CHAPTER VIII — A WAR FOR FREEDOM
[134] Garrisons, Garrison, IV, pp. 30-31.
[135] Lydia Mott to W. L. Garrison, May 8, 1861, Boston Public Library; Stanton and Blatch, Stanton, II, p. 89.
[136] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 215.
[137] Ibid., p. 216. Harriet Tubman, a fugitive slave, was often called the Moses of her people because she led so many of them into the promised land of freedom.
[138] Ibid.
[139] Ibid., p. 198.
[140] Anna E. Dickinson was born in Philadelphia in 1842. The death of her father, two years later, left the family in straightened circumstances, and Anna, after attending a Friends school, began very early to support herself by copying in lawyers' offices and by working at the U.S. Mint. Speaking extemporaneously at Friends and antislavery meetings, she discovered she had a gift for oratory and was soon in demand as a speaker.
[141] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 219.
[142] April, 1862. History of Woman Suffrage, I, p. 748.
[143] Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 218, 222.
[144] Emancipation, the Duty of Government, Ms., Lucy E. Anthony Collection. Reading that General Grant had returned 13 slaves to their masters, an indignant Susan B. Anthony wrote Mrs. Stanton, "Such gratuitous outrage should be met with instant death—without judge or jury—if any offense may." Feb. 27, 1862, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
[145] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 221.
[146] Jan. 24, 1904, Anna Dann Mason Collection.
[147] Harper, Anthony, p. 226.
[148] The first woman in the United States to obtain a medical degree, 1849.
[149] History of Woman Suffrage, II, pp. 57-58.
[150] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 230. Members of the Women's National Loyal League wore a silver pin showing a slave breaking his last chains and bearing the inscription, "In emancipation is national unity." Susan B. Anthony to Mrs. Drake, Sept. 18, 1863, Alma Lutz Collection.
[151] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 234.
[152] Ibid., To Samuel May, Jr., Sept. 21, 1863, Alma Lutz Collection.
[153] April 14, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress.
[154] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 230.
[155] June 12, 1864, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, July 1, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. About this time, a friend of Susan B. Anthony's youth, now a widower living in Ohio in comfortable circumstances, unsuccessfully urged her to marry him.
[156] Sept. 23, 1864, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
[157] Stanton and Blatch, Stanton, II, pp. 103-104.
[158] March 14, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress.