The life and work of Susan B. Anthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years (1898) (14778012651)

Identifier: lifeworkofsusanb01harp (find matches)
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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the decision ofthe highest court of appeal. They then returned to the workof petitioning Congress for a Sixteenth Amendment to theNational Constitution which should prohibit disfranchisementon account of sex. They continued also the original plan ofendeavoring to secure amendments to the constitutions of thedifferent States abolishing the word male as a qualificationfor voting.^ Bitterly disappointed at the decision of theSupreme Court, it was nevertheless a source of pride to thewomen that they had made their claim for representation inthe government, carried it to the highest tribunal and gonedown in honorable defeat. Miss Anthony never hesitated to ask the most distinguishedmen to speak on the woman suffrage platform, and HenryWilson writes from the chamber of the Vice-President hisregrets that he can not accept her invitation. Benjamin F.Butler replies: As a rule I have refused to take part in any This has been accomplished (1897) iu four States, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho.
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J (n^-x^i l/\ Vi^^ O^-Q Ci-T^^ C<^c=:^. t^/^^^VV- NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO JURY OR FRANCHISE. 455 convention in the District of Columbia about any matter whichmight come before Congress. I have gone farther out of myway in that regard in the matter of woman suffrage than inany other. Having given evidence that I am most strongly-committed to the legality, propriety and justice of grantingthe ballot to woman, I do not see how I can add anything toit. Hoping that your cause may succeed, I have the honor tobe, very truly yours. Her cousin, Elbridge G. Lapham, M. C, of New York, saysin a letter: I am persuaded the time is fast hastening whenwoman will be accorded the exercise of the right your associa-tion demands. With that secured, many other advantages,now denied, will surely and speedily follow. I can see novalid objection to the right of suffrage being conferred, whilethere are many and very cogent reasons in favor of it. As hasbeen said, you may go on election day to the most d