founding the Freedmen’s Bureau, which played so valuable a part in the help and protection of the newly emancipated negroes.  Who of all the public speakers rendered greater aid to the Union than the inspired Anna Dickinson?  Yet not one of these ever received the slightest official recognition from the government.  In the cases of Miss Carroll, Dr. Blackwell and Mrs. Griffing, the honors and the profits all were absorbed by men.  Neither Dorothea Dix nor Clara Barton ever asked for a pension.  All of these women at the close of the war appealed for the right of suffrage, a voice in the affairs of government; but such appeals were and still are treated with contemptuous denial.  The situation was thus eloquently summed up by that woman statesman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: 

The lessons of the war were not lost on the women of this nation; through varied forms of suffering and humiliation, they learned that they had an equal interest with men in the administration of the government, alike enjoying its blessings or enduring its miseries.  When in the enfranchisement of the black men they saw another ignorant class of voters placed above their heads, and beheld the danger of a distinctively “male” government, forever involving the nations of the earth in war and violence; and demanded for the protection of themselves and children, that woman’s voice should be heard and her opinions in public affairs be expressed by the ballot, they were coolly told that the black man had earned the right to vote, that he had fought and bled and died for his country.

[Footnote 32:  See Appendix for this address.]

[Footnote 33:  She was assisted from time to time by Mrs. Stanton, Lucy Stone, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Dr. Clemence S. Lozier, Mary F. Gilbert, Frances V. Hallock, Mattie Griffith (Brown), Rebecca Shepard (Putnam), and Frances M. Russell, all donating their services.  The bookkeeper and the clerks were paid small salaries from the office receipts.]

CHAPTER XV.

“MALE” IN THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.

1865.

Soon after closing the league headquarters, Miss Anthony went to Auburn to attend the wedding of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Jr., and Ellen, daughter of her dear friend Martha C. Wright and niece of Lucretia Mott, a union of two families very acceptable to the friends of both.  From this scene of festivity she returned home to meet a fresh sorrow in the sudden death, almost at the hour of her arrival, of Ann Eliza, daughter of her eldest sister Guelma and Aaron McLean, the best beloved of all her nieces.  She was twenty-three years old, beautiful and talented, a good musician and an artist of fine promise.  In her Miss Anthony had centered many hopes and ambitions, and the letters show that she was always planning and working for her future as she would have done for that of a cherished daughter.  She was laid to rest on the silver wedding anniversary of her parents.  Miss Anthony writes:  “She had ceased to be a child and had become the fullgrown woman, my companion and friend.  I loved her merry laugh, her bright, joyous presence, and yet my loss is so small compared to the awful void in her mother’s life that I scarcely dare mention it.”