Chapter IX The Negro’s Hour
159 Daniel R. Anthony married Anna Osborne of Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, in 1864.
160 Before buying the house on Madison Street, then numbered 7, Mrs. Anthony and Mary lived for a time at 69 North Street, Rochester. Hannah and Eugene Mosher bought the adjoining house on Madison Street in 1866. Aaron McLean took over his father-in-law’s profitable insurance business.
161 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 241.
162 Feb. 14, 1865, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
163 Ms., Diary, April 27, 1862.
164 Feb. 14, 1862, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
165 Ibid.
166 Ibid., April 19, 1862.
167 Ms., Diary, April 26, 27, 1865.
168 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 245.
169 The Liberator ceased publication, Dec. 29, 1865.
170 Ms., Diary, June 30, July 3, 1865.
171 Harper, Anthony, II, pp. 960-967.
172 Stanton and Blatch, Stanton, II, p. 105.
173 Ibid.; Harper, Anthony, I, p. 244.
174 Ms., Diary, Aug. 7, Sept. 5, 20, 1865.
175 Ibid., Nov. 26-27, 1865.
176 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 251.
177 History of Woman Suffrage, II, pp. 96-97.
178 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 260.
179 Ibid., pp. 261, 323.
180 History of Woman Suffrage, II, pp. 322-324. One of Thaddeus Stevens’ drafts read: “If any State shall disfranchise any of its citizens on account of color, all that class shall be counted out of the basis of representation.” Then the question arose whether or not disfranchising Negro women would carry this penalty and the result was a rewording which struck out “color” and added “male.”
181 Beards, The Rise of American Civilization, II, pp. 111-112; Joseph B. James, The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment (Urbana, Ill., 1956), pp. 59, 166, 196-200.
182 History of Woman Suffrage, II, p. 103. Senator Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island, Susan B. Anthony’s cousin, spoke and voted for woman suffrage.
183 Ibid., p. 101. The New York Post, which had been friendly to woman suffrage under the editorship of William Cullen Bryant, now came out against it.
184 John Albree, Editor, Whittier Correspondence from Oakknoll (Salem, Mass., 1911), p. 158. Frances D. Gage of Ohio, Caroline H. Dall of Massachusetts, and Clarina Nichols of Kansas also supported woman suffrage at this time.