v Elizgbeth Gady Stenton Peterboro New York Dear Mr Phillips I have no Photograph of my late husband, he'l=iva'e.e elwagrs CLUéTsebelng photogggraphed or painted 8:; but one very poor picture of him is extent which I would not have reproduced as it does him great injustice. He was a very handsome man in youth & very bright & youthful in age Sincerely yours Elizabeth Cody Stanton
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1876-11-01
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1874-02-13
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1869-01-29
Text: C O P Y Dear Sir, In View of thé infamous laws on our statute books for woman can she trust man to be Judgé Juror, Law-giver and representaw tive? Elizabath Gady Stanton. January 29th 1869

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1890-01-13
Text: Alma Lutz Collectien G O P Y 26 Weérélat AM“ In L J 1 3th Dear Era Ward I send you a f$%L & timely letter from my daughter, which I ghould like to gee in “The Independent“, as it is read ac extensively by the women in our country, & we want their influence in favor of peace. with the best wiahes of the season far your health & Eapgimess. Sincerely yours, Elizabeth Cady Stantmn

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1911-03-03
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1870-03-18
Text: Alma Lute Collection C 0 P Y Wt V? 4”)‘ "_<"-' I J” 5 3; »..~'«' 137* ;f'"’§,"'g,,,-1 " ~o Private Dr. H. Hayes Ward Dear Sir: ’ “ The men of my family are all unwilling to heve me go before that committee es every witness in these oeeee heve been eoerified more then the parties. Mr. Stanton thinks my effedevit ee to ell I know woula enewer every purpose. Before a committee I might I might answer some question, or accidentally make some...
Show moreAlma Lute Collection C 0 P Y Wt V? 4”)‘ "_<"-' I J” 5 3; »..~'«' 137* ;f'"’§,"'g,,,-1 " ~o Private Dr. H. Hayes Ward Dear Sir: ’ “ The men of my family are all unwilling to heve me go before that committee es every witness in these oeeee heve been eoerified more then the parties. Mr. Stanton thinks my effedevit ee to ell I know woula enewer every purpose. Before a committee I might I might answer some question, or accidentally make some remark, when I might not have exact knowledge to eubstentiete my ooinioee I have tolé you all I know about this eooiel eerthquehe, eo you can judge whether it ie of any reel velue to your ceeee And this much I may add that es I have meter eeeh ﬁr, Bowen, he is not “the lake“, where oelm wetere have reveeleé whet I heve seen or lheerd. Sincerely youreyt Elizabeth Cedy Stanton Jﬁénafly, N.JI March 18th EW1‘ Undoubtedly refers to the Beeoher_Tj1ton case and Plymouth Church oommittee*e inveetigetion of ohergee egeinet Henry Nerd Beeohefg
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1839-09-11
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1893-12-15
Text: Z4; I/Ak,Qg.,,& {</’%uﬁ_,V 26 West 61 Ste Dear % . Bryce As the antagonism of the sexes, will probably continue with their attractiveness scmetime yet, my article will be apropos whenever you are ready to print. So you need not hurry. Yeurs sincerely Elizabeth Cady Stanton (The North Amarican Review) J75‘; %) éwg {?w¥£m«ﬁT#”’ 7 , 9 J’ , 7' « ._.,“=}, . w gft;’~Izf;?,~,»1§,,g;i§xﬁ“f‘?_3,3‘:\ ‘z W sq» «V ,. V; 5, , ~i!"

Creator: Lawrence, Margaret Stanton
Date: n.d.
Text: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON 1815 — 1915. ******** A Sketch of her Life by her elder daughter MARGARET STANTON LAWRENCE An Afterword “by her younger daughter HARRIQT STANTON BLATCH ******** As the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is to have three public celebrations this summer and autumn, and the proposition to give the ballot to the women of New York State is to be submitted to the vote of its male citizens at the November election, I thought it might be well to...
Show moreELIZABETH CADY STANTON 1815 — 1915. ******** A Sketch of her Life by her elder daughter MARGARET STANTON LAWRENCE An Afterword “by her younger daughter HARRIQT STANTON BLATCH ******** As the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is to have three public celebrations this summer and autumn, and the proposition to give the ballot to the women of New York State is to be submitted to the vote of its male citizens at the November election, I thought it might be well to revive a few of the facts in the life of the remarkable woman who first helped open the Colleges to girls; who helped to gain for the married women of ﬂew York the right to hold property in their own name; and who started the Whole question of VOTES FOR WOMEN in the United States away back in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. CHILDHOOD Elizabeth Cady was one of the five eaughtere of Judge Daniel Cady and hie wife Margaret Livingeton of Johnetowh, New York, where ehe W38 born November 13, 1815. Judge Cedy out» lived three generations of lawyers, he eaten the Supreme Court bench till he was over eighty years of age: the Judges are re» tired now on reaching seventy. ‘A life sized portrait of him hangs in the Capitol at Albany. Mrs. Judge Cady was a tall, handsome, queenly woman, a daughter of Col. James Livingston, who distinguished himself under General Washington in the War of the Revolution. She was full of "go" and "vim", so that little Elizabeth inherited brains, beauty and fight from both sides. Sons one has thus described the town where she was born, .“Birthplace is secondary parentage and transmits charac- ter”. Johnstown was more famous half a century ago than since; for then, though small, it was a marked intellectual centre; and now,though large, it is an unmarked manufacturing town. Be~ fore the birth of Elizabeth Cady it was the vice ducal seat of Sir William Johnson, the famous English negotiator with the Indians. During her girlhood it see the arena for the intel~ lectual wrestlings of Kent, Thompkins, Spencer, Elisha Williams and Abraham Van Vectan, who as lawyers, were the chiefest of their time. And as a child she used to sit on her father's knee and listen to the conversation of these distinguished men. xxxx But Johnstcwn still retains one of its ancient splendors — a.glory still fresh as at the foundation of the world. Standing on its hills, one looks off upon a country of enameled meadow lands, that meg’: away southward toward the Mohawk, and northward to the base of those grand mountains ~ the Adirondacks, which are "God's monument over the grave of John Brown!" In my mother's book"§$%QIh_Y§3?S, 3? £93.": Eh? €aYS3 "Who can estimate the power of antinatal influences, or the child's surroundings in its earliest years, the effect of some passing word or sight on one, that makes no impression on another. One, yearning for broader freedom, is in a chronic condition of rebellion, the other, more easily satisfied quietly accepts the situation." Johnstown was a hilly little hamlet, its streets were bordered sith stately elms, the houses were built right on the sidewalks, after the Dutch custom, with little stoogs in front, while beautiful gardens and large piazzas were at the back and sides of the houses, Each house boasted of large garrets and cellars. Those in my grandmother‘s mansion were the favorite resorts of my mother's childhood. She says; "In the garret were barrels of hickory nuts, on a long shelf cakes of maple sugar, and all kinds of dried herbs and sweet flag; spinning wheels, a number of white cotton bags marked ggig, goings. Calico and Flannel, and filled with bundles, as well as chests containing ancient masculine and feminine attire, swords and to sabres of wartimes. Here we would crack the nuts, nibble the sharp edges of the maple sugar, chew some favorite herb, punch the bags, whirl the old spinning wheels, dress up in our ances- tors’ garments, and give dramatic entertainments; - for there eere three of us about of an age, - and take a bird's eye vies of the surrounding country, out of an enticing scuttle hole. This was forbidden ground but We frequently clinbed.up there.” One day the three little girls were all standing on /L‘ /7? 53544 7 the top rungs of the ladder with their heads at/the hole, when ‘ / one of them remarked, "By the Holy Pokers what ifﬁmother should of A come!“ Just then thébevlegs sere caught in a firm grasp and a voice said, 3By the Holy Pokers here I amt” The cellars of than ancient house were filled in winter with barrels of apples, cidar, pork, salt meats, etc., offering admirable nooks for playing hide and seek. Among the family servants were the colored men Peter and Jacob, the former tall and stately, the latter short and jolly, both played A on banjo and fiddle for the children to dance, and sere ever ready to join in games with them. The cellars were on a level with the large kitchens, of which there were two, and here the little girls and the colored brethren had royal games of hide end seek, and hlindman's buff all over those loser regions, tell Polly Bell and Cornelia Nickeloy their nurses, appeared on the scenes and put an end to their sport. Peter was the guardian angel of my mother and her younger sisters, his love for them was unbounded and fully re- turned.‘ "He was the only being visible or invisible of whom we children were not afraid", she says. He was delegated to escort them to school, take them in their walks agent the town, let them wade in the creek, or ramble in the woods, in fact do anything their hearts desired. Peter was very curdous by nature so he took them to places he sented to see, often arousing their curiosity by the tales he told them beforehand. The Court House, when trials were taking place was one of the favorite resorts of this quertette, largely due to Peter's desire to hear the leading lawyers argue end to know how e case was going. He often waited on these lawyers at Judge Cddy’s hoeeitable board, end 3. -. ' I? --’ 5 i 5?‘ L: ; ‘iy /2,Q:\_':‘ '4,‘ s e ,4 .':_,V,.., » 5 '3 M: "’ heard them talk in private, so he wanted to hear them telk in public. He carefully exhleined the merits and demerits of the suits to hie young cherges before entering, then with one on eech knee and the third standing beside him they would eit contentedly end listen. iThue my mother early learned how lee oases were conducted. The stone jail on the hill, Wee another place these four often vieited. The Sheriff and his family lived there, and the Judge'e little girls knew the Sheriff's daughters in echool, so were tehen by them all over the jail. They made the ac- queintenoe of the prisoners and the men told them Why they were there. On their next visit the children eould eerry them nute, aphlea and cakes. One of their nurses was Scotch, she had told thee many thrilling tales of castles, prisons and dun- geons in the ohd world, so that when they saw the large iron doors of the jail, the great keys, the handcuffs and chains, the prisoners in their cells, their visits seemed to thee like excursions to castles in those far—off lends. Being eehsitive by nature this all made a deep impres- eion on my mother, and she told me how it awakened her interest in prisone and prisoners end induced her in after years to try and bring about more humane conditions for these gggg§,Q§_;§g§ An event that eade a deep impression upon ey mother eee child was the birth of a sister. It was one cold day in Jenuery when her hrawny Scotch nurse took her in to eee the little stranger, she heard eo many friends remerk, "What e pity it is that it's a girl!" that she felt a kind of compassion for the little hehy. The family then consisted of five girls end only one boy, but, she eeye, ehe "didn't uneeretend then that girle were considered an inferior order of beings.” Thue were herﬁ first doubts ooneernine women eroueed. an!‘ to know what people look like that I am reading about, ed I wee glad to find that Elizabeth Cedy, "Wee e plump little girl with very fair skin, roey oheeke, good features, dark brown curly hair, laughing blue eyes and beauti- ful teethlx . In the olden days lawyers‘ offioee adjoined their houeee, and to the most eelebreted in eny toen young men were eent from all over the State and country to study law: for there were no law schools away back in 1815. My grandfather's office always contained anywhere from ten to fifteen etudente, many of them from the best familiee of the land. And as Elizee beth, from her earliest years, took a deep interest in matters of law, the epent a great deal of her time in her father's office, often sitting on hie knees as he talked to hie olinete, eepeeieL- ly if they were Women who hed come to complain to the tender‘ hearted Judge of the unjuet Way they were being treated by their husbands and eone, when, by their herd work, they had helped to hey off the mortgagee on their femre. A In thoee early days no married women in New York could own any property, neither pereonel nor real; the elothee on her veok belonged to her husband, be false teeth, even, were hie! The wages she earned over the weehtub at the end of a day, belonged to him. The Judge eae explaining all this to old Sarah, a Scotch woman, whose hueband hed died, and left the farm to their son, ~ when it had been given to Sarah by her own father - and I whose young wife wanted to turn her out of houee and home. Sarah always supplied the Judge's family with eggs, butter, A chickens and other good things, so that Elizabeth looked upon her as a kind of lady bountiful when she appeared at the week ends. The Judge got down many booke and reed the laws to the old women to ehoe her why he couhdn’t help her, but patting her on the beck he told her, that as long ae she lived he'd look after her and see that she had a good home and oomforte. The alert little girl had quietly marked all the laws, and turned down the pages of each book and put them back on the shelves upside down eo that she would know them, then she followed Sarah out and putting her arm ebout her said, "hover mind, don't cry, I have marked all those bed laws and when my father leaves his office this efternoon I'm going to cut them all out, and then your troubles will be over.“ As econ as Sarah could get rid of the ohild she hurried back to Judge Cedy's office and told gim how hie little girl was intending to mutillete his books. So after supper he took Elizabeth over to his office and thgif seated on his knee before the ereckling logs in the hearth, he told her how laws were made by the legieleture,et Albany, that his lihrery wee only one of many all over the Stete, thet if she wanted the.lews changed she'd have to go down to Albany when she grew up and talk to the legislators and get them to change them, then new booke would“be printed and the old ones laid aside. l Little did that Conservative Judge dream that whet no woman hed ever done, would.be done by that very daughter of his in the years to come; he unconsciously planted the seede of re- bellion in the fertile brain, and when she grew to womanhood, the mother of four eons and a daughter, ehe took two nureee end three ohildren with her, and leaving them at the Deleven Houee, went up to the Capitol and made her first epeeoh hefore a legis- lature on the unjhet lewe pertaining to women. Thet wee in 1854. . During my mother's childhood Judge and Mre. Cedy lost their only eon, a fine, manly fellow who had juet graduated from Union College, Soheneotedy, with high honore. It nearly broke the Judge's heert,_end he wee oonetdntly eeying to Elizébeth, when ehe tried to ooneole him, “Chg? if you were only a boy: If you were only a boy!" ‘ Throwing her erme about his neok she eaid, "I will try to he all my hrother wee!" ' Then and there ehe says she resolved not to give eo muoh time as heretofore to play, but to etudy Latin and Greek and 1eern to ride horeebaok. Theee reeolvee ehe oerried out end they were destined to mould her ohereoter for life. Next door to the Cedy mansion lived an old Scotch clergy- man, Rev. Simon Hoeaek, between whom and Elizabeth a great friend- ehip exieted. Whenever ehe wee in any trouble ehe elweye ren right over to him to he oomforted. She often went with him on hie daily drives, he taught her to handle the lines, ee the old horee trotted along. the Rev. gentlemen reading to her eeenwhile from eohe hook or teaching her ehout the birds and floeere by the weyeide. The early influenee thet thie fihe old men exerted over thie child of eleven leeted all her life. The morning efter her gggglggga as Dr. Heeeok wee work- ing in his garden heforerhreekfeet, ehe ruehed over to eek which he liked hetter hoye or girle. "Why girls, to he sure, I wouldn't give you for all the hoys in Christendom," he replied. "Well," she seid with a sigh, "My father prefers hoys, he keeps Wishing I was one, end I intend to be as neerly like one as poseihle. I em going to study Greek and Latin, will hon give me e leeeon now, Dootor? I went to start at once." A "Yes child," he said throwing down his hoe, "Come into my study and we will hegin without delay." He entered_fully into the feelings of suffering and eorrow that poeeeesed thet eensitive little girl, end putting into her hende the old grammar that he had used intthe Uniyereity of Glasgow the Greek article was mastered hefore hreekfest. My mother attended the Academy in her netive town, the boys and girls were all together in the same eleesee. She studied eeong other things Greek, Letin end the higher eethemetioe. In these eleeeee she was the only girl among a number of hoys, ,she ea; always running intellectual races with John Welle, to see who should stend et the heed. Sometimes it was John, sometimes iour.heroine. She oerried off many of the prizes, but ehen she ran into her fether‘e office, flushed with triumph, end leid these’ treesures in his lap and looked up into hie kindly fees for a word of praise, it was always, "If you had only been a boy, if you had only been a boy: After heering this for years, she wondered why her father and others didn't think e girl as goods as a boy. The iron sank deeply into her soul, and she then and there determined to see whet she could do to lift the terrible odium that seemed to he atteehed to all girls and women. *****=k***=i¢=k>i¢* GIRLH09Dl 10 I quote whet follows from my mother's eutibiogrephy. "From the Academy the boys of my olaee went to Union College, Soheneotedy. When thoee with whom I had etudied end contended for prizes for over five years came to bid me good'bye, and I learned of the barrier thet prevented me following in their footsteps - no oirleoedmittedyhege - my vexetion and mortifi- oetion knew no bounds. I remember now how proud and hendeome the boys looked in their new elothee ee they jumeed intoethe etege.ooeoh end drove off, end how lonely I wee.ehen they were gone; I felt more keenly then ever the humiliation of the die» tinotion of eex." There was not e college for girle in the world et thet , time - 1830. Oberlin College,in Ohio, was not opened till 1833, that inetitution edmitted boye, girls and colored peoele, ’end the etudente were obliged to do a good ehere of the work ‘to Albany the" about the huildinge. In femily council it was decided to eend Mother to the Emma Willard eohool, for ginle, at Troy, dew York. Thet insti- tetion wee the most celebrated one for e member of the feminine gender in the whole United Stetee at thet date. To ehow how primitive the timee were in my mother's youth, I'll quote the following from her book, "The one remark- ehle feature of my trip to Troy wee the reilroed from Seheneoeedy f The manner 03‘-‘ eeoending a hill eould now etrike engineers ee etupid to the lest degree. The peeeenger care were pulled up by a train loadp ed with etonee, deeoending the other eide of the hill! The more natural way of making a tunnel through the hill, or going eround it, had not dawned on our Dutch Ancestors!“ ll_ But when our heroine reeehed the Emme Willard School ehe roune that her etuciiee in the old. Aoeoerey at Johnetown carried her beyond the meet advenoed oleee et the Troy Seminary. There was nothing left for her to etudy byt mueio, French and dancing. She wee eo disgusted when she learned thie, end thought of her boy ohume et Union College, only a few miles eeey, going on end on into the higher reelme of etudy, thet ehe beret into teere of engeieh at the injoetiee of it. But heihg a good deel of e philoeopher, even in her youth, ehe pitohee into French and music with all her energy; ene erote home to her fether for money to teke denoing leeeone, they were extra from the reguw V13? tU.itiOIlo The Judge promgtly Wrote heck thet he wee ﬁerfeotly eilyieg to pay eh eeount to eﬁuoete her heed, hut would give her nothing to eduoete her heele: he Wee opeoeed to dancing. Elizabeth Ceﬂy, who never let any men get the hetter of her in ergument, eent off e letter poet heete, "Thehk you ﬂeet father, yqer epietle ehowe greet ignorenoe; dehoinéxin not done on the“ heele, but on the gggg, eo eend me the eeeh by return mail." Ame he did. Ae ehe grew oleer ehe eew that the oollegee euet he opened to girle; thet the property lewe must he ohehgee eo thet merrieﬁ women oould owe their homee end farms; thet they muet e eble to oell their own the eegee they eernee over the eeeh tube; that they meet he ehle to cell their own the ohileren for whom they had gone ﬂown into the Valley of the ehedoe of deeth to give birth. * In thoee eeye the fether could even will ewey the unborn ehildi You eee, women and girl reedere, we oehnot truet othere ll 3 to legislate for us; there are many good, honest, generous, hroadp minded men of course; but this farseeing young eomangreared midst wealth and luxury, saw that it would he better for her sex toﬁbe Well educatea and have a say in the making of the lawe that govern women and children. In those aays women and girls were always §ing.things ‘to educate young men for something, that these same eons of Aaam were not able to aooomelish by their own efforts. hother was the ,leader of a club in their church who had undertaken to reise funds toreducete a young man for the ministry. They eewed, baked, brewed and stewed things, had fairs, eooiableianﬁ what not to hay his way through the Auburn Theological Seminary. When he was reaﬁy to graduate they sent him money to buy a new suit of elect hroadcloth, a high hat aha cane. Then they Wrote and in- vited him to come and preach them a sermon in the large Presby- terian church in Johnstoen. The Whole town was there to hear him, for every one knew how hard this club of girls had worked to eﬁucate him’ the front pews were reserved for the girls. When the cheneeé-was full and the psychological eomer had arrived the club marched in and took their placee, headed by my mother, all dressed in spring attire, each girl on the tip toe of expectation to hear what thie youthful theologian woule say, whom host of them had educated over their heads. V I shall never forget hearing my eother relate this story to a large auaieuoe in Chieago when she was on one of her Lyceum lecturing trips in 1880. After dilating on how hard these girls had worked to raise the money to eduoate this specimen of the gehue homo, describing the scene in the ehurch that lovely spring morning, in her round, full, rich voice she asked that ~ % is vast assembly of men and women, “whet, my heerere, do you think he took for hie text? That peeeege of scripture which eeye, "I euffer not e women to epeek in the ehueeh." Peneing for a moment to let the people catch their hreeth, Mrs. Stanton remarked, “We never educated another!“ That veet eeeembly beret into " ehoute of laughter and eppleuee. Then ehe Went ontto relete how the girle, forming the elub, opened their mouthe and looked et one another for a moment, then all eroee, and with heede erect they memehed, two by two, down the long aisle and out through the door. They didn't stop to heer one word he had to eey. The ingretitude ehown in the eeleetion of his text, after all they had done for him, mede plain to them the type of man he wee. . ’The.t veet eudienee in Chicago ehouted Brevoi bravo! es ehe pictured hereelf and the girls marching out. S ; /xi? : ‘e .» % y K H ’7teeeeei seeeee, ieeéée%5 ti E‘; .“&§p§ddeK5@i‘ g,éf§§eh “see 5 e x WOMAEHOOD My mother epent much of her epere time in her father's @ office lietenting to the eliente etete their eeeee, arguing i\ with the etudente, end reading all the bed lewe pertaining to { 1} Women, thet the etudente delighted to put in her hende. E After the reetrainte of girlhood et home and in eehoel, 5\ ehe remerke, “What a period of irrepreeeehle joy and freedom E Q comes to us with the firet taste of liberty. Theae.1e our indivé ,3 duality, in a meeeure recognized, and our feelings and opinions ooneulted. xxx This ie the period, too, when we idealize every- ” thing in life; when our love and hope make the present an eoeteey and the future bright with anticipetion."’ Elizabeth Cedy at thie time, I heve heen told, wee e EETEBBORO “ philanthropist and antieelavery advocate. beautiful young woman, brilliant in conversation, eang and played well on piano and guitar, a graceful dancer, one whose eoeiety was always eoughtg she had no end of admirers, wee a fearleee horeeback rider, could leap any fence, or jump any ditch. But ehe had a serious eide to her nature as well; ehe was an omni- veroue reader of gooﬁ booke, wee always delving into eocial questions and trying to eolve knotty probleme. ‘She wee parti- cularly fond of arguing with men older than hereelf, ehe never went off halﬁecooked ‘and even ae a young Woman very few ever got the better of her in,a diecueeion. She kept her temper, was full of wit, there was always a merry twinkle in her eye, and she was bleeeed with a keen eenee of humor. All my grandmother’e daughters were well trained in houeeheld duties; and nothithetanding there were many servants in the house, they were obliged to epend a certain length of They were all fine time each day attending to these duties. housekeepers before they took their matrimonial flights. **********>I<***** At this period Elizabeth Cady was a constant vieitor at the palatial home of her eouein Gerrit Smith, the great She and his only ﬁaughter, Elizabeth, were devoted friends; my mother’e numerous vieite there were one of the meet potent influences in moulding her after life. There never was before, nor eince, juet euch a place as Peterboro, nor euch a host and hoeteee as Couein Gerrit and Couein Nancy: I wish I had plenty of time and space to tell you of this Wonaerful houeehold. Gerrit Smith's father had pur-t ohesed large treats of land from the Oneida tribe of Indians end every year members of the tribe paid him friehdly vieite. The slaves, too, had all heard of Gerrit Smith, the greet Aho- ﬁig , . ;,.,,,.e.~x°k’I~"”‘ .;,..,,.g,,., , litioniet, knew him as their friend, and that hie house weegot the etetienmwe <m.,._..,...l Weeds: and 9» safe route to Canada. In oonsequenee the greet barns and out—huildings were ,frequently used as chambers for “the bleokmen from the Southern plantation and the red men from his home in the foreet." “The houee was lerge and spacious and always full of choice society xxx here you met eoholere, philoeophere, philan- thropiete, judges, bishops, artists, mueioiené and statesmen xxx There never was such an atmosphere of peeoe, of freedom and good eheer." Q A There were times when anti-slavery was the all absorb- ing topic; through these portele etepped Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Gerrieon, Frederick Douglas and John Brown. Every poeeible phase of political and eooiel life came up for dieoueeion, and as these that did the talking were the leaders of thought of that day, you can readily judge of the influence all this had on the wide eeeke mind of Elizabeth Cedy. "Those roueing arguments‘ at heterboro made sooiel life eeem tame and profitleee elsewhere, and the youngest of us felt that oonolueione reached in that reohool of philosophy were not to be queetioned," my mother writes. It was at Peterboro that Elizabeth Cedy met Henry Brewster Stanton, a direct descendant of Elder Breweter, who oeme over in the Mayflower. He was then ooneidered, the most eloquent and impassioned oretor on the enti-slavery platform. Mr. Stanton had come to hold e series of conventions all over Madison County and made Gerrit Smith’e home hie head» 15 quarters. Miss Cady had a passion for oratory, and as Mr. Stanton was then in his prime, she see deeply impressed with his eposers. “He was a fine looking young man with a remarkable oonsersational talent: In the Conventions he ooula make his so- dienoes both laugh and cry at will; the latter Wendell Phillips said he never could do." Carriage loads of ladies and gentlemen drove off every morning to attend these meetings, not returning till late at, night. The enthusiasm of the people in these great gatherings, the thrilling oratory, were experiences never to be forgotten. My mother writes in her autobiography, "I heoame deeply interest- ed in Anti-slavery and temperance questions xxx I felt a new in— spiration in life, and was enthused with new ideas of individual .’ rights; for the Anti-slavery platform was the best school the, American people ever had in which to learn republican principles of government. As they oame out from hreakfast one morning, Mr; Stanton joined hiss Cady on the eiazza and suggested a horseback ride, as there was no convention that day. She readily agreed: the day see orisp and bright, the horses good and as they were re- ‘. turning home they stopped to admire abeautiful view, when suddenly, laying his hanﬁ on the pommel of her saddle, to her surprise, she says, "He made one of those charming revelations. of human feelings whioh brave knights have always gound eloquent words to utter, and to which fair ladies have always listened with mingled emotions of pleasure and astonishment.” V. =!t****=§=************ THEIR WEDDING 16 THEIR WEDDING The outcome of these glorious October days in JOURNEY Peterboro 1839, was a marriage ceremony in Johnetown, N. Y. may ll, 1840, henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cedy were the contracting parties. They etarteﬁ for New York City that day, and left for England on the Montreal, a sailing ‘' vessel, a few days later, to attend the World's Anti-Salvery Convention in Lonéon, to which Mr. Stenton had been eent ae a delegate. They hed a delightful trip which leeted three eeeke3 they landed in Torquay, and their journey next day; on the top of a stage coach took them through eome of the meet beautiful ecenery of England. Mother eaye; "The roads were perfect, the large, fine-looking coaohman with hie white glovee and reine, hie rosy face and lofty hearing, and the £i%§E man in red blowing hie long horn ae he rolled through the little villagee, made . the drive eeem like a journey in fairyland." Their lodging houee was the headquarters for many of the? most distinguished men and women delegates from Boston and Phila- ﬁelphia. There had.been a split in the Amerioan Anti—elavery ranks over the Egggg_ggeetion, and as the William Lloyd Garrison haanch maintained the right of the Women delegates to both epeak and vote at the Convention, my mother&e eympathiee were with the Qarrieoniane . "To me," Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes, “there was no question eo important ae the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, -‘hplitical, religious, eooial. It struck me ae very remarkable that abolitioniete, who felt eo keenly the eronge of the black elavee, ehould.he eo oblivioue to the equal wrongs of their own white eothere, wives and eietere." The question of admitting the women delegatee was hotly ﬁebated for an entire day; my father, Henry B. Stention, I am proud to eay made an eloquent epeech in favor of the women. 17 Every one in England had looked forward to hearing the far-famed William Lloyd Garrison speak, but he was so enraged at the whole performance thatyhe said, “I can take no part in a convention that etrikee down the meet sacred rights of all Women.” So he refused to go on the floor of the Convention at all, and eat in the gallery with_the rejected noaen delegateei The action of that Convention wee the topic of oonverea- tion on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, it etung women into thought and gave riee, eventually, to the movement for Woman’e Political Equality in England and the United States. My mother's aoquantainee with Lucretia hott, the Wonder- ful Quaker preacher, who was a liberal thinker in politics, reli~ gion and reform, onened a new world of thought to her. She nae one of the rejectef delegatee and Mrs. Stanton eat next her in the gallery. My mother was ahked on her return from Europe what she had eeen in the old world that interested her meet, her prompt reply was ”Lgoretia Mott!" hy father, among othere, was invited to epeak all over the British Ielee, of course mother accomnanied.him, and ae they were entertained in the homes of the nobility, and wealthy Qnakere in many of the cities, they had a rare opnortnnity for eee-y ing the home life of thoee daye, «They took time off from theee meetings to “do” the eighte in various p rte of Ireland, Scotland and England. They met many of the notable people of that day, Baniel O’Connell among them. He made his first appearance at the World'e Convention a few days after the Women delegates were re- T jected. He paid a beautiful tribute to Woman and eaid, if he had been preeent, he would have voted for their adnieeion. Mother eaid he was a tall, amgnifieent looking man with wonder- ful powers of eareaem and denunciation and added to this the 18 most tender pethoe, he could make hie hearers laught ehd ory at hie pleasure. He wee probehly the most effective speaker Ireland ever had. She wee dining with the "Greet Liheretor",_ as he Wee called, in Dublin, and eeked hie if he hoped to gain liberty for Ireland, "Kc," he eeid, "bet it ie elweye good policy to oleim the uttermoet, end then you'll get eoeething." Fether and mother ended their wedding journey by epend- ihg eix eeeke in Perie and eeeing iteaeighte. The eontreet be- tween the Englieh eehheth and that of Frenoe, ehe pute eo aptly, that I must quote it, "In Perie we found everything open, In London all pleoee of emueeeeht were eloeed, nothing open to the people but the churches end drinking eeloone.“ They eeiled from England on the Siriue of the Cunerd Q Line, the first re uler, htlemtie eteemehi . tire. Stenton re- merke, “We had grave doubts as to our safety and the prohebility of reeehing the other side. But efter a safe peeeege of eighteen days, eleven houre and fifteen minutee we landed at Boston, hem- ing epent eix houre in Halifax." They went to eee York City by gggg, but when they left for Johnetoen, they went up the valley of the Hudeou by eteeegeieigh, carrying the U. S. meil. It took them threewgeye to get to Albany, as they etdpped over 4 j: . ‘ 5 r+, E ?€i'ﬂi, night in verioue pleeee, new it tekee three hours} 2%e%§%wtteI£§fi%§ #*************** MOTHEBHOODi They remained in Johnetown, under the perentel roof, for two yeere: my fether etudied law in grendfether’e office, Mother hueied hereelf reeding lew, hietory end politioel eeonomy. %But in 1848 all her thoughte were turhee to the preotieel one of ghet to dgmyith e baby, She eeye “Though motherhood ie the moet importent of ell the profeeeione, - requiring more knowledge then 19 eny other depertment of human effeire, - yet there is not euffi- oient ettention given to the preparation for this office." In Septembergehe gave birth to her firet ehild, a fine hoy who Wee named after his grandfather, Deniel Cedy Stanton. The eoientific manner in whieh she brought up thet heby and train- ed ite nuree, would heve done credit to a 80th century mother! Sie eeye ehe had been thinking, reading and oheerving end hed ee little feith in the popular theories of those days ee regerde behiee, ee on any other euhject. One rey of light illumineted the derkneee, it Wee the book of Andrew Gomhe on gggggg. would thet I had epeee to tell you how she trained her nuree, her huehend, her parents, the doctore, even, ee to how her hehy wee to he treated, when moet of them were the perente of lerge families! But ehe carried the dey and her healthy, bounc- ing infent convinced them thet she muet be right, ae it never V cried, wee never ill, eiept a good ehere of the time, and eeing given elehty of water and nureed at regular intervele it never had the colic. She eeye all her reading at thie time centered on phyeiology, diet and hygiene, and thet she came to the cone clueion after much thought and observation, thet babies never oried un1eee eomething thet could be reeedied wee the matter. Hence ehe never heerd a child ery without feeling bound to find out the cause. » ,, § ’: '1 Eﬁhwmwwew. In her exteheie travels on her lecturing tripe, leter in life, ehe hed mehy experiences eith hthiee end ignorent perehte, end having hed eeveﬁ1eound heelthy ones of her own end reared them all, ehe felt ehe could epeek with euthority. A whole oer fell of people eee on tenterhooke one day from a crying 20 beby.rhother had just entered and taken her seet, when she heard its piteous wails, so she went forward and asked the weary mother if she would let her tske it. The beby readily Went to her end walking with it to the end of the oer, she took out her little pocket drinking glass, filled it with water end put it to the baby's lips. It eiized the tumbler end drained it to the bottom, seeing it eo thirsty Mother gave it some more, then laying . its little head on Mother's breast it was feet asleep before you could have said ”Jeok Robinson." So Mother etood and looked out of the door for some time, when she returned to the seet where its parents were, she said: “you see, hedeme, e11 your baby wanted was a drink of ester." "weteri" exclaimed the woman, "my baby has never had a drink of water in his life. I didn't know babies eented ester." "Don't you give water to your puppiee and kittens?" mother inquired. "Oh, yes", she eeid. "How old is your beey?" Mother asked. "A year," she enswered. "What have you been giving him to drink when he was thirsty", Mrs. Stanton futher pursued the inquiry, and to her horror the Women eeid, "Tee, coffee, milk, and when he erieﬁ very hard e. few drops of ehisliye or soothing syrup in the milk." So mother set down opposite these ignorant parents end gave them a simple telk on diet, digestion, hygiene, the importance above all things of giving ohildren plenty of pure eater to drink, from the day of their birth by the spoonfulfsix times a day at leeet, end plenty oﬁﬁreeh air day end night, and keeping their feces uncovered. All this time the baby lay on her lep end sweetly eleqg% while the people in the ear gathered around, some standing on the eeete to listen. Mother was so beautiful to look at, with her lovely ehite curls about her feoe, she had such a merry tqinkle in her eyes, suoh e sweet, persuasive voice, that BOSTGN end GEELSEA 4% , g‘:gr«:._> u‘%r~w 81 no one ever took offense at what ehe said to them. #******#***>i<***=€<* In the eutumnofbl843 father wee admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Boston, with Mr. geowlee, brotherwinmlew of General John A. Dix. Thie gave iﬁegeeenggt ngengthe opportunity of making eany nleeeant eoqueintenoee among the legal profession of the Hub, ee well ee meeting intimately, Anni meny of the men and women refermere of that day. There ehe saw for the firet time Lydia eerie Childe, Elizabeth Peabody, ‘ 3\«n;Inax-rvvamvanub-,nm<w: ;s..:a»o Q Theodore Eerker, Ralph Waldo Eeereon, John G. Whittier, Nathaniel Hewthorn, Bronson Alcott end eeng others. She was a3g§:z::::{ I vietor at the homee of Weniell Phillipe and William Lloyd Garrison. 2 While in Boeton she attended all the lectures, churoheei concerts, theetree, temperance, peace, prieonwrefprm and Anti» E V 5 elevery conventions that eeme Within her reeoh. She eeye: “ I § never lived in such an enthueieeticelly literary and reform letituﬁe E ; before; my mental powere were kept et the highest teneion. § t he i A_ 2 ;;.WM Thus was/bent of thie broedminded, tho ful, lite E F .. .« ée, gkxtgdgé, . r I‘ ere .Einolined young women made more firm, the founoetion etonee g g ‘i ‘M eere well laid in her youth, now she began to build the e¢$§éu9%e~ ii *2 M ‘ﬁketruotnre thereon. In 1843 Juﬁge Cedy moveﬁ to Albany for a few yeere to eeteblieh two of hie eone~in~lew in the legal profeeeioné eo that made the Gepitol of the State the rallying point for some Mother epent a part of eeverel winters et Albeny and ehe time. wee thue enebled to take an active part in the dieeueeion of the Married W0manT9i3r°p3r?¥i§§$$ then padding in the legielet£¢qk{Ll 320 E3 William H. Seward, govenor of the State from 183% to lE43 re- commended andﬁproved the bi11,and his wife, a woman of rare in? telligence, advocated it in Society. “Together,” Mrs. Stanton says, “we had the opportunity of talking with many members, both of the Senate and Assembly, in social circles, as well as in their committee rooms. Bills were pending from 1836 to 1848, when thei measure finally passed. V Governor and Mrs. Seward's friendship with my Mother lasted to the end of their days. Mrs. Stanton's second son was born in Albany in March, l844,"Undsr more favorable auspices than the first,“ she says, ” as I knew than what to do with a baby.” "Returning to Boston they began housekeeping in a house of their own in Chelsea. This afforded our heroine, anotherchapter of experiences. Grand- yfather had given her a very nice new house, beatifully furnished, commanding a fine view of Boston Bay. L "It is a proud moment in a womanis life to reign supreme within four walls. I studied up everything pertaining to housekeeping and enjoyed it. Even wash day - that so many people dread - had its chains for me. The clean clothes on the line and grass looked so white and smelled so sweet, that they were a pretty sight to me. As hr. Stanton did not come home to lunchg we made a picnic of our noon heal, all thoughts were turned to speed the washing. No unnecessary sweeping or dusting, no visiting on that day,~ it was held sacred to soap suds, blue bags and clothes lines. The children only had no deviation in the regularity of their lives. lee‘ *».3‘~.e 3:‘ They had their ,§geevs, naps and rations in quantity and in time. I had all the most approved Cook books, and spent half my time pre- serving, pickling and experimenting in new ideas. I felt the - 23 d same ambition to excel in all the departments of the Culinary A,,art that I did at school in the different branches of learning. My love sf order and cleanlinessdpas carried throughout&.£rom parlor to kitchen, from front door to back. oI tried, too, to . I V V givean artistic touch to everything - the dress of myself, children and servants included. My dining table was round,-always covered with a spotless white cloth, beautifnl in design, a centre piece I of flowers in their season, pretty dishes and clean silver, set with neatness and order. I put my whole soul, into n everything I did and enjoyed it.” On the upper piazza of her lovely home, commands ping an extensive view of Boston, the harbor and surrounding " country, she spent many happy hours, she says," enjoying the beautiful outlook, my husband, my children and my books. Here under the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument, my third son was born September 1845.’ Gerrit Smith and his wife visited them soon after and for him the boy was named. A dinner was given in their honor and among other friends to meet them came Charles gummer " I and John G. Whittier, the post. ##**##**######** THE FIRST"W0hAE‘S l The severity of the New England climate proved ;FRIGHTS” too vigorous for my father's health - he lived to GQNVENTIDH. be eightyuthree, however, and I always remember him as a very healthy individual 4 so all this delightful social‘. 4 life and his brilliant legal start had to be given up and in 24 the spring of 184? they moved to Seneca Falls, New York. They spent sixteen years of their married life in that little town and thenetheir remaining children were born, two sons and two daughters. Just as Mother was ready to leave Boston her sister Mrs. Eaton, her husband and two children arrived from Europe, as Mr. Eaton had to hurry on to New York on business, and my father had to remain in Boston to close up his affairs, the two ladies with five children, a nurse and seventeen trunks started for A Johnstown. They had failed to tell their parents the exact » time and date of their arrival, so took them by surprise when they appeared at midnight? In consequence the whole household was aroused to dispose of them, Mother calmly remarked in her book, “But now in safe harbor, ‘Mid familiar scenes our slumbers were indeed refreshing. How rapidly one throws off all care and anxe iety under the parental roof." W Grandfather gave Mother an old fashioned house in Seneca Falls, also a farm not far from thevillage. Her elder sister, Mrs. Bayard, had lived in that town several years before. And as Mother had visited her several times, she was already well acquainted with many people in the town and vicinity. So after a few days of rest in Johnstown, she started alone for her new home, quite happy with the responsibility of re- pairing a hgﬁtgazgfputting all things in order. p The house had been closed for several years, so needed much done to it, the grounds, comprising five acres, were overgrown with weeds. Grand» father gave her a goodly sized check at parting and said with a smile,” You believe in Womanis capacity to do and dare, now go ahead and put your place in order.” 35 She says; “lifter a minute survey of the premises and due consultation with several sons of §_g_a__:_g_y, .9 set carpenters, ~ painters, paperhangers and gardeners to work, builifafiine new kitchen, wood house and several porches: in one month I tooki possession." Her three little sons and their nurse were left at her Mother’s, so that she was able to give all her time to the work in hand and show the executive ability she posseesed.i In Seneca Falls my Mother found life comparatively solitary, as her house was on the edge of the village, and the change from Boston nae depressing. There all her immediate friends were reformers; and among the chiefest of that day. There she had a house with all the modern improvements, well —trained servants, near and delightful neighbors. Here the servants were inferior.__ She had an increasing number of. children and he::Zusbeady:¥::quently obliged to be away from home on business. She sums it all up so graphically in the following words, "To keep a house and grounds in order, purchase every article for daily use. Keep the wardrobes of half a doseh human beings in proper trim, take children to dentists, shoemakere, day and dancing schools, to find teachers for home study, alto- gether ma e sufficient work to keep one brain busy, as well as all the hoods-I could press into service. Then, too, the novelty of housekeeping had passed away, and much that was once attractive in domestic life was irksome. iI had so many cares that the company I needed for intellectual stimulus was a trial rather than a pleasure.“ A Before this her life had glided by with comparative case, but now the real struggle of existence was upon her. Her duties were too numerous,and ”none,“she says,"sufficiently ex- 36 hilarating to bring interplay my higher faculties, hence I suf- fered from mental hunger. I now fully understood the practical difficulties most women had to contend with in the isolated house- hold, and the impossibility of womanis best development if in contact the chief part of her life; with servants and children.” Near her house was an Irish settlement from which came constant complaintsthat her boys were throwing stones at their pigs, cons End roofs. This involved diplomatic relations b it £ If a?‘;:§:‘_ 5 §.~rv.; \«~- 4 my .~ s s ““ the ssh‘ of affairs, Mrs. Stanton was so successful that she soon became an umpire for all the troubles of the neighborhood. She loaned the men and women papersand books, invited the children into her grounds gave them fruit, toys and picture books. If a man came home drunk and was pounding his wife and children she was sent for at once.‘ Hurrying to the scene she would take Pat by the collar, seat him in a chair, talk to him and make him promise to behave, and he did. She ministered to the women in the pangs of maternity, taught them how to care for themselves and their babies, with her box of homoeopathic medicines she went among them when they were ill; she was looked upon by all as theéguardian angel. “Alas: alas! who can measure the mountains of sorrow and suffering," she says, ” endured in unwelcome motherhood in the abodes of poverty, where terror stricken women and children are thel victims of strong men frenzied with passion and intoxicating drink?“ Emerson says, g healty discontent is the fir3t-Bt¢* in ro sees, nrs. Stanton says, “The general discontent 1 felt with womanis portion as wife, mother, housekeeper, physician and spiritual guide, the wearied; anxious look of the majority of women n impressed me with a strong feeling that some active measures should be taken to remedy the wrongs of society in general, and women in particular; My experience at the World‘s Antiuslavery convention in Londcn, all I had read of the legal status of woman, and the oppression I saw everywhere, ssept across my soul intensified now by my many personal experiences. It seemed as if all the elemental had conspired to impel me to some onward step. I could not see what to do, or where to begin,~ my only thought waste public pro—_ ,test and discussion.” In this perturbed state of mind she received an in- vvitation to go up to Waterloo, the next town, and spend the day at the Hunts, to see Lucretia Mott, who was there on a visit. They had invited quite a party of their quaker friends to meet Mrs. Mott and'Mrs. Stanton, all earnest, thoughtful, married women. my Mother was so full of her spirit of discontent, and she poured it out with such vehemence and eloquence, that she stirred herself and all her hearers, she says, ” to do and dare anythingi”‘ They then and there decided to hold a ”Woman‘s Rights Convention.” They wrote the gg;;_that afternoon and had it print-, ed the next day in the Seneca County Courier, July 14, 1848. The. Call was given without signatures, it was merely an announcement of the meetings for July 19, 20. lThe chief movers were Lucretia Mott of Philadelphia, Elizabeth Cady Stanton of Seneca Falls, Mary Ann Mcclintock and Jane Hunt of Waterloo, and Martha 0. Wright of Auborn. The last mentioned person was the sister of Mrs. Mott and the grandmother of Thomas Mott Osborne, the present Warden of Sing Sing prison whou,you see comes naturally by his reform proclivities. All the women were happily married persons, with good husbands and families of children. 28 The convention was held in the Weéﬂleyan Church, Seneca Falls. It was a great success, the pla s has crowded,both men and women spoke. James Mott, Lucretiais husband, presided, a relisious earnestness di 1 :if££$§ﬁ;%€ﬁhe_ rsceesiass- My Mother sayst“ These were the hasty, iniative steps of the most momentous reform that has yet been launched in this sorld,- the first organized protest against the injustice shichhas brooded for ages over the character and destiny of one ‘gal; 3*.‘ 12-V half th§:;§;e.” W My Mother fails to relate in her Autobiography one incident that I think most significant ~ and which I have heard her relate many times. It shows how far ahead she was of her times, and how she saw into the future. she asked Frederick Donglas what it was that he saw that his people the black slaves ~ needed to put them on the right plane, ” Why the ballot,” he promptly replied. "And I see that that is exactly what we women need,” said Mrs. Stanton. <4? 5 _ Then she explained to him that sheﬂinipaéoi-to draw7K_e tap a resolution to that effect, which she would read, and that she wanted him to instantly jump to his feet and speak for her re~ solution, then she would do likewise. She told him that in the econferenoes before the Convention when she had said that Mssballot in the hands of'w men was the Key note to the situation) Mrs. Mott had exphainad,"Oh, Lizzie,if thee makes that demand thee will make us ridiculous. We must go slowly.” And my father who usnally stood firmly by her in all she did and said, and also spoke and worked for the Cause of woman was so amazed at her daring, when 29 when she confided to him what she intended doing, and was so disgusted whenshe would not follow his advice ~ that he left town and would not attend the convention!‘ But she felt she was right, and Douglas agreed with her and said he would help her out. Then, too, she remembered the advice Daniel Olconnell had given her years before “Claim the uttermost, then you'll get something.” Of course the rest were furious at her for springing her resolution on the convention, it created not debate but the brilliant defense of her position made by Douglas, and her own eloquence and logic carried the day. So that Mrs. Stanton's de- mand from the first was those three little words Votes for Women! Taking the Declaration of ngghte and Resolyutigns of those earnest men and women as their text, “it seemed as if every man who could wield a pen in 1848 prepared a homily on Qgggjswgghere." And the Sghere of Woman is still one of man's favorite topics in 1915! The ball was set rolling and has been in motion ever since, sixty-seven years! They were denouncsd_ by the entire press of the Nation. _ The same year of the Convention - 1848, the Married Womanis Property Bill, which had given rise to much discussion In? s s in New York, had passed the legislative and become arias. Mrs. Stanton and several other women had spoken before committees of the legislative, years before, demanding eqnal property rights for women. this bill was before the legislature from Governor Seward, you‘ll remember, recommended it. petitions for .it had been circulated for many years by women; and many men, lead- ers of the Dutch Aristocracy, also circulated petitions. These 30 long headed men wished their life-long accumulations to pass into the careful hands of their daughters and grandechildren, rather than into those of their dissipated sons~in-law. The bill had been ably prepared and championed by some of New York State’s best Judges, at different times, and the men were grateful for all the help the women gave them. Hence the demands of those in that first convention were not entirely new to the reading and thinking prople of New York,~ the first state to take any action in the laws concerning the property of married women. Mrs. Stanton remarks,”As New W York was the first state to put the word_gg;g_intc the Constitution in 1778, it was fitting that she should be the first in more liberal legislation for women." The effect of the convention on my Mother was most beneficial, its discussions had4g;gared her mind as to the} rise; stage to be taken for the enfranchisement of women, it gave her the opportunity to express herself freely on the subject that had lain nearest her heart all her life: she was then thirty-three years old. She was invited to speak in many nearby places, these new duties and interests gave her a broader out-look on life, her”petty domestic annoyances gradually took a subordinate place.” She wrote articles fcrthe press, sent letters to conventions, and friends trying to awake them to action. The ministers of Seneca Falls preached sermons on Womanis Sphere, the ladies took notes and answered them in the town paper. The women in order to answer these attackes, were obliged to study canon and civil laws, con? ID AMELIA WILLARD. SUSAﬁ B. ANTHONY. ‘womanis Declaration of Independence." stitutions and bibles, philosophy, history, sacred and profane, "Now," my Mother says, “ my mind, as well as my hands, was fully occupied, and instead of mourning over what I had lost on leaving Boston, I tried to make the most of the life in Seneca Falls.” -*~'1.=:%***'*******iI** Just at this time there came into our household an individual to whommymother pays a high tribute in her Autobiography, of her little Quakerfriend, Amelia Willard, she says,” While living in Seneca Falls, one of the best gifts of the gods came to me in the form of a good faithful housekeeper. She was indeed a treasure, a friend and comforter, a second mother to my children, and understood all life's duties and gladly bore its burdens. She could fil1€:;zdepartment in domestic life, and for nearly forty years was the joy of our household. But for this noble, self-sacrificing woman, much of my public work would have_ been quite impossible." ##******a***##*##$ — ‘ 4; Our home in Seneca Falls soon became the Mecca of many of the distinguished men and women of that day; the reports of the convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, attracted the attention of one destined to take an im~ portant part in the new movement ~ Susan B. Anthony. She was teaching schoo at Canajoharrie, a little village in the Valley L a/“..¢yyo.JL of the t-hawk, she had been both §g§aed,and startled by “The On going home to Rochester‘ for her vacation, she found that her Quaker parents had attended the meeting held in that City when Mrs. Stanton spoke, and found her demands quite groper and reasonable. Miss Anthony was already 5 interested in anti~s1avery, and temperance and had spoken at meetw 32 ings; but the new gospel of Woman?si§;gg3g& as it was called Wyears, found a ﬁr response in her mind. /3 ’§reat women did not meet till 1851, almost from the day of their meeting, till the hour of my mother‘s deatn,~ a period of over half a century ’2%§Z}e was never a break in their friendship.3i§$:€ab1y oné of the most beautiful and intimate friendships ever existing between two women. Miss Anthony came to Seneca Falls to attend an entiwslevery Vmeeting gotten up by my father and William Lloyd Garrison. She was walking with Mrs. Amelia Bloomer and they met Mrs. Stanton and Mr. Garrison on a street corner. Miss Anthony often visited my mother after that to talk over the situation, and she incidentally assisted her in the " management of her fast growing family, for it was in Seneca Falls that We four youngest children firstsaw the light. We called her “Susan”, and ran to her with our tears and troubles, if we couldnit find our mother. Mrs. Stanton never knew what mischief. she would find had been done during her absence on errands in the village. «Her second son, Henry; then nine years old was quite an inventor and on one occasion as she was walking home by the river road, ehe was greeted with shouts from a boat full of boys on the water, “Oh! Mother, it works, it Works perfectly!" i “What works?“ she called outgi "My life preserver,“ the boy answered. And to her horror there was her fourth son, then a little over a year old, with the life preserver under his arms, splashing around in the river as blue as indigo: the baby, accustomed to a cold bath every morning in a large tub seemed to be enjoying it also, in spite of his color. K 1 $7 I 1 I ". 33 The youthful inventor was firmly shown the error of his ways in the privacy of his room, and forbidden ever again to take the baby outside the grounds. Shortly after the foregoing perform— ence Mother was returning from church with a friend, when suddenly he ssid,“Look up on the chimney, Mrs. Stantoni” And thanjshe beheld the same baby seated in the chimney topy withthe inventor standing beside him. She quietly slip ped up-steirs,out on the roof and rescued her fourth son Theodore,¥ who is a journalist, and lives in Paris, France, and is now serving every afternoon as an Orderly in the Anerioan Hospital during this awful war. Qn remonstreting with Henry over this breax-neck performance, he doe fended his action thus,"Mother, you told me not to take the baby out of our grounds,noe that chimney is in our yard.“ On another occasion the three older boys locked Theodore in the smoke house. He roared so lustily thet Mother heard him_ and let him out, then she spanked the other boys and shut them up in the garret, and taking her abused boy in her lap? was trying to console him hy telling what she had done with his naughty brothers, loosed them up so tight that they ooulenit get at him till she chose to let them out. _The child just then exclaimed, “Why, mother, then they all go running eoroﬁﬁy the lewnt“ They had reached out the window, caught hold the lightening rod, swung themselves around the corner of the large chimney and gone down the rod hand over hand. The youngest of them, Gerrit, had slid down and taken all the skin or: tne§ inside of his hsneg, and was sobbing bitterly to himself., So he had to be tr§%%§% with first aid to the injured. tlt was in the midst of such exhilarating scenes that Miss Anthony and I,“ my mother remarks, "wrote addresses for temperance, 34 anti-slevery, women*s rights and educational conventions..... We made it a matter of conscience to accept every invitation to speak on every question, in order to maintain Womenls Right to do so.... To this end we took turns on the domestic watch towers directing iamusements, settling disputes, protecting the week against the strong, trying to secure equal rights to all in the home as well J’ as in the nation.“ gr . .. «$7; 4-, L ' § Sag xi :4 Mother said whenever she saw thet stately Qisierégirl coming across her law, with her little black beg, she knew it was stnffed full of facts as to what this or that Reverend gentleman had said, or the statistics of women robbed of their nroperty, or shut out frgg some college, or the reports of some disgraceful triel,~“>r i enough to turn any womenls thoughts from stockings and péddings 3 " A Then these two would get out their pens and paper and write articles for the press in different parts of the Country, or petition the legislature, Write letters to their anti-slavery friends to remember the white women as well as the black slave. They never met without forging some kind of a thunder-bolt and sending it forth. 0f their relationship my mother seys,“In thought and sympathy we were one, and in the division of labor we exactly com- plemented each other. In writing we did setter work together than either could alone. While Miss Anthony is slow and analytical in comw position, I an rapid and synthetic. I am the better writer, she the better critic... Together we have made arguments that have stood un- shaken through the storms of long years, ergments that have never been answered.“ ahoeeer Therefnesv+<* one feeling of jealousy between thesithey ‘t indulged freely in criticism of one another when in private, each 35 hotly defending their opinions, but there was never a break of even an hour, mother says, in their friendship. Like a true husband and wife they had the feeling that they must have no differences oft opinion in public. Thus united at an early day these two unusual women began to survey the state and nation as the future field of their labors. They read critically the proceedings of Uongress, or Uonrerences and general assemblies, and found that in all aiine, the existence of women was ignored. night after night oerore an old-fashioned tire place these two plotted and planned the coming agitation. Soon the state was aflame with disturbances at temperance and teachers‘ con- ventions, and the newspapers heralded the news that women delegates had appeared and demanded admission; their rights were valiantly lfought for by the liberal men on one side and the clergymen and4é;4W*£9{;- professors on the other. They were rejected with terrible anathemaS.s The battles were fought in the chief cities all over the country, till the bigotry of man was Well exposed. "Every right achieved to enter a college, to study a profession, to labor in a new industry, or to advocate a reform measure was contended for inch by inch.‘ l The Women ofto~day will never know what to ﬁe early piou neers suffered and endured to give them all the advantages theye accept new as a matter of course. ‘ \\ Just at this time, Ocotber 18523 I appeared on the scenes; There sere four boys and mother being very fond of children, longed for a girl. She was an unusually strong, healthy individual . She didn‘t know what nerves out of tune were, and when she found herself again in an interesting condition, she determined to see if a per-« fectly normal woman oouldnlt have a baby without one pain or ache. 36 Her physician at this time, was a progressive, young homeopathist. They discussed the subject in all its bearings, and laid down laws for her to live by as retards dressy diet etc.. . , ooe__w,e'% /Ag%;;L%Qw£;&s¢u¢fQ+ou£%§»4ué79;7ewv“w4 Q She wore the much talked of glgggggmggggg at this times and/“2 - m _-e so was free from the turmoil ofnettiooe;sE)\She often spoke of how easy it was to go up stairs with a baby on one arm and a candle in ethe other hands and have no skirts to hold up. She lived out doors with her children, drove out daily, sangandglayed on pisno and guitar, read elevating books, and kept herself in as happy and sunny a state as possible{ At last the day of the great event Verrived. She called her housekeeper and told her to send for the ‘ dootor and nurse. But as neither got there, and she was well versed in whet had to be done on such an ocoasion,~ having taken a course in obstetrics, and assisted at several cases of childvbirthiw she did it all herself? She said I appeared with just one exertion. She tied the naval cord, out it, and delivered herself of her after- birth, putting it in e bowl or water, so that the doctor, when he oame, should see that it was all there. She sashed the faces eyes and mouth of her twelve pound daughter, rubbed her all over with oil and wrapped her in a clean cloth and laid her down to sleep. A baby is tired when it is born and should not be annoyed with the process of washing and dressing at once. Then Mrs. Stanton got up, bathed and dressed herself and went down to breakfast with her little boysi Father had been called away on business, so was not on hsnd for the great event. hy advent had taken place at 6 o'olook. she had sung to her sons the night before, accompanying herself on the guitar, and iblﬁ//éagw? told them, es she helpedAthem to bed,ihat probably a little stranger would be in their midst by the next day, that if it were a little 37 sister, they'd have to kneel and kiss her big toe every morning, but. if it were enother brother they need not do so. After breakfast she hung a white flag out of her window as a sign to some friends living on the other bank of the river. that it was a deughter. Had it been another boy the fleg was to have been red? iBy nine o’clock the lsdies appeared on the scenes. They were all listening intently to her recital of the transaction when in walked the doctor. He looked hurriedly around to see if mother were among them; then hearing a cry from the next room, with a puzzled look on his face he hurried in, examined me very carefully, then returned and looking at this bevy of femininity, inquired, "Which of you ladies is the mother of that fine girl?“ He was delighted at the result of their combined efforts, he gave my mother a careful examination to see that all was right, and said the baby was as perfect a child as he ever saw. Mother was never in bed an lextra hour either before or sfter my birtht Before eleven o‘c1ook she had written several letters announcing the arrival of her first daughter. She had dinner nxhhher boys, took a nap, and in the glorious October sunshine walked out to en arbor in the yard and gathered some grapes. The next day she drove three miles to Waterloo‘ to call on a friend and bring her down to see her daughter. This lady was a Quaker and a Spiritualist and when she heard the wonderful tslei she laid her hand on mother*s arm and asked tremhlingly? Lizzie, is thee in the flesh, or is this thy Spirit?“ Being assured that she was yin the flesh she beggedfher to hurry and get on her wraps and go down with her to see her lovely little daughter, as she must go back to nurse her. My mother always attributed a great deal of her perfect health to her wonderful powers of sleep, which she inherited from 38 her father. When Judge Csdy_hsd an important lsw suit to try, he‘d say to his sifeg" Now, I have ten minutes to spare, my door, before starting for Court. I*ll lie down and sleep here on the sofa, end when the time is up, sake me.” So heid assume the horizontal; right in the midst of things, throw a handkerchief over his eyes to keep the light out, and almost instantly was off in he lend of nod. When he was awakened ten minutes later, he srose as fresh es a newly blown daisy. If ever my mother were worried about anything, as s icnild even, she would go to her room, lie down anu tshe a nap. She didn’t know what nerves were. She wouloﬂsit down in the midst of her children in their play room and nééh-s fine speech;'nas sble to so concentrate her mind on her work that their noisy play neter disturbed her. She said she was like a clock that had to be wound up ehen the machinery ran down. Suioenly she would be so overcome with sleep thst she couldn‘t keep her eyes pen for snother minuts. So she*d lie down on the couch and say," how, children, you son take my shoes and stockings offend put them on again, do anything you like with me, as long as you don’t quarrel. I shall sleep right on, the feeling of your little hands is very soothing, but the minute you begin to squabble, youiil wake me right up.“ so this wonderful women could work by the hour and tske her naps even in the midst of her children, hence, why she was able to accomplish so much literary work while raising a large family of boys and girls,- for there were seven of us! A A strong, healthy mother is one of the finest works of the Creator, and when she adds brains, education, executive ability and accomplishes great things both inside and outside her house; she is to me e wonder! When I was about ten years old we moved to New York city, and when I was sixteen I came. back to Seneca Falls end made a long visit at the home of one of mother‘s dearest friends. There I heard ‘ come each week and give the lessons; ene established a gymnasium for the of end learned to appreciate ell that mother did in the years spent in that little town. Whet a wonderful housekeeper she was, every» thing inside end out of house in perfect order,~ she could peint,peper§ cook, sew, fill any niche suddenly left vecent. At night she told us children the most wonderful stories, played games with us, sang and nleyed for us, and helped put us to bed. She had a large bump of order, an artistic eye, was always well dressed herself, hed e way of bugging on her glgtheg_thet was individ- ual: the clothes of each child were laid cerefully on a chair to sir every night. She leid a clean suit of washable blue or brown materiel on eeoh boy*s oheir, with clean, sell darned stocking on the rounds of the chair, and the shoes, freshly blocked, stood side by side underneath. 1 She was the prime mover in e dancing school for the children end young people of the town, had one of the best teachers of the state ,5 .n.u«...~.x-..,.\.v.u:u-r.«--.o.~...........n....«—.......—’’ new youths or the village. I can remember various kinds of swings that we had in our yard under the trees, bars between trees, and all sorts of apperetus up in the barn for rainy days. They had e billiard table for the older boys, where they could bring their friends to pley, inn 5 steed of going to some undesirable plece on the village to learn the 3 A E% gems. We were all teught checkers, chessg end every kind of e oerd geme,g 5 my mother was s fine ohess player herself. She and fether were ever § reedy to join us in all our amusements. They were both wonderful story tellers, and never seemed to tire telling us teles before we went to 40 .hed. Our parents did ell they could to make our childhood heppy; mother wee very clever in inventing weye to get around eome diffi- culty. The eervant-question was rampant in thoee deye ee nowﬁ end ee ehe entertained dietinguiehcd people frequently and didnt went her older hoye at table and deeired her meele well eerved; ehe hed her eone ell trained to wait on teble. They hed white euite} were peid for their services; and took great pride in doing it to the beet of their ebility. At onetime she was much troubled et the way her young eone were swearing, and teking council with eweet little Lucretia Mott? who was her gueet juet then, ee well as Miee A Anthony, Mre. Mott euggeeted they all swear at the teole and ece if they couldn‘t eheme them out of it. So when they gathered around the board, Mre. Mott in her trim white kerchief and cap, eeidi “ﬁre. ﬁtenton, May I give you eome of thie damn chicken?” The boys .looked up amazed, but ee neither mother, Susan nor Mrs. eott cracked a emile, and es the oath: flew quick and feet, the children eoon en- joyed the fun, and ell joined in. Thie was kept up for three meele,‘ but on the fourth eome distinguished gueete were preeent who had been let into the eecret — etill the oethe of the three noteblo lediee flew about the teble.t The boys were dietreeeed, as they eerved the gueete and noticed the looks of horror on their feceeg end when they got their mother alone, they gathered ebout her and eeid with tears in their eyes," Mother, whet will Governor Seeerd and Wendell Phillipe think of your eweering like that?" “Well,” ehe eeid,”you boye ell eweer, end so I thought I would too. Don't you like to hear he?“ W "No, mother,“ they all responded in chorus, with tears in their voicee. 41 “Very Well," she said, with an arm sbout each son, as he ilesned against her shoulder, while the third set on a little stool, with his head in her lap,”if you will all stop, I will also.” And they did. First speech In l854 mother prepared her first speech to be before the - A i Legislature. given before the legislsture of New York State. I have often heard her tell of that experience. She had spoken before anti-slavery, temperance and women suffrage conventions,‘but never before such an august assemblage as the Legislature of her native Stste. On her way to Albany she stopped over at Johnstown with. her youngest children and nurse, to have a short visit with her parents, but they did not know the object of her trip. She had spent a long time preparing her speech and when it was finished read it aloud to her husband and he pronounced it excellent; so that she felt quite contented in her mind. As she sat reading late one sfternoon her father came in and laying the glbsny Evening Journal in her lap he pointed to an item in the paper and asked her if it was true. It read something like this} "Mrs. Elizabeth Csd Stanton, daughter of the distinguished jurist, Judge Daniel Csdyé will address the Legislature at nlbsny," giving the day and date. "Yes, it is true," she replied in a calm tone of voice, while internally she was in s turmoil. "Have you ever spoken before such an assemblage of men?“ the Judge asked. “No,” she answered. “Then how do you krnw you can?" he said. 42 "I have prepared my speech, committed it to memory and it has been pronounced good, and I have been rehearsing it every day up in the garret since I came hereg“ replied the young woman. “Well, after tea this evening, I want you to come ever to my office and read it to me," he said as he walked out of the room. Mother eaid she never dreaded anything more in her life, an audience of one, and that one of all others whose approbation ‘she most desired, and who condemned the whole movement and wee deeply grieved at the active part she took in it. I However, she appeared at the hour named, and the , before the same large fireplace, where she had sat on his knee as a child and he had told her how laws were made, and how to get them changed, with all the determination she poeeeesed, she set out to Win over her unsympathetic audience. She had a wonderfully sweet, persuasive voice and threw all the pathos she could into it. She had arranged her speech under three heads, the i”?? laws as they affected ieomen in irlhood. as wivesr as widowe. Her word pictures were ac I I forceful, clear and pathetic that glancing up, she saw the teare filling her fatheris eyes. "I cannot express the exaltaticn I felt,“ she saysg"thinking that now he would see with my eyes, the injuetice women euffered under the laws he understood so well." Feeling that she had touched hie heart, ehe went on with new confidence and when she finiehed ehe saw that she had thoroughly magnetized him. “With beating heart," she writes, "I waited for him to break the silence. He was evidently deeply pondering over all he had heard, and did not speak for some time. I believedy I had opened to him a new world of thought." ‘He had listened, to the_complaints of women for years in that very room, but from the lips of his own daughter 43 they came with a new meaning. Turning to her at last, he eaid, “Surely you have had a happy,comfortable life, with all your Wante g E § 2% up, who has had no bitter personal experiences; feel so keenly the § wronge of her eex?* Where did you learn this leeeon?“ "I learned it here,” ehe replied,”in your office, as a child; listening to , ., .45. I eh ‘in the complaints women made to you. They who have sympathy and imag~§ ination to make the eorroee of othere their own, can readily learn 1 all the hard leeeone of life from the experience of othere.” '2 He told her ehe had maie her pointe clear and etronge but 3% that he could find her more cruel laws than ehe had quoted. Be A euggeeted improvemente here and there. It was after one oiclock in the morning before they kieeed each other good~night. She eaye,~ .“How he felt on the question, Iedo not know, as he nevergeaid anything in favor of or against it.” He always gladly gave her all the help he could looking up laws and was deeiroue that all she gave in public ehould be well-prepared. She went to Albany the next day and made a greet_eucceee of her epeech. The Aeeemhly room was filled to over~flowing, all the elite of Albany were there, as both ehe and her family were well known in the Bapital. There nae great curiosity felt, as most of the people had never heard a woman speak in public. Judge Page jo1ned her after the hearing was over and patting her on the back, eaid3“That wee a fine epeech, you did your father credit. Didnlt he have a finger in that pie?" And when ehe told him yeeﬁ he eaidy "I thought I recognized hie touch here andthere. You tell him that I eay, he ehould be proud of having euch a daughter!“
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1898-02-17
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Date: 1897-03
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1897-03
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1850-04-30
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1888-03-30
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1890-03-14
Text: Mg//Z // 4; 29/7 /f4, J Alma Lutz Collection C O P Y 26 West élet A Nel. Merch 1% /geew William Hayes Ward Dear Sir, I enclose a leaflet publieheo eome yeere ego which contains my mature opinions on the poeition of women under the cenon end civil law. One cannot epeeh of the Bible as e whole beceuee ite general principles, its eltruietio teachings, some of the grand examples of come women, the account of the eimulteneoue creation of men & women, with equal dominion over everything on the...
Show moreMg//Z // 4; 29/7 /f4, J Alma Lutz Collection C O P Y 26 West élet A Nel. Merch 1% /geew William Hayes Ward Dear Sir, I enclose a leaflet publieheo eome yeere ego which contains my mature opinions on the poeition of women under the cenon end civil law. One cannot epeeh of the Bible as e whole beceuee ite general principles, its eltruietio teachings, some of the grand examples of come women, the account of the eimulteneoue creation of men & women, with equal dominion over everything on the eerth, are all so many helps to freedom. The doctrine of the fell, women enﬁ afterthought, the origin of sin, marriage for her a condition of bcnﬁage, maternity a curse, Peul‘e teachings, ec, eltogether eo many adverse influences that one cannot accept nor reject the Old & New Testament as e whole. The sentence you quote ie not mine, though it might readily be inferred by e careleee reader from the enclosed pamphlet, I think if you heve time to reed enclosed leaflet you will see as I do the days degradation of women by the church under all forms of religion, with kina regerde Sincerely yours, Elieebeth Cody Stanton Le ISWW/F gwhe leaflet enclosed was "The Christian Church and Women” republished from the Index, Boston, Written on the book ie the following in Mrs, 8tectcn‘e handwriting: "Why not publish this in the Inﬂependeet with your criticieme if you disagree et any pointﬁgg we
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1870-11-12
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1897-06
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: n.d.
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1886-08-05
Text: 7 ., /7 /’ /// ,>"'[ é /,1‘ if ///(V /( ,4 , , , /. 1/I, / / ////If / ,.«-‘(H/’/V L / Original in Alma Intz ﬂnllenticn «'33.. wenafiyy New Jeraay Auﬁuat 5% l886 Bear ﬂirt I think you Qauld get a phatmmraph cf my father at ‘Mfg Reesher‘g in Albany. He has 3 photegraph gallery, & hag remently taken same from the full length nratrait ﬁhat hanga in the court room at the Ganitmlu Vaura ragp Elizabeth ﬂady ﬁtanton

Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1851-07-02
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Show more/ , ,/,///4,, /” /V2 j /f/%z I 74; . / /// z /.. i‘ X I’ //7 l I) 2/ « /~ / / , / //1 Ir _.... // ¢/T 9 W37 £7 %v % M1 _ % ;/ﬂw/Z:/(2 , _ _ Q, /::7%‘ ‘ , ,%/ I1». p L L J %n% gig. ‘ % ‘ 4»? am» %{Q %%&%V,L // /V /4,“ ’ , /M“ 4, ﬂy ¥ j //34/“Z /Mg 4’/*7/—— X ; J’ & M r , %A4:/ 1 iw,/3,, / ,,///:%/4/ ;, /z%,M,. ‘ /%w / Z1‘ ' , %ZW,‘/é £72,, //,//%i, /42 %~.- /<//Z// X 4 // j Z¢—zn/7// é/7”’Z'~—<C«z/1//}*’” _/ T"" 7”" I ,,/&Z/“V2 / iGrassmere July 2nd y(Seneca Fallsl85l) Dear Julius You Will have read the Lily before you get this & seen your claims set up for the glory of having been the first American woman to Wear the shorts as a constant dress. The article signed J.V.N. is your beloved Mr. Johnson, but do not mention it or Jackson _& Miss Gilbert would tear my eyes out. “Our daughter” you see is getting topheayy. She tells three lies this month. She says she was next to you to wear the dress. I wore it several weeks before she did. She says she does not wear a bodice I have never seen her without one, & a very long one too. She says I write over my own signature as much- as to say that I donot write any of the editorials. In this very number are six editorials written by me. The whole column share your name is mentioned is mine, then “The Detroit Tribune", about the Lowell girls & the man in pettiooats.y Which one of us is responsible for this lack of moral senmiment in child? =A.man was sent here from J Boston to get a daguereotype of Mrs. B. for the “Beaten museum“ 3 paper published in that city. It is quite a large paper & the whole first page is devoted to a biographical sketch & full length out of Mrs. B. I think Julius you ought to be thankful that your name has not been blazoned about as a leader of fashion, a kind of female Beau Brummel. I am sure I am glad that I have kept out of this part of the preformance. I would as soon have my name on the bottle I family all over the country, as Lunds Sasaparilla or Stains panacea. No Julius you can immortalize yourself on something better than petticoats.l Julius you must write. You write,excellent letters. Do write one for the next Lily, about servants; children, the costume, labor, or anything. Suppose you write a series of letters to mothers. Reread Combo with care, & teach mothers just how to take care of their babies. This would be a great amusement to you & of real use to many an ignorant mother. You need not let anyone but Massa Johnson know _ ‘until you appear in print & are approved.J Now do this Julius. Amelia & I get on delightfully. We have been feasting on strawberries. My baby is very good & grows finely. I continue to be his nurse & it iiseasier to look after him than to train an ignorant Irish girl. I g thave invented such a variety of ways to keep him quiet, that is ways for him to keep himself quiet. I'll tell you how site now in his carriage, comfortable behind him, pillow before him. A tiny tape is tied to the top, a bell is tied to the top also; hanging down about ltwo fingersfrom the top. He has the long tape in his hands which he plays with just as a kitten does with a string, every little whilehey. knocks the bell, then he looks steadily at it until it is perfectly I still. hhen he is tired of bell & string &.I must invent some otherll position. Thursday morning, I am writing this letter by installments. Two gentlemen from the Oneida Community have just seen downtown their last paper “The free church circular” contains a long article on dress. ylt is excellent. If you do not get that paper I will send YOU 036» I isend you the names of those men & women that are to be recipients of father's boundy here. as Henry had no time to attend to it I got George Price to do his duty for him. Henry is at Canandeigua now engaged in a very important suit. When Charley goes to New Jersey, if con- ivenient for him, I wish he would settle up Neil’sbil1S & I W111 39tt19 with him‘ I sould love to meet the gentry at Peterboro but I Cann0t cleave home with my baby now. Ee is so regular I get on S0i6aSY & . l I Q Ir. ‘ G 0V3 oomfortable that Idread tomake a nove. have to all at the T & in the thereﬁ to Cousin Charley & “wagabameﬁ adieu Yam? Cousin Lib. {T0 Elizabath Smith Miller)
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1872
Text: H . .4; % iwatimnatﬂ mm1m bmttﬁiragt Ewmtiattmnt, Auburn, N. Y. ’ 4 _ \ Vice Pre.vz'de74z‘, LUCRETIA MOTT, ” / ’ Philadelphia, Pa ’ _ -. r ( 4.‘? ‘A m ’ '1’ (I ( / C07/. Sec’;/, ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, // ' // Hartford, Ct. , / V ‘ Rec. 5683/, LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE, 106 East 55th St., New York. Trerzsz/:7’e7*, ELLEN C. SARGENT, - 308 F. Street,'N. \V., VVashington, D. C. //‘//ﬂ /, // //f//’ r €¢// / r , L 4/C//W%~ ’/0‘ LL ” ” //V ( ° ‘I / 2 ' // //A’ / C‘/in Ex. Com....
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