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Title: The life and work of Susan B. Anthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
Subjects: Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906.
Publisher: Indianapolis and Kansas City, The Bowen-Merrill company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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r own speaker, which you ought to have doneyears ago instead of always pushing others to the front andtaking the drudgery yourself. Miss Anthony was very suc-cessful, each day gaining more courage. Her sole theme wasEmancipation the Duty of the Government. A prominentcitizen of Schuyler county wrote her after she had spoken atMecklinburg: There is not a man among all the p61iticalspeakers who can make that duty as plain as you have done.Her whole heart was in the work and she was constantlyinspired by the thought that the day of deliverance for theslave was approaching. At the height of her enthusiasm came the heaviest blow itwould have been possible for her to receive. She had comehome for a few days, and the Sunday morning after election A few years after the war, Miss Anthony chancing to be in Binghamton at the time of ateachers convention went in. Immediately the whole body rose to give her welcome, shewas escorted to the platform and, amid great applause, invited to address them.
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o X f- 2 < ad z < CODCO O a: X h<o Q2 < LUX < MOB EXPERIENCE CIVIL WAR. 223 was sitting with her father talking over the political situation.They had been reading the Liberator and the Anti-SlaveryStandard and were discussing the probable effect of Lincolnsproclamation, when suddenly he was stricken with acuteneuralgia of the stomach. He had not had a days illness inforty years and had not the slightest premonition of thisattack. He lingered in great suffering for two weeks and diedon November 25, 1862. No words can express the terrible bereavement of his family.He had been to them a tower of strength. From childhood hissons and daughters had carried to him every grief and perplex-ity and there never had been a matter concerning them too trivialto receive his careful attention. In manhood and womanhoodthey still had turned to him above all others for advice andcomfort, even the grandchildren receiving always the sameloving care. Between husband and wife there ever had b

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