CHAPTER XV — A NEW SLANT ON THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

[262] A former Congressman from Ohio, a personal friend of Senator Benjamin Wade who was a loyal friend of woman suffrage.

[263] The Revolution, V, March 19, 1870, pp. 154-155, 159.

[264] Clipping from Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, Susan B. Anthony Scrapbook, Library of Congress.

[265] Emanie, Sachs, The Terrible Siren (New York, 1928), p. 87. After hearing Victoria Woodhull speak at a woman suffrage meeting in Philadelphia, Lucretia Mott wrote her daughters, March 21, 1871, "I wish you could have heard Mrs. Woodhull ... so earnest yet modest and dignified, and so full of faith that she is divinely inspired for her work. The 30 or 40 persons present were much impressed with her work and beautiful utterances." Garrison Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.

[266] May 20, 1871, Ida Husted Harper Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library.

[267] The Golden Age, Dec., 1871.

[268] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 388.

[269] Ibid., pp. 389-390.

[270] Ibid., pp. 391-394. Laura Fair, who reportedly had been the mistress of Alexander P. Crittenden for six years, was acquitted of his murder on the grounds that his death was not due to her pistol shot but to a disease from which he was suffering. Julia Cooley Altrocchi, The Spectacular San Franciscans (New York, 1949).

[271] Ms., Diary, July 13-23, 1871.

[272] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 396.

[273] Ibid.

[274] Ms., Diary, Oct. 13, 1871.

[275] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 403.

[276] Ms., Diary, Dec. 15, 1871.

[277] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 396.

[278] Ms., Diary, Jan. 2, 1872.

[279] Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, Jan. 23, 1873.

[280] Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 410-411.

[281] Ibid., p. 413.

[282] Ms., Diary, May 8, 10, 12, 1872.

[283] Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 416-417.

[284] Ms., Diary, Sept. 21, 1872. Lucy Stone wrote in the Woman's Journal, July 27, 1872, "We are glad that the wing of the movement to which these ladies belong have decided to cast in their lot with the Republican party. If they had done so sooner, it would have been better for all concerned...."

[285] History of Woman Suffrage, II, p. 519. The Republicans financed a paper, Woman's Campaign, edited by Helen Barnard, which published some of Susan's speeches and which Susan for a time hoped to convert into a woman suffrage paper.

[286] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 422.

[287] Ibid.