Chapter XIX A Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment
327 Ms., Diary, June 18, 1876.
328 Katherine D. Blake and Margaret Wallace, Champion of Women, The Life of Lillie Devereux Blake (New York, 1943), pp. 124-126.
329 History of Woman Suffrage, III, pp. 31, 34. The Woman’s Journal surprised Susan with a friendly editorial, “Good Use of the Fourth of July,” written by Lucy Stone, July 15, 1876.
330 History of Woman Suffrage, III, p. 43. The Philadelphia Press praised the Declaration of Rights and the women in the suffrage movement. The report of the New York Post was patronizingly favorable, pointing out the indifference of the public to the subject.
331 Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 485-486.
332 Ms., Susan B. Anthony Papers, Library of Congress.
333 This amendment was re-introduced in the same form in every succeeding Congress until it was finally passed in 1919 as the Nineteenth Amendment. It was ratified by the states in 1920, 14 years after Susan B. Anthony’s death. When occasionally during her lifetime it was called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment by those who wished to honor her devotion to the cause, she protested, meticulously giving Elizabeth Cady Stanton credit for making the first public demand for woman suffrage in 1848. She also made it clear that although she worked for the amendment long and hard, she did not draft it. After her death, during the climax of the woman suffrage campaign, these facts were overlooked by the younger workers who made a point of featuring the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, both because they wished to immortalize her and because they realized the publicity value of her name.
334 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 484.
335 History of Woman Suffrage, III, p. 66.
336 Harper, Anthony, II, p. 544.
337 History of Woman Suffrage, III, p. 153; II, pp. 3-12, 863-868; Sarah Ellen Blackwell, A Military Genius, Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland (Washington, D.C., 1891), I, pp. 153-154.
338 “Woman Suffrage as a Means of Moral Improvement and the Prevention of Crime” by Alexander Dumas, History of Woman Suffrage, III, p. 190. Theodore Stanton, foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune, now lived in Paris.