The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) eBook

Ida Husted Harper
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 732 pages of information about The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2).

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) eBook

Ida Husted Harper
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 732 pages of information about The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2).
of Mr. Train with the woman suffrage movement.  Miss Anthony was made to realize to the fullest extent the feeling which had been aroused, but the last entry in the diary says:  “The year goes out, and never did one depart that had been so filled with earnest and effective work; 9,000 votes for woman in Kansas, and a newspaper started!  The Revolution is going to be work, work and more work.  The old out and the new in!”

[Footnote 40:  Helen Skin Starrett, in her Kansas reminiscences, says:  “Miss Anthony always looked after Mrs. Stanton’s interests and comfort in the most cheerful and kindly manner.  I remember one evening in Lawrence when the hall was crowded with an eager and expectant audience.  Miss Anthony was there early, looking after everything, seats, lights, ushers, doorkeepers.  Presently Governor Robinson said to her, ‘Where’s Mrs. Stanton?  It’s time to commence.’  ’She’s at Mrs.——­’s waiting for some of you men to go for her with a carriage,’ was the reply.  The hint was quickly acted upon and Mrs. Stanton, fresh, smiling and unfatigued, was presented to the audience.”]

[Footnote 41:  His intense feeling on the matter is thus described in the History of Woman Suffrage: 

“A few weeks after this he met Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony at one of Alice Cary’s Sunday evening receptions.  As he approached, both arose and with extended hands exclaimed most cordially, ’Good evening, Mr. Greeley.’  But his hands hung limp by his side, as he said in measured tones:  ’You two ladies are the most maneuvering politicians in the State of New York.  I saw in the manner my wife’s petition was presented, that Mr. Curtis was acting under instructions, and I saw the reporters prick up their ears.’  Turning to Mrs. Stanton, he asked, ’You are so tenacious about your own name, why did you not inscribe my wife’s maiden name, Mary Cheney Greeley, on her petition?’ ‘Because,’ she replied, ’I wanted all the world to know that it was the wife of Horace Greeley who protested against her husband’s report.’  ‘Well,’ said he, ’I understand the animus of that whole proceeding, and I have given positive instructions that no word of praise shall ever again be awarded you in the Tribune, and that if your name is ever necessarily mentioned, it shall be as Mrs. Henry B. Stanton!’ And so it has been to this day.”]

[Footnote 42:  Womanhood suffrage is now a progressive cause beyond fear of cavil.  It has won a fair field where once it was looked upon as an airy nothing, and it has gained champions and converts without number.  The young State of Kansas is fitly the vanguard of this cause, and the signs of the agitation therein hardly allow a doubt that the citizenship of women will be ere long recognized in its laws.  Fourteen out of twenty of its newspapers are in favor of making woman a voter....  The vitality of the Kansas movement is indisputable, and whether defeated or successful in the present contest, it will still hold strongly fortified ground.—­New York Tribune, May 29, 1867.]

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