[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.