as been given the
charm which compels all men, willing or unwilling, to listen when he
speaks ... Mr. Phillips used to say, 'take your part with the perfect
and abstract right, and trust God to see that it shall prove
expedient.' Now he needs someone to help him see that point
again."[184]
FOOTNOTES:
[159] Daniel R. Anthony married Anna Osborne of Edgartown, Martha's
Vineyard, in 1864.
[160] Before buying the house on Madison Street, then numbered 7, Mrs.
Anthony and Mary lived for a time at 69 North Street, Rochester.
Hannah and Eugene Mosher bought the adjoining house on Madison Street
in 1866. Aaron McLean took over his father-in-law's profitable
insurance business.
[161] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 241.
[162] Feb. 14, 1865, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of
Congress.
[163] Ms., Diary, April 27, 1862.
[164] Feb. 14, 1862, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of
Congress.
[165] _Ibid._
[166] _Ibid._, April 19, 1862.
[167] Ms., Diary, April 26, 27, 1865.
[168] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 245.
[169] The _Liberator_ ceased publication, Dec. 29, 1865.
[170] Ms., Diary, June 30, July 3, 1865.
[171] Harper, _Anthony_, II, pp. 960-967.
[172] Stanton and Blatch, _Stanton_, II, p. 105.
[173] _Ibid._; Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 244.
[174] Ms., Diary, Aug. 7, Sept. 5, 20, 1865.
[175] _Ibid._, Nov. 26-27, 1865.
[176] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 251.
[177] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, pp. 96-97.
[178] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 260.
[179] _Ibid._, pp. 261, 323.
[180] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, pp. 322-324. One of Thaddeus
Stevens' drafts read: "If any State shall disfranchise any of its
citizens on account of color, all that class shall be counted out of
the basis of representation." Then the question arose whether or not
disfranchising Negro women would carry this penalty and the result was
a rewording which struck out "color" and added "male."
[181] Beards, _The Rise of American Civilization_, II, pp. 111-112;
Joseph B. James, _The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment_ (Urbana,
Ill., 1956), pp. 59, 166, 196-200.
[182] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, p. 103. Senator Henry B.
Anthony of Rhode Island, Susan B. Anthony's cousin, spoke and voted
for woman suffrage.
[183] _Ibid._, p. 101. The New York _Post_, which had been friendly to
woman suffrage under the editorship of William Cullen Bryant, now came
out against it.
[184] John Albree, Editor, _Whittier Co
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