of the
noble Francis Jackson, but by Jerome Bacon, a millionaire, the
widower of her eldest daughter who survived the mother but one
week. When the suit was entered the daughters of Mrs. Eddy, Sarah
and Amy, her only surviving children, in a letter to the executor
of the estate, Hon. C. R. Ransom, said: "We hereby consent and
agree that, in case this suit now pending in the court shall be
decided against the claims of Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony, we
will give to them the net amount of any sum that as heirs may be
awarded to us, in accordance with our mother's will."

CHAPTER XXXII.

CONNECTICUT.

Prudence Crandall--Eloquent Reformers--Petitions for
Suffrage--The Committee's Report--Frances Ellen Burr--Isabella
Beecher Hooker's Reminiscences--Anna Dickinson in the Republican
Campaign--State Society Formed, October 28, 29,
1869--Enthusiastic Convention in Hartford--Governor Marshall
Jewell--He Recommends More Liberal Laws for Women--Society Formed
in New Haven, 1871--Governor Hubbard's Inaugural, 1877--Samuel
Bowles of the _Springfield Republican_--Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford,
Chaplain, 1870--John Hooker, esq., Champions the Suffrage
Movement.

While Connecticut has always been celebrated for its puritanical
theology, political conservatism and rigid social customs, it was
nevertheless the scene of some of the most hotly contested of the
anti-slavery battles. While its leading clergymen and statesmen
stoutly maintained the letter of the old creeds and constitutions,
the Burleighs, the Mays, and the Crandalls strove to illustrate the
true spirit of religion and republicanism in their daily lives by
"remembering those that were in bonds as bound with them."

The example of one glorious woman like Prudence Crandall,[158] who
suffered shameful persecutions in establishing a school for colored
girls at Canterbury, in 1833, should have been sufficient to rouse
every woman in Connecticut to some thought on the basic principles
of the government and religion of the country. Yet we have no
record of any woman in that State publicly sustaining her in that
grand enterprise, though no doubt her heroism gave fresh
inspiration to the sermons of Samuel J. May, then preaching in the
village of Brooklyn, and the speeches and poems of the two eloquent
reformers, Charles C. and William H. Burleigh. The words and deeds
of these and other great souls, though seeming to slumber f