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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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1898-01-23
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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2 x/, ’(\"{'11» / CQPX Qriginel in Alma Lutz Collection Jan. 26th Mk. Weed- Dear Friend.%&M I am very éesiroue to see you. WhenV & where can I have an interview, Please fiireet, E. Gedy Stanton 75, 45 Sta, & let me hear as soon as possible. Yours truly.
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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Q‘ .7,’ § -n.":’»’ NATIONAL WOMAN SUFIIRAGIE ASSOCIATION. " Government: derive their just powers; from the consenboi‘ the guvcrne{1;" the bauiloi’. isconsent. I£1.1zA1~:F.TH CADY STANTON, Pr:esz'a’em‘, johnsmwn, N. Y. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, C}m2'rmzm Ex. Com., SUSAN ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.; 429 N. New Jersey st., Indianapolis, Ind. IVI.A'I‘ILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.; F.I.1.EN H. SHELDON, Rec, 525., Pn'cx«:m~: W. Cousms, St. Louis, Mo.; Q. M.-Gen.’s...
Show moreQ‘ .7,’ § -n.":’»’ NATIONAL WOMAN SUFIIRAGIE ASSOCIATION. " Government: derive their just powers; from the consenboi‘ the guvcrne{1;" the bauiloi’. isconsent. I£1.1zA1~:F.TH CADY STANTON, Pr:esz'a’em‘, johnsmwn, N. Y. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, C}m2'rmzm Ex. Com., SUSAN ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.; 429 N. New Jersey st., Indianapolis, Ind. IVI.A'I‘ILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.; F.I.1.EN H. SHELDON, Rec, 525., Pn'cx«:m~: W. Cousms, St. Louis, Mo.; Q. M.-Gen.’s Office, VVashington, D. C. Rev. OLYMPIA BROWN, Racine, WIis.; RACHEL G. FOSTER, Cor. Sea, Philadelphia, Pa. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAV, Portland, Oregon. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Tréas., V ice-Presz°(z’em‘.r—at—Zarge. Riggs House. Washington. D. C. /X/ A 4 I I / M /7 W z5m/ H ' ///%{/ W fl " 4 V1 /1 // “X EATIONAL aomlt eeeeaaea ASSOCIATION Dear Mr. Uhderhill, Don't you think where God fiathe Devil come in juxtaposition that the latter gentleman should be in ’ Capital as well as the former But for him what would become 0? our whole theological system In fact he is the main spoke in the wheel We ooulé have had “no fall”, “no redemption” "cruoifiotion" ”reeeunction," without him. “Original sin“, “salvation” through guilt, the judg~ ment seat“ “everlasting punishment” all these delight- ful mythologies, would have been lost without him. I say by all means let us print him with a big D. I 'should'like at least a dozen copies of the next number to send some to my native town, where there are people who still remember the old church. Sincerely yours, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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1885-03-13
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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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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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1885-03-27
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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1885-10-19
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Show more“rig” . I V »\,. i / 9‘ . -6’; I V ,/ , ,. / A A A» N’ //W’£;:.«‘*:V‘,;;~%.’/z‘.»fr.;....~v" 1/ / /’ /’ / , /xi 2 ,~ I A‘ *' I NA’I‘l()NAL WOMAN SUI?l«‘/1{"AGEV A’és()c1:&’1‘1oN. “Governments derive their just powers from the ooneé/nt of the governed;"’ the ballot is consent. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pre.s‘z'(ie7zz‘, WAY WRIGHT SEWALL, C‘/mz'rmcm Ex. C‘om., SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.; 429 N. New jersey st., Indianapolis, Ind. MATILDA _IOsLvN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.; ELLEN H. SHELDON, Rec. Sea, PHCEBE W. COUSINS, St. Louis, M0,; Q. M.-Gen.’s Office, Washington, D. C. Rev. OLYMPIA BROWN, Racine, VVis.; RACHEL G. FOSTER, Cor. Sea, Philadelphia, Pa. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWA\’, Portland, Oregon. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treas., Vice—Pres2'a’e7zts-at—Zav-‘gr. Riggs House, Washington. D. 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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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1889-01-29
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,_ fl/, NATIONAL WOMAN sU1+‘1j1{AGE Au.SS4()(:lArl‘lON.!§€%%‘§§ “Governments derive their just powers from the nsent of the governed.;'' the ballot is consent. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Presz'de7zt, MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, C/mirman Ex. Com., SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.; 429 N. New Jersey st., Indianapolis, Ind. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.; L ELLEN H. SHELDON, Rec. Sea, PHCEBE W. CoUsINs, St. Louis, Mo.; Q. M.-=Gen.’s Office, Washington, D. C. Rev. OLYMPIA BROWN,...
Show more,_ fl/, NATIONAL WOMAN sU1+‘1j1{AGE Au.SS4()(:lArl‘lON.!§€%%‘§§ “Governments derive their just powers from the nsent of the governed.;'' the ballot is consent. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Presz'de7zt, MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, C/mirman Ex. Com., SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.; 429 N. New Jersey st., Indianapolis, Ind. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.; L ELLEN H. SHELDON, Rec. Sea, PHCEBE W. CoUsINs, St. Louis, Mo.; Q. M.-=Gen.’s Office, Washington, D. C. Rev. OLYMPIA BROWN, Racine, Wis.; RACHEL G. FOSTER, Cor. Sea’, Philadelphia, Pa. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAV, Portland, Oregon. JANE H. SPOFFORD, ’1‘reas., I/'72‘?-Pr€:7'({e7IfS-Itf-[(27j.rj(fT: Riggs House. Washington, D. C. S » M . 5é§M§%§ Tenafly Jan 29 e ”eW; = Dear Mr Underwood I enclose your bill & money, keep what’ is over for other favors received. I have been so Easy with my book that I have not had time to write for The Index though I have had many subjects brewing in my mind that you ehell have in due season. I hope you & Mrs Um» erwood are well & still ready to break a lenoe on all occasions for freedom. with best regards for both Sincerely yours Elizabeth Cad? Stanton
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1 2,6 We 53 t 61 fl ('1 . AA? 75 ‘V’ F ‘b 15 : {:1 v’* Dear Mr. Underwood Your papers received. many thanks. I will read your editorials with pleasure. I am glad that you again have a paper at your disposal I have ordeoed my Book “Eighty’Yeere & Hove“ sent to you. I hope you & Ere. Ufiderwood will reed it & give it as oompimentery a review as your llteyery conscience will permit. In the meantime §ublish.my own review with some feofiuring remarks as to the novelty of my...
Show more1 2,6 We 53 t 61 fl ('1 . AA? 75 ‘V’ F ‘b 15 : {:1 v’* Dear Mr. Underwood Your papers received. many thanks. I will read your editorials with pleasure. I am glad that you again have a paper at your disposal I have ordeoed my Book “Eighty’Yeere & Hove“ sent to you. I hope you & Ere. Ufiderwood will reed it & give it as oompimentery a review as your llteyery conscience will permit. In the meantime §ublish.my own review with some feofiuring remarks as to the novelty of my yrooeeding. Eumonriie one of my strong points. ll om poblishing my book myself, that is my sons are at a cost of $1000 so I must ask all my friends to help me pueh it. I am sorry to hear that Ere. Vnderwood is suffering with rheumatism, but hope she soon be relieved. with kind regards Yours sincerely Elizabeth Gady Soanton
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26 east e1 . Y F b I35‘: 31- ~’$"‘* W .»v:“1"’*— 3 jg 4,‘ _«,’-.. jag avg‘) VI Deer fir. Ehderwood I sent you yesterday a review of my own bookli I forgot to make enclosed corrections oleaee make them before publishing Have you an enterprizing bookseller that could dispose of say 25 copies. would it be worth your while for 75 cents for all you sell. Toe price of the book is $2.00. You take 75 cents on each. I have ordered a copy sent you. As my sons are the o yubliehers all that is...
Show more26 east e1 . Y F b I35‘: 31- ~’$"‘* W .»v:“1"’*— 3 jg 4,‘ _«,’-.. jag avg‘) VI Deer fir. Ehderwood I sent you yesterday a review of my own bookli I forgot to make enclosed corrections oleaee make them before publishing Have you an enterprizing bookseller that could dispose of say 25 copies. would it be worth your while for 75 cents for all you sell. Toe price of the book is $2.00. You take 75 cents on each. I have ordered a copy sent you. As my sons are the o yubliehers all that is made comes to me. So please do whet you can to push the book in the next Send a good review to the Freethought Eagezine & much oblige Yours sincerely Elizabeth Cedy Stanton
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kiff If :2?“ 2 .»;;1' 4» r” . , If 15‘ - ‘«*_»«4-'«*a;é' ‘ ’A;“/ 5 W ..¢«-:~‘-*" ‘ 1‘ .fn~g‘v’§/' > f‘ 27 A?’ 3.? n 1 < ,. A 9 I E q.. 3. »f" .49 I5 \ P’ COPY Original in Alma Lutz Collection Dear Mr. Underwood I enclose what is left of Swing (?) for your wife, if she thinks what is left of him is worth further bombarding. I think the time has fully come for us to pass resolutions everytime in our commentary against woman's contemplated status in the...
Show morekiff If :2?“ 2 .»;;1' 4» r” . , If 15‘ - ‘«*_»«4-'«*a;é' ‘ ’A;“/ 5 W ..¢«-:~‘-*" ‘ 1‘ .fn~g‘v’§/' > f‘ 27 A?’ 3.? n 1 < ,. A 9 I E q.. 3. »f" .49 I5 \ P’ COPY Original in Alma Lutz Collection Dear Mr. Underwood I enclose what is left of Swing (?) for your wife, if she thinks what is left of him is worth further bombarding. I think the time has fully come for us to pass resolutions everytime in our commentary against woman's contemplated status in the Bible & church. It would certainly serve the purpose of agitation, as the Patton matter proves. I received your letter & contents & wrote my son what you said & urged him to send you more articles on French affairs. with kind regards for yourself & wife, Sincerely ever Elizabeth Cady Stanton Mrs. Underwoods article on Patton was good. His falsehood & contradictions are pitiful.
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Show more4- .4,»-»..v--. ~ —‘ -...;.—\..._.v —~ 3 i‘ .1, ,‘I. ‘/ ,_.. ‘fl-_,\, ... M. ., .. . \ .7 _ , , .. ... a. M. .,.,.,,;—-.,-w:«. ..,,..»\_..._..,. ,. .,...._,~_\__ ,,A._ , _ . xv ‘. 5 '? §, ), N.\'l‘l();\f\IJ \\“(>,\[,\%\.§% Slfl’l’l{,\(§Ii ‘*\v'\\\-;\‘()(,\{4~\'[“l‘_)L\‘I “Governments derive their jugi*g:§§6§r‘ers from the consent of the governed ; ” the ballot is consent. "'7 ’ / . _ , V_ _T\I.A.\ \\o,£4I1k?£{‘1‘ SI€\\'AI.l.. C/zzzz"7‘;/zzziz .Ex. C0m., 19.1 I/A121-Z’1‘H LI\1»\,' 3"‘«’!‘.r\;\'I‘(‘<¥1‘~{, j«»hn~msxn_ Y, mi N: New jcrscy :1.. Indianapolis. Ind. [ 5I'S.‘\P{ I’). ;\:<rr1«'>x\g I{o:‘¥1LV«::Egcz:;TA§é“ ;% 5 ;\1,\T1;A_1;;k _y1(,.g;,\:>;‘_(;}3;«(;‘i-;.,M "‘i}Va~—:’j1.cK~a11<_e. N. 3'.‘ V }{L1_E:~. H. SH1:1.1><_)N. ffirc. _‘>'e:'., Q ])}“,,:m,; Vy‘ Cr;;"m;N.§,_ ‘V T», .\Io,; V‘, «, Z\I,-(_1:?n.’;~"» Office, ‘W;1.x}1ingtc»m IL C. 1 Rev. (7)L‘{."~.‘i!‘I.~\ _[iR.d’.}s'ixg. R;u:in<:‘ $\Vi~s.; M RACHEL. G. F0s1‘x~;H. Cur. -.S"€r., Phi’E3deipi’:i:L. Pa. ' IAN}: H. SPOITFLJRI), T¢~€zzs., Riggs H(-use, \’\':1s1‘2i1V1;:t<)x1, I), C, ...‘ 3‘ ;\1:l1;AH. SCOTT .-xv, P<‘vr:lM;uui, ()rc_«;<“>n.; I './z’t'~ /' ’5‘g’A‘I’(/e'I.u'L~‘ :1!‘ .7, (1 2‘g;«'. Wu“) /\;’z'mnv //mm‘, HVNA‘//2‘//‘:3/1?}/, I). ( I f«\’«\',”. av: yr I. J ..-*' , —--nu. ,« » .—‘. V _ ; 5 .5 ‘ ,3‘ t .2’ I‘ J’ } J‘ ,4’ ff - ta 3‘. J , _ ‘ 2* ;=‘ . W Ara J M Q . .39. Q, $.15 5 r , K , .4‘ A‘. 2‘? ‘sw J‘, .7“ ‘ ,.Lf a . :7? ~‘ ‘r m 4; , ilk 3: J1 ,. w 2 ' 9 A‘ ;”"?-V‘ 3'5: « E: ii . Ii‘ , .24.. 9 u 3&2 _ *..,?.. . ._. . \—~»»«».~:-.-.=me.~.W._z, W Original in V, Alma Lutz Collection; X ,1 ‘ 1 6 uv 9, V-*" .7 "' 42 V 3 gm” X ~ . '”~.\ .<*.«..-;; I -. J.’ ‘»,,_\;v‘ . Dear Mrs. Conte Many thanks for your beautiful gift. I shall hang it in.my bedroom & think of your oppressed race whenever I look at it. we Saxons can never atone for all the injustice towards you. But I hope by kindness & consideration in the future we may help your children to all the advantages they need for their full development. I will hand the dollar for your membership of the Woman Suffrage Association to the Treasurer Mrs. Spofford. Sincerely yours, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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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)
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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
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Z%:::%/A / Alma Lutz Collection ( C O P Y ) Highwood Park Tenafly N.J. June nth Dear Mrs. Smith, In my recent speech on Divorce I made some qzotations from you which I put in quotations but in the publication in The World the marks were in the wrong place. So you see here I am jerkede up. If I am not very much mistaken all your facts are correct as I recognized your statements at once as familiar, having heard and read the same before. Where did you learn what you stated in regard to Clay a...
Show moreZ%:::%/A / Alma Lutz Collection ( C O P Y ) Highwood Park Tenafly N.J. June nth Dear Mrs. Smith, In my recent speech on Divorce I made some qzotations from you which I put in quotations but in the publication in The World the marks were in the wrong place. So you see here I am jerkede up. If I am not very much mistaken all your facts are correct as I recognized your statements at once as familiar, having heard and read the same before. Where did you learn what you stated in regard to Clay a Franklin. some paper denied the fact of Theodore’s insanity & published his death three days after stating that he had laid in the asylum fifty years. The entire press of the cpuntry are pointing at me but as I weigh 175 lbs. I think I can stand it. How is my namesake. Give her my blessing & a kiss. One of these days I hope to hold her & kiss her for myself. I assure you I appreciated the compliment you paid me in naming your only daughter after me. I hope in all the ups and downs of life that I may remain trued to principle so that you may never regret having dubbed her Elizabeth. with kind regards to your handsome husband, Mrs. Johnson &for yourself, Your friend sincerely Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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26 West 61st N.Y. Eeb 19 (1998) Dear Mrs. Thomas boo}: "E‘:;ig;ght;; Years zaivre is now on the mam-at & I am writing all my friends to take five or ten copies to distribute among their impeourloue friends & neighbors, that hhe Book may reach as many women as possible for whom it is oesigned. My sons are the Publishers, so all the profits come to me & as my income is Very limited your generosity would be a blessing to me as well as may I order five copies sent to your address...
Show more26 West 61st N.Y. Eeb 19 (1998) Dear Mrs. Thomas boo}: "E‘:;ig;ght;; Years zaivre is now on the mam-at & I am writing all my friends to take five or ten copies to distribute among their impeourloue friends & neighbors, that hhe Book may reach as many women as possible for whom it is oesigned. My sons are the Publishers, so all the profits come to me & as my income is Very limited your generosity would be a blessing to me as well as may I order five copies sent to your address? The reviews are thus far very complimentary. Last Eunday Sun gave me nearly three columns.’ They all say as the story of a busy life it is very intereeting. After reading tell me how it impresses you. with lind regards, Yours sincerely Elizabeth Cody Stanton
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New York 26 West 61st 4, 4, 9’; July 14 % %*m§§ Dear Mrs. %litc, I have no rcmombranco of the extract you send but it sounds liko mnél I send you the Women's Bible that you can sec what my views are now. I wish you could find a market for a few dozen in Denver. You can get them by the dozen for twenty five cents & sell them for fifty cents the retail price; You will see on the cover where to order them. Yours sincerely Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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C O P Y Riggs House Feb. 12 (I8‘w‘3 My dear Mrs. hellen Miss Anthony just handed me your note &%d I hasten to say do come back to Washington for a few days so as to be here at Susan's birthday banquet at the Riggs Eouse. There will be about 200 guests & that will give you an opportunity to see all the faithful. Egg can come & return three days after the convention on reduced fare § board §£_the Riggs for $2.50 during the convention. Both of my daughters are here. Mrs. Blatch ...
Show moreC O P Y Riggs House Feb. 12 (I8‘w‘3 My dear Mrs. hellen Miss Anthony just handed me your note &%d I hasten to say do come back to Washington for a few days so as to be here at Susan's birthday banquet at the Riggs Eouse. There will be about 200 guests & that will give you an opportunity to see all the faithful. Egg can come & return three days after the convention on reduced fare § board §£_the Riggs for $2.50 during the convention. Both of my daughters are here. Mrs. Blatch & I sail for England next Wednesday morning. We go directly from here to the ship, so this is our only chance of seeing you. My best love to your seven children & accept much for yourself. Yours sincerely Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan is 70 years old on Saturday, the 15th & the banquet takes place at 9 o'clock in the evening.
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Z} // /v 4/ V X % 5 4 x MQLK /1 ,/ / F , .. 5-134* ewhou 12th ? Dear Olive, when I entered Detroit this morning, the first thing that caught my eye was your name good said I as the night is free I will stay & hear the “Bright-nite“ of humanity, but lo! on inquiry I found you came the 18th when I am engaged & so I shall not hear or see you But I write a line to say that my intenest & sympathy are With.you wherever you.go. Heard Anna's "Men's rights” in N.Y. the night...
Show moreZ} // /v 4/ V X % 5 4 x MQLK /1 ,/ / F , .. 5-134* ewhou 12th ? Dear Olive, when I entered Detroit this morning, the first thing that caught my eye was your name good said I as the night is free I will stay & hear the “Bright-nite“ of humanity, but lo! on inquiry I found you came the 18th when I am engaged & so I shall not hear or see you But I write a line to say that my intenest & sympathy are With.you wherever you.go. Heard Anna's "Men's rights” in N.Y. the night I left. I believe the games next here. Susan tells me how much ehe enjoyed meeting you at Rochester & the pleasant impression made by your speech. I hope we may meet in our wanderings with much love Your friend sincerely Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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1872-04-01
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L i 3: j.» a» if . L’ “it -L~; _,.;«' . A _ ' ___,.»_ I . <.‘.7.\‘ J.‘ #3 is ’ 44*‘ 9" 9 1 /11' 4.. . -,3 V; K‘ i .4 f p" 1' ‘ \ R ‘J’ y/, ,,.r i ,7 J 4‘ "‘ 7' " , 9’ I » ‘ V7 :7’ Z R’ / ‘F ’ if, K‘ r ' K ‘__, W ’;. J ‘ Q _I ; 7 A3 Y . .52‘ {1’:—:;’' ,4 /"0 A *3’ . _ I 49 ‘ I xe _./V“ _":,‘J' .. ./ 5.-» w.»‘ ;->s’mIs.»'.;~..-V . 1 zk A 5. ~ -~* ' ‘ E,» . J .2‘ i -. '7 . 1* .é* . ‘r 16, ,' I. .;. 4- 1’ “ n I .5 re .1’? I? ./ a‘'‘«:r..- _ » , , ‘ _ _ , _ , \ /-v‘ ,-1 _ ’k’/>.r" - , I .159 C O ? Y ~$£aw&flt .xi*““‘ ‘e /, -u-:«-'I:»,...«fi},7"' ‘,5 1‘ my; 1 ’y ,. New Castle Delaware Ea:-ril 1 , 187;] Dear fiaulina, dead encloeed and eend to Ere. Hooker ae reqneeted. I have just enent a day and night with Lucretia a hrs. wright where I meet John Bright's sister again a many ther pleasant friends ae Lucretia invited one dett ieifl to dinner, another to tea, a etill another to enend the night & hreakfaet. 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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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
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atimnal Wnman Suffrage A3 S1: Eiatiun. ELIZABETH GADY STANTON, PRESIDENT, JANE H. SPOFFORD, TREASURER, 8 WEST 4TH ST.. NEW YORK. Rte-Gs HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. O. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, VICE-PRESIDENT AT LARGE, HANNAH B. SPERRY, REC. SEO., ‘ROCHESTER, N. Y. WASHINGTON. D. G. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, OHAIRMAN EX. COM, RACHEL G. FOSTER, OOR. SEO., FAYETTEVILLE, N. Y. 748 N. 19TH ST., PHILADELPHIA. ............. 512%/M” °fl‘”‘/ , A 1 Z¢/z...»£/ /21, ;//(;7/7»t//~/ Q) 4/yywj / / 2» , 1, A M/N A74/" , Q4...
Show moreatimnal Wnman Suffrage A3 S1: Eiatiun. ELIZABETH GADY STANTON, PRESIDENT, JANE H. SPOFFORD, TREASURER, 8 WEST 4TH ST.. NEW YORK. Rte-Gs HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. O. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, VICE-PRESIDENT AT LARGE, HANNAH B. SPERRY, REC. SEO., ‘ROCHESTER, N. Y. WASHINGTON. D. G. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, OHAIRMAN EX. COM, RACHEL G. FOSTER, OOR. SEO., FAYETTEVILLE, N. Y. 748 N. 19TH ST., PHILADELPHIA. ............. 512%/M” °fl‘”‘/ , A 1 Z¢/z...»£/ /21, ;//(;7/7»t//~/ Q) 4/yywj / / 2» , 1, A M/N A74/" , Q4/A 1e/Z:WW/ ”> W on the former answer have. on the 706 florth 19th St Gmaha, Heb V Oct 16th gleeegg Just received yours of the 10th. As I have been wing since returning from England in March, your letter may have been easily lost. I will send an to your question “Would women vote“? this Week. You did not say how many words eech one could Yes I will send you articles during the winter, question of the hour that seem uppermost. Send me some articles of the kind you find most popular that I may judge. Truly yours E.C. Stanton
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Show more4:” ~ I ‘ .k . 7‘)? 4 :4 I 4* *"' ' .. ‘ I < V _.,‘ AA ,9 K-fi,s".“ 1 ”’*'f4‘&5'£3.ifaef4¢”&-4” ' Efiitor ’E‘flE% V®ECE, I8 anti 2% &st®r Pfiace, NEW Y®RE§ CITY. Qe ___, D 01% /5 av '\ fi__ ,; , * 1 I 47/ V x ,/' W I ,//V‘ V ‘ >.. 3 U’ 7’ 1' / ‘I / 4 ‘Y I ‘% C O F Y Postal cawd to: ‘Editor $33 VOIGE, 18 and 20 Astor Place, EEW'YORK CITY. 20 West 61 Street 3}:!“OV a Dear Sir: I will write the article you propose & send before Dec. 5rd Yours Elizabeth Cady Stanton » €Z—,L? Mrs K
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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
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‘ICE OF PHILLIPS, 01.05’ A.Rc:A1>I+:. M; 26%: s 0 P“: , L? V W,» :E_ 47:44,‘ gum :, .. 49.,’ ..,E -T» ,,-.~\._ 4:54;} =3 "<::,- E‘ Y‘? s=s :5 §?=;’s gm,‘ 5,: »\,..’ ,«~' n "‘.~ _... "-a’ »».4\ ..4». '..~’ u»'— {,1 “ ' ' ‘ _ ‘ g E ,“ F’ ‘t .7) ., f.,K~.p %,_4; ‘g I’ :_“.=, #1‘ - >_,.“ ‘Q: ' if ‘G ., *3/'
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£1 ~*\E ‘ ~. .\{ \ \ x \ ‘E: Q ?§ K \Z;\§\ 26 West 61 .« .-er T A.. 5 *1 W ""1 ‘ h{K. March 5 g%%%%w: Dear Eadam Enclosed find notices of my new bOOL3o Leading Journals in England & America have been vary 1 comggmentary in their reviews. Please do what ycu can to aid in their circulation & much oblige Yours sincerely Elizabeth Safiy Stanton
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La_Fayetta Ind Aug 27th Dear Friends I want very much to meat you & talk over tha situation. 1 shall be at the Sherman Houaa Chicago on Saturday % Sunday reaching there Friday evening about six o*olook. I want you if possible to spend a few hours with me there. This is the fiost opportunity we have ever had of meeting & I do hope noéto make your acquaintance, Gordially yours Eliazbethtcady Stanton
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A’ (K (\ lDear Sir Floaoo inform me about how long my papers should be,%if I am permitted to take pavt inthe discussion at what hour do you meet? Can I bring a friend? % Rospt yours Elizabeth Cody Stanton I think I have marked all the priots I make in enclosed.
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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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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
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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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Alma Lute Collection G O P Y Ne DEC, 5 7:» e Deer fire Ward I send an article on the ebueee of thie wholeeele giving of preeente on Chrietmeee If you feel moved do eey an editorial word on the amount of nerve force delicate women expend in that way & the tax it is on husbands these hard times. The President recommends economy in his meeeage & surely these are times to give all we can spare to the poor. Yours sincerely Elizabeth Cedy Stanton {§r. were wee en editor of the Ineepeedent;§ ..J
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0/2/24'/0 «Q «~ flu 5» 09 Q [/1 pv 1/ g ‘ , if / /, / / Aime Lute Gellection C O P Y Beeingetoke Eente Englenfi Rov.l8 «I -v- s filllifim J. Eek Deer Eir, Eeure of October 20th hes juet reached me. 1 em here for the winter busy writing my reminiscences to be publiehed in book farm when completed. Ehey are at preeene being gubliehed free week to week in The Women's Tribune. I am elee wrieing oceeeienel ertielee for papers e magazines. whet do you pay e eelumn & on whet eubject would...
Show more0/2/24'/0 «Q «~ flu 5» 09 Q [/1 pv 1/ g ‘ , if / /, / / Aime Lute Gellection C O P Y Beeingetoke Eente Englenfi Rov.l8 «I -v- s filllifim J. Eek Deer Eir, Eeure of October 20th hes juet reached me. 1 em here for the winter busy writing my reminiscences to be publiehed in book farm when completed. Ehey are at preeene being gubliehed free week to week in The Women's Tribune. I am elee wrieing oceeeienel ertielee for papers e magazines. whet do you pay e eelumn & on whet eubject would you like eome lettere? ey deeghfier fire. Etemten Bletch with whom I am eteying et ereeent \-.4 ie e fine writer, e could give you eeme intereetiee lefitere of I have e een.too in Eerie who ie a fine writer, Theofiore fiienten, 9 re fie Seeeeno, Eeeie, France. He hee e fiyefiieete elem menegee by Eefilure, perheye you eeeiet each other. I will eend year letter fie him e tell him who yen ere. Eoure truly Elizabeth Gee; Steeten ey direction is fire. Elizabeth Seég fieemten Beeingeteke Heats Englend -us -yr 3 Gere of Wiliiem hemry Bleteh
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Mrs. Barclay Cornelia grand & dignified, Brightest in affliction tried With her jewels, pure & rare No Roman matron can compare. Mt. Stanton The stump orator, who helped give the nation, A rail spliter, with his grand proclamation; Is worthy of our thanks & toasts, Although he don't believe in ghosts, It is not given to the Stantons To spend their time in chasing phantoms. Mrs. Wa1ter Ho longer tied to David's salter, Born again is Ellen Walter Into the world of truth.&thought And doctrines, such as Jesus taught. Mr. Smi th Oh touch.my tongue with celestial fire Te praise his of fame, who can aspire Enough to say, perchance, he is no myth World K110“ immortalaeerrit Smith. Mr . Keeys The Gods all assembled in council one day, To pour out their gifts in the same piece of clay and forth there spring as by magic power Arman equipped for this sad hour. With a noble great frame & a big heartto match Courageous & bold without flaw or scratch Then what to name him, some discussion arose But soon all agreed to call his “Big Nose". Mrs. Stanton Here is dear Lizzie Stanton, plump & sound Would she were with.manhood crowned So lofty are her thoughts & wishes, So much she dames & dishes. Cousin Gerrit Trudy Walter with graceful gestures, soft dark eyes; Who is that fair one silent by? a Who hears not, speaks not, the earth born tongue, whence came, where goes, that blessed one? the mingles with.us, feels each thought, As if by inspiration caught, She seems a link ‘tween us & Heaven A.mystic life, our hearts to leaven. Cousin Lib Trudy Walter Dear Trudy a girl of our choice She hears; but it's only God's voice, She speaks; but with only the finger around this dear girl our hearts love to linger. Uncle Gerrit Horace Greeley Smith Here's Horace Greeley nh Who still is really an unsophisticated.man On what other politician Of his high position So great a praise bestow you can. Horace Greeley Stanton Where is the man not proud to commuc With the Hercules of our Tribune? Who has done more to rouse this nation and reinstate the Declaration. "That God made all men free Endowing life with liberty”? Than Horace Greeley good.& great Felt alike,in chnrch.& state.
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Show moreI .5 '4» @”Z27fi”% « /12% /z fl . “ % fit; W5 /M %‘yW/$2/roux %z4/,.Z%’M/ ‘ ’« I *‘ A 2:44 ¢,,74,.,¢J 444/r»z,<_.,/w»%%_ Originsl inf? Alma Lute Collection. My birthday * s 2 55 We've decked thy chamber love for thee with evergreens & flowers With drapery of white We've shut out the nights oAnd each brought a token Be it softly spoken To celebrate the time with you when earth received sweet Ann Fitzhugh Celmly & bravely, you've lived & loved Through all life's joys and sorrows Like flowers in summer When soft Zephyrs blow And green trees in winter when buried in snow 4 In gladness, in sadness thou'st ever been true Reflecting God's glory; good Nanny Fitzhugh. Good night to thee angel we have thee alone May loyal celestials welcome thee home A May eherie spirits enter, And kneel round thy bed So thou tell us tomorrow All all they have said And tell us moreover if in that whole train There comes one more noble than Gerrit of fees. General John Coohrane A void is in our feast tonight Where‘s Gen.John the brave He's gone to point the northern light To the anxious shipwreck slave When he comes back we'll deck his bros with leurels ever green. The figurehead on the old ship of State Shall be Gen. John Coehrane. (Verses written for her guests by Elizabeth Cedy Stanton)
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M7” A As I galkeé along the prafity cauntry roafi ta cast my vote la$t\§QV%E%$?~ifi thia auburb af §@w“§ark $ifiy,~h0w I aid wigh that my mother, the lata Elizabeth Cééy Séggfiefi, ways witfifie, ‘gLj7> an her way to tha @9115. Gnly 933 or fiwc ef the far wefitern gfiatafi gave thair women tha vata bafare 3&3 gaagefi away. I Esra a beautiful brooch, an heirloom, Qblong in ghaya. fihe breast pin hag quite a wide gold baréer inlaifi with levely pearla, in the cantar of %hieh, mnéer glasfi, ig a lack sf myfi mather*$ wendarful'@hite hair. $3 the hack sf fihe pin I have had imaerihed, as that whoéver inherita it will knew w%0ge flair it 1%, the follewing: Earn Eev. 12, 1815. Elizabeth Sfifiy fitanton. 42“j?;» % éiea Got. 25, 1902. I was éetefiminaa that acmething belenging ta bar ahauld be in the yelling beath.$ith.me when I marked my bailetfi, aft@r aha had faught ta get mg %omen.the vot@ for evér fifty fear (5%) years af bar life: As I walked along unéer fihe treas, faat fihaééing their laaves, I picturad my mother Eben aha e&llafi that first con- ?@flti@fl a haantiful yeung waman of thirtyuthree the mothar ef three stalwart haya. ay paranta aant ta Baatsn, aasaachnaatta, in 1845: ahare my father, tha late Henry Braaatar Stanton, a airact aaacandant ca aha Rav.'%illiaaaBraaatar aha came avar in the aayfloaar, ba- gan the practice sf laa as a partner ef Raina fihoata. Ea haa fer many yaara baan an araant anti~a1aaary advaaata and aaa ena cf ifia aaat ra w brilliant aratora. In Beaten aethar mat Lydia aaria Salli, Elizabafih Eaabeay, ?ha0&ara Parker, Balph‘aald6 fimaraan, Gharlea Samnar, John G. ahifitiar, Brenaan Alcott, aathanialafiaatherna ana aaay ataar litarary lighta. aha and my fathar aara fragment viaitora at tha hamaa af aanflall Phillipa and ailliam Llayd Garriaon. aaila in Eeaton.aathar attanéea all the lacturaa, caurchaa, cenceraa, taaatraa, taaparanca, peace ani yriaon rafcrm, and anti-alaaary Convaatiana that aat in that cifiy: aha aaya, “I naaar liaad in auch an anthuaiaatically literary and raform A Amauziz. hflwfil a latituda before. afanawaral aeaarsfihera kept at the highest tenaioaam fhoaa aara atirring tiaas in ahiah my paraafia livad.a‘ §aat9n aaa the atana cantar cf many cf the big aavaaanta af that day. ?ha graat antiualavary aaatiaga in Eanuail Eall aaaaad “Eha fink“ ta ita vary fouaaatien. But alaai the cliaata of Baatcn pravaa to ba tea aaaara far my fathar, as they aara abligad ta laava all thia congenial aociaty and the goad atart ha haé mafia in the law; In 1847 &ey flowed to $efiec& Falls, Ee%'York, a litfile village % in the centar sf the gtatfi, whare fig granflfather, Juéga figéy C&¢j7; had large landaé intaresta, and affarad}tflem a nice heme, with spasiaus graunfia, ané a farm naarby. Sf their new abiding place my mather gays, “In §%n%C& fiallg life was ctmparatively salitary, and £35 change from.Eogt9n was gameahat dapregsing. ‘There all my immeaiate friandg Wfifé re- fonmera; I had near n&igbor$,;a may houae with,mod@rn imgrovaw manta, ana wellwtrainaa sarvanta. flare our residenc@‘%a$ in the outgkirts sf tha village, roaé$ eften mudéy and me aid@w&lk3 meat of the gay. “fir. fitanton gag fragueatly away frcm,hem@ an %usine$$, I bad year servants, and an incraasing number sf children. ?e keep a houge ané graunés in gaod erder, purchfiaa every articlfi far daily nae, Rea? thexuardrobes of half a éazen human beingg in prayer irim, take chiiiren ta fientigts§ fikeemakara, ta éiffarefit achoala, aitegether made gufficiant WQEK ta heap nae brgim bag‘, as well ag all the hands, I 0031i ifi§?€S$ infio the aarvica. Then, tea, the novelty af heugakeeping had paggefi away, and much that wag snag attractive in fiamaatic life wag nsfi irkaame. I haé so maay cares that t&@ ccmpauy I naafiaa far imtallectual atimulufi was a trial rathar than a yleagurafi. axtc/{tmzfi”»-ac. fihfi writea, “I new fully und@§3tand tha yractical fiifficulu tiea meat wmmen had to ceatead with im the igal&te& hauafihali, ‘ ané tha impoaaibility sf waman'$ bag? &e?@lgpm&nt if im cant&ct the ehiaf Qarfi cf hat life with gervamtg and children.“ Afimerssn aays,”Afhealthy%éi$acntent :3 the firat $t%§ in pregress,“ mathar §ay$,”Th& general fiigcamtant I f@1t witfi %0mén’s partisn as wifa, mcther§ hauaekaeyflr, yhyaician, and spiritual guifie, the ch¢0tic conditian inte wfiich avfirything fell without har cangfiant auyervigiaa, and the w&ari@fi, amxieufi leak 01! af taa majority sf women Lmyreagefi me with & faeling fihat gama J agtivg mgaaurag ghculm he takaa ta wemficy the wrangfi sf fiociaty in genera1,:&nfi of wamen in particular. it gaemfifi ta imgai me ‘ '5 kg same Qmward gtay. 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The result eee they decided fie cell e.“eemen*e Rights flan» ven‘i;ien**, the :i’ire‘t in history! They er:-ate The $33.11 for that meeting thee efterneen, end as my mother dreve heme, eee left it efe the e;f:t‘:i.ee of The eeneca} emney C{§1‘u.rie_3:: fie ee jggmhliehed the next day, July 14, lees. fhe meetings eere te‘be hele en July 19th. and 20th. The Cell eee ineeried without eigneturee, hue fine chief mevere ene menegere eere Elizabeth flgay Stentmn, 4flUi;L, of Seneca Falls: Lucretia Eott, ef ?hiladelphie; eerthe C. ‘eright of Auburn E. Y;-eeeieter oibcrefiie Eefit-end the grand- mother ef Themes eat: Osborne, eke eee the femoue eerden of Sing fiing yrieon in ear dey; end ehe ihue comes ne£urelly,yee§ eee, by flie reform yreclifitiee. The other rebellieue eemee eho eigned were eay Ann Eeohetock and Jane Hunt of Weterlee. 54,, 4;; 7£@%%£L€7¢¢uA4A4LIC.%Q¢’4“WL&7-w A quintette es it eere. ~‘_ I E i 5 t I / Tn «*2. '3; =v “_ M 1% ' 16.31? 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But this breve. yeung mether ef mine was ee eure ef what was needed that she éefied the eerie, her husband and Lucretia Matt! whegthird pereen he ehem Mrs. Stanten.cenfided her intent» ions was Frederick Deuglaee, the brilliant celered ereter, ehe had came dawn frem.Recheeter te speak at the Cehventien. My mether asked him what it was that he saw, that his peeple. needed to put them on the right plane! “The ballot“, he promptly rep1ied.2¢*And I eee that the ballet ie exactly what ghh eemen need,“ eeid Elizabeth Qgay Stanten. 4;??g_ Then she explained ta him.that she had drawn up such a reeelutien/ite text shortly fellows. This she said she eeuld reed te the convention when the IX Reeelutien has called fer, ehd that he must jump to his feet immedietexy and make e.rihg- ing epeeeh in favor ef its passage: and ehen she weuld de like~ wise. The fameue IX.Reeo1utieno fiheeolveig That it is the duty cf the women ef this eeuntry to eeeure ta themselves their sacred right e:#the Elective Franchise.” hr. Douglass agreed with her that her resolution hit the nail righfi on it5m heai. and saii he wauld d@ all he cauld ta help her. fhen,teo,mother rhuembered the advice given her by Daniel O*Cnell, the famoua Irishh erater wh she met Landhaz; England in 1840 en her wedding trip. while attending the‘Warld's Anti-Slavery Canvention with my father, Henry Brewsfier*8tanton, who was ane ef the delegates fram the United States Qf Americg, as Well as being the Searetary of the Cenvention. She haw a great deal of Mr. O'C@nne1l éuring that Con» ventien, and when she and father were in Dublin, Ireland. my parents dined with him. During the dinner she asked the”Irish Liherater“. as O'Connell was called. if he expected ta gain freedam fer Ireland? “Ne,” he replied, “but when you are agitating a questien a1» 3 u ways ask for the uttenmost, than yeu hay get smaethin Of ceurse these on the platform were furiaua at her fer springing her reselution in the conventien, they thought they had squelched. her beierehand. It created hot c'teba.te. but the brilliant defenee af Douglass ani her gwnhelaquence ah rauaed the auaience that many arese aha spake far her aiée: and after a three hnufh tussle it was carried, by a small majarity! 4.4% So that Elizabeth Q§d¥[Stenten*s demand free the very first was these three little words "Votes fer eemenf ” Pram en article that I read enky teodey, eritten by en old inhabitant of Seneca Falls, end ene ef mether’e near neighbere~~Janet Ceeinga-«I teke the felleeing; fifhetjggygigi’ §g§h§§;§eneentien ef l8e8 e$eite& the laughter of the netien. Same of the papers treated it eith derision, and others eith indignation. Only the Anti~e1every papers steed menfully by the eemen.“ ey mether eeye of it: ”With.eur De » hand Reeelutione for e text. it seemed as if every men'who eeuld 77 wield a pen prepared e hemily en*eemanfeS here’. So prenouneed was the pepuler voice egeinet it, in parlor; preee and pulpit that meet ef the ladies who had etteneed the cenventien and signed the Declaretien. one by ene withdrew their names and influence, ené joined ear pereecutere. Our friends gave us the cold sheulder and felt themselves disgraced by the whole preceeding.“ 2 z,_. Further en in her beak hrs. Stanton says, Wflhether ema- vention ees held ene menth later in Reeheeter, R". Y. The first ene seemed te heve dreen ell the fire, and ef the seeend but little eee eeid in the press. We had set the bell in metion. and new in quick sueeeeeiee conventions eere held in Ohio, Indiene, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and in the city ef flee Yerk; end have been kept up even einee.“ 10. A list ef these signing the Declaration and Resolutions at Seneca Fells, July 19. end 20, in 1848, is given in Mrs. Stenten’e Autebiegrephy. heny peeple are new claiming that their eneeetere signed thet list, an consulting it yeu eill find that their names do not appear on it et all} It numbered only about one hundred. SUSAN E. ANTHON¥. Susan B. Anthony was not present eh that femoue fenece Falls Cenventien of 1848.L She did not eeme into the meve~ ment till three (5) years later 185i; She was teeehing school, et this time. et Cenejeherie. in the Valley ef the hhhawk river]. when ehe reed the Wemen's Decleretionhef Indepeneenee and these eleven Reeeluggpns in the pepers,'tis said she rether laughed at their audacity. But when she get heme for her eummer vacation and heard the reports of her father, mother and eieter Mary, ehe attended the meeting in Reeheeter; ehere my mother spoke, and heard them eey that they eeneidered hrs. Stenten'e% demands “quite proper," it-set-her te thinking. My mother and Suseefhnthony did not meet till 185%” ehen she came te Senece Falls te attend an anti-slavery meeting g2:§E2;&;up by‘Williem.L1eyd Gerrieee and Geerge fhempeen. But elmest free theisiygthat my mother eed hiss Antheny A met they became the eemeet ef frienae, and eteee by each ether ;1G£B) yeere. Theirs wee. prebebly. one of the most beautiful friendships that ever exietee between tn eemen. She was e cenetent visitor at ear heuee after 1851. and eee en ethef tggie. et eur heme ehertly after I was barn; and Wes ene of my earliest friends end admirers, and tech almost entire Centinued 0 charge of ma when I was being weaned in 1855?? Se yam see I knew ”Thuzan¢“, as he ehildrenalwaya called her from “A ta Zg almost from the haur sf my birth, Oct. 20. 1852, till the day ef her death 1.196. a:e. sld laéy @f 75 fr&n.where It is quite a walk for_a I live t9 the polls. §=égg:;£:%Z I had plenty of time ta reminisce. hhen I arrived at the nice, clean, reomy. school hcuseneur pelling plhca- I theught af mother's prew dietions. that when wamen got the vote he_waulémhawe decent places in which ta hold elections, instead cf old barber shaps, er small tailoring establishments, and the like, as in the days of man-rle. I Walked into the play~roam an a level with the street. An American flag held 3. conspicucus place an‘ the/fg‘iLL‘: plenty of henchhs and chairs were scattered abeut, there were tWQ wamen amang the gelling clerks. A policemax?with.nething ta de, sat reading his morning paper. Gh! my, theught I, haw mcther wegld have enjoyed seeing her predictions came true. Such a centrast th the canditians of the polls cnly a few years age. when we wemen were still asking far the ballot, and the men allawed us ta be watchers in New“Yerk City. One place was right appasite where I lived in the west-nineties, just off Broadway,---a “kid glove“ district. as it was called. 12. ey sister, hrs. B1etch1eae then President ef The%emen'e Politieel Union: almd her yeung eeeretry hed been eeeigned. to egggg in this little teilering etere Where the oak place. Her Secretary, Miss Hill. was bemeening the feet that they had not been eentvdoen te same tough place where exciting things eeuld heppeh. “Ree held on. Alberta, the day ien’t dehe yet, yen may see things even up here? I eeie. And they did: ene by ene the pclling clerks disappeared and came back drunk, the pelice had to he called in. ere. Bletch and Miss Hill were preeeedgigte service by the sober heed-men te help him eet in the emergen- cy. They eorkefi fer inte the night; eere too busy even te come ecreee the street and partake-ef the tempting dinner thet .my geod cook had prepared for them. Sefiwe sent eeme nice viende ever fer ell ef them. “Lediee,“ the heedpman eeid at parting, “ I don't knee'I en eure. What I ehauld have done eitheut year efficient help.“ I Alberta was more than satisfied with her daye work she told me afterward, “No place could have been more exciting, Mrs. Lewrence),*ehe exeleimei! when I eent to register there happened to be no ene present but the peelihg eletke, ee I took my eet beside the eemen in charge ef the beak eherein I erete my name. ene they began te eek me hee eld I was, ehe I eee, what my oecupetien was etc. 4;’! I spoke up and eaie. “he ell sit dawn ene listen and I'll tell yen. *‘ 15. “ I em.eeventy-three years old and the daughter ef Elizabeth @%3y Stanton. flee; can any bf yam tell me'whb ehe wae?MEo. tbf couldn*t; never heard ef her. “Well? I replied. “ehe it was eho, away back in 1848, started all thiSLfHSS ebeut giving wemen the right to vote.” 89 I tbld them.ehe ehe wee. ell abeut thet firet can-I acer end ventien; end of her answer to Horace Greeley, then as editor of the N. Y. Tribune. Mbther was talking wamen suffrage ta hie, he locked at her and saié, “Ere. Stanton. don't you knew that the ballet and bgllgfi ge te~gether? Are you ready to fight?“ “Yes, er. Greeley.“ she prbmptly replied."I’ll fight just as yeu fought in the late War ef the Rebellion by sending my 3aid.subetitute!“ In the war of 1861-1865 all yen had to de was to pay a man $500.00 end he would ge and fight fer you. They were called “Three-hundredndoller men? They all laughed heartily at that, end seemed much inn terested in all I had told them. I remember that before I went te the polls for tbe first 'tiee. my sister. Mrs. Bleteh ehawed me haw ta feld my ballot, Centinued 14. end egg it must be felded that way, eo that he one eeuld epen it and peep in and see hee it was marked. and change it if thy wished. Lo! dn going te the polls that day I see that all the ballets eere folded wrong. I at ence eent ta the head- man and beth-teld him and ehoeed him haw they must be folded. and he had to have them.al1 done ever! hire. Bleteeh '51 me that the way the ballots are famed ie the proper way te fold table-elethe. then ell the creases will he on top when the clcth ie laid on the table. Hence hacks better. V I eonder if the men get the idea frem seeing their eivee iren and feld their table iinen properly? ewho knees?
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<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...
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.Ð 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<h; 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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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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they would like nothing Better than to seeihrs. $tenton:meke cake; that they haénfit dreamed she couloi So I escorted them to the dining-room, and there eatzey mother in a block satin gown with soft laces at her throg xhendfehite silk shawl about her shoulders, her hair beautifully dressed; the onlyE§§%denoe of work was her large epron with its bib, carefully protecting all this elegance. She always dressed her- self thus on arising for an eight o’olook breehfejazihenoe, looked as if she had...
Show morethey would like nothing Better than to seeihrs. $tenton:meke cake; that they haénfit dreamed she couloi So I escorted them to the dining-room, and there eatzey mother in a block satin gown with soft laces at her throg xhendfehite silk shawl about her shoulders, her hair beautifully dressed; the onlyE§§%denoe of work was her large epron with its bib, carefully protecting all this elegance. She always dressed her- self thus on arising for an eight o’olook breehfejazihenoe, looked as if she had just ‘ . £é‘%t—oz.; . jumped out of a band box, at any hour of the day o§{l . C/L As we all sat around the dining table and chatted, We had a merry time. One of the young men came from.the sogth. he said he hadn't had such a good time since he last saw his mother making cake, and then she hedmollowed him to lick the spooni So Kother at once handed him the large wooden spoon, and gave the bowl to the other boy to extract from.it what goodness he could find with his forefihgeri hhile they'were talking, she had quietly directed the cook to bake some little cakes in patty~pane and had herself spread the thick layer of orange frosting over them. when they were finished, she presented two to each of the youngzmen. You can imagine their éelighte She was very fond of reporters, both men and women. She always received them raoiousl* and .ave them an interview no:metter if she had to be awakened J 5 ‘W6, A‘ from.a hep to do 30. She considered it a moot valuable way in which to get her ideas before the public. ‘fie teased her a good deal about the fact that no matter what the suhject‘wae on which they came to interview'her, she always got in some woros on her pet hobbies. At her funeral it'wae a touching sight to see the youhgzmen eod women report- ere with bowed heads, tears streaming down their faces; they naitzad they had lost one of their beet friends. Egg Age. Va Eh mother’s was a remarkable old age. Radiant health had heen her portion through life, and the radiance of her spirit, as her life drew to ite close, was a rare 2% anfi beautiful thing. She was agmost dalightful parson ta 1ive‘with3 ~ during the last eleven years 1 wag her hsusfikeaparg w as full cf fun and marrimantfi so apprasiative mf all that Wafi date for her. She teak at interest in everything that want an, was aiwys busy§ always ready to do aything, go anywhere. She played all her old p§.ez':§e:-3 an the ggiazm ::3.fi»:f}. sang; Q thra songs ‘of her youth t“*e‘a‘i<3:3 evary C3.;‘.3o::\:f5 zzzarnizzg and evening her enumciation‘was perfect: she took drives in Central Park and up Riversiée Brita several timfis a week. She made us orange and spcnge cake, and her ginger bread was so soft and delicious that it malted in your;mouth: Sha told us gtaries of her ehildhocd and yauth, and related anecdotas bf her travels in the far west. She liked all new‘ideas. The bicycle and the telephone had just cage in, and tha autqmabi1e'was being talked of; unlike many people of the older ganer~ atien, she‘was keenly interested by al; these things and tolerant of tham¢~ never antau .544 / 4zAwu¢4L.4é§%;t¢Z£7«44?%£&j:;g%;: gonizea bzr t‘:1em . C:z:,“%L 1" as ,t 44% . V a,,o%«§"'"“ - In contrast to'Mother, who was always serane,; I was inclined to let things WBF?y me. Sue evaning"when I retired, I found this rhyme under my pillow} "Take example of the roses, That live alone on sun and dew, They never trouble about *Eoses, And why in Heavan‘s name should you?“ 26 ”;etIfiosas represent all those things that give you the blues." * mother had a‘W@y of putting little notes about her children’s raoms than she wished to give them some advice. She herself had passed through troutled wttars, but she never let her thoughts dwell on the dark side of life. She was indeed a philosopher; it had been the habit of a life time, that if anything worriafi bar she wvulfi lie dawn, take a nap, and arise refreshed and with a naw outloaki . firs. Stanton‘s fippaarange. fly mother was a charming wqman socially and'was the centre of a large cirsla of frieds. Her crcwn of exquisits whii@7hair was always carefully dragged, and by her own.hand, and was so striking that some_one said, “it gave her the distinctimn ané dignity of a queen.”..a...¢. “Every detail of her dressgwas full of beauty. She was ef medium heighfifi and had beautiful hands and feet. Her presence was such that it called ferth remark and praise wherever she went . .... She was a person grasiaus . -_.. » ,, Q of mannsr, soft of voiae, ~,§gg¢;w]w~~~ 7 :py“, wrote a frlfiflda She'was a person of prcfound symnathies, Wide culture and knvwledge, and of marked intellectual abilw C‘ 1fiy,“’wrate a distinguished man. ogocooiifitlctciooiolioooboieo _ «z%L$ww&$&4fi%*~_ . Fiotura of EH9 at her . . table in 94£h St. . . Taken 2;Weeks before . . she died. . I O . . .O9COOOOO§OIOOOClIOOO.500COCO Her Last Days. The last few years of her life %other‘s eyesight Waé grdwing dim, but, with¢ the aid cf a secretary and her children, she kept fully abreast of the times and went on'with her literary work; forged thunder bolts, and sent them.forth, thai kept ta aifiy, state and nation vitally awake to the great purposes which always animatad her. Sha naver referred to her affliction; and was as brave as a lien about ii. @hen‘within fiWO'W86kS of 87, and her death, she said ta a reporter; "Lifa haé been a gerpetual joy totme, and with the opening of each day I gs about my duties wfith renewed zeal and enthusiasm. I shall never put aside Hg wnrk:whi1e I have life and strength ta continue it." Es her secretary read the papers to her each day, she would say} fifiark that with a blue pencil and we'll answer it later on.“ when the newspapers ware finishedfi affiwnuld go protests on this, tkat, and the other thing ts The SEfl£ The Trihne, The Evening Post: The fiCman’s Journagx and The Chicago Interwoceggf s!".=r\' "l'5’£<'v.rw‘- A >$‘|l':«&9 2% gtuufeaoh article had a humorous twist to it, Her sense of humor was e:merkefl oherecterw istie through life, is the end of October, 1902 epproeohed,ifiother'was engaged in preparing e letter to Fresident Roosevelt, ~ who, just at this time was writing his annual- messege to Congress, asking him to put in a clause for women suffrage. This 1et~ ter ieigine and clear that I cannot refrain from.quoting it. New York, October 22, 1902. Hot} Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States Dear Sir: As you are the first President of the United States who has ever given a public opinion in favor of women suffrage, and, when Governor of New York State, recommended the measure in ezmessage to the Legislature, the members of the different suffrage associations in the United States now urge you to advocate, in your coming message to Congress, an amendment to the National Constitution for the enfrenehisement of the thirty~six million American women, now denied their most sacred right as citizens of a Republic. In the beginning of our nation, the fathers declared that “no just govern- «I ment can be founded'Without the consent of the governed", and that taxation without representation is tyremhy." Both of these grand declarations are denied in the present position of semen, who eensitute; one~helf of the people.g& "political pewer inheres in the people“ ~ and eoeen are surely people ~ then there is a crying need for an amendment to the Eetionel 3onstitution,fmeking these fundamental principles verities. Surely there we e do greater moopoly ther.thet of all men denying to all women s voice in the laws they ere compelled to obey. Abraham Lincoln.immorte1ized_himself by the emancipation of fourzmillion southern slaves. Speaking fer my suffrage ooedjutors, we now desire that you, Er. PT@3id@fl@a'Whc are already celebrated for so many honorable deeds and worthy utter» aficfifig i$m0?ta1ize yourself by brimgingebout our complete emancipation from.the 2? olavooy of the poot. ‘with best wishes for your oontinuod honorablo ooroor and rowolootion as Frooiaont of the United Statosg 1-‘: Sn Gotobor 2o’~ it was Saturday afternoon, ~ Mother and ho? soorotary oro busy at her desk in the corner by the oindow overlooking the Hudson River and tho Palisades beyond. They were working on a letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, when suddenly the room was invaded by her four sons and two daughters. Theodore'Was in How York from.Paris, andférs. Blatoh from.England. After greetings and kisses had boon oxohangofi, Kathe? calmly went on with her work; her powers of concentration wore so oxtraordinary, that We did not disturb her in the least with all our laughing and talking. COCOIODICOOOO‘O§OIIIIOOQO.ICCIOIOIOQ Picture of her corner at 94th Street. I t 9 C I 0 1 I OQ QC 0 COCOOJIIOOIOCCOOOOOOO-l»DOIQIISUUQOCIQO Finally one brother oxolaimod, ” Oh} Eothor, do stop working and talk to no,” But it was not until the letter tofifirs. Boosovolt'was finishod to her satisfaction that she turned in her ohair, and soon booamo tho life of tho pafty. Friends c~oo ig hotor for dinnor and spout the ovoning. The next day, Sunday oho arooo as usual and drossofifi but said she did not feel vory W811-SO sho sat; duo- ing all the morning, in her high-booked armchair. fie oallod tho dootor but he sai thoro was nothing ho could do; She had always hopod she would not have an illness at the end of oor days, she had mover boon really ill; wondorful health had boon boo portion. at three o’o1ook ifl fihfi afiayflflan ""‘ Aj./4»,,,£%.7“*/,/2.44. ~ a:,4..¢._ .44.-—4~ Q14. .3 28 the maahimary in th@'G1S$k ran dawn, and the quietly sliypad awwyi we mama Of at etulé raaliza it, it was all SS sudden. Sha had gsnt just as aha hapefl she wtuld. Her last ‘W0 1%: on txartah was far t,3:1»s:.> tr0:s‘:2a3n % this natian: the Easst dram;-= watts she sign@d'Were apyaals far their benefit. On October 25th, the day she diaé, there appaarefl in the New York American a signed article on tha editsrial pages which she had dictated the day before to a member of the staff of ih¢?§a§5r’ making a plea for justice an& liberty for'womem. The Ineffaceable Record. She it was who first asked for the ballot for wcmen in America, she was the first to strive for an amendment to the Sonstitution of the United States. “She helped to secure property rights for:married women, rights to their wages, equal guard» ianship laws. She was active in securing for women a tedical education, and by her speaches and writings in the leading magazines of the country she was instrumental in revising the divorce laws of the different state?/and in freeing us frtm many of the religious superstitions of her day",'writes her daughter firs. Blatch, In short, we of our genaration owe an enermous debt - for the things We enjoy to the ability and se1f~sacrifice of my mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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