CHAPTER VII — THE ZEALOT
[109] History of Woman Suffrage, I. p. 689. Henry Ward Beecher's speech, The Public Function of Women, delivered at Cooper Union, Feb. 2, 1860, was widely distributed as a tract.
[110] April 16, 1860, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
[111] June 16, 1857, Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection.
[112] History of Woman Suffrage, I, p. 717.
[113] Ibid., p. 725.
[114] Ibid., p. 732.
[115] Ibid., p. 735.
[116] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 196.
[117] Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More (New York, 1898), p. 219. Samuel Longfellow whispered to Mrs. Stanton in the midst of the debate, "Nevertheless you are right and the convention will sustain you."
[118] Harper, Anthony, I. p. 195.
[119] Ibid., p. 197.
[120] Aug. 25, 1860, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Vassar College Library.
[121] Charles Sumner was the First prominent statesman to speak for emancipation, Oct., 1861, at the Massachusetts Republican Convention.
[122] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 198.
[123] Ms., Susan B. Anthony Papers, Library of Congress.
[124] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 198.
[125] Garrisons, Garrison, III, p. 504; Beards, The Rise of American Civilization, II, p. 63.
[126] Garrisons, Garrison, III, p. 508.
[127] Jan. 18, 1861, Antislavery Papers, Boston Public Library.
[128] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 210.
[129] Susan B. Anthony Scrapbook, 1861, Library of Congress.
[130] Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, The War Years (New York, 1939), I, p. 125.
[131] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 202. Mrs. Phelps later found a more permanent home with the author, Elizabeth Ellet.
[132] Ibid., pp. 203-204.
[133] Ibid., p. 198.