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.