u, 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 Eliz