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.