Chapter XXI Impetus From the West
356 Harper, Anthony, II, p. 592.
357 Ibid., p. 658.
358 Miss Anthony first met Frances Willard in 1875 when she lectured in Rochester. Invited to sit on the platform, by her side, she thoughtfully refused, adding “You have a heavy enough load to carry without me.” Harper, Anthony, I, p. 472. When Frances Willard took her stand for woman suffrage in the W.C.T.U. in 1876, Miss Anthony wrote her, “Now you are to go forward. I wish I could see you and make you feel my gladness.” Mary Earhart, Frances Willard (Chicago, 1944), p. 153.
359 During the debate, Frances Willard rendered valuable aid with a petition for woman suffrage, signed by 200,000 women. This counteracted in a measure the protests against woman suffrage by President Eliot of Harvard and 200 New England clergymen.
360 Harper, Anthony, II, pp. 622-623.
361 Ibid., p. 612.
362 So successful was Mrs. Colby’s Washington venture that she continued to publish her Woman’s Tribune there for the next 16 years
363 Harper, Anthony, II, p. 637.
364 Woman’s Tribune, Feb. 22, 1890.
365 The credit for achieving union after two years of patient negotiation goes to Rachel Foster Avery, secretary of the National Association, and to Lucy Stone’s daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, secretary of the American Association.
366 Harper, Anthony, II, p. 675.