(1867.), 271-294
Canvass of New York to secure Woman Suffrage Amendment to new State
Constitution; scurrilous comment of Buffalo Commercial; praise of Troy
Times; Miss Anthony rebukes selfish woman; always assumes the drudgery;
Beecher can not work in organizations; Lucy Stone's letters from Kansas
on action of Republicans; Beecher's speech in New York on Woman
Suffrage; Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton prepare Memorial to Congress;
Miss Anthony and Greeley break lances at Albany; Curtis stands by the
women; Mrs. Greeley's petition used to checkmate her husband; Anna
Dickinson's indignation; Kansas Republican Committee fights Woman
Suffrage; Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton go to Kansas; hardships of the
campaign; Mrs. Starrett's description of Miss Anthony; negroes oppose
woman suffrage; George Francis Train comes to the rescue; Suffrage
Amendment defeated; Leavenworth Commercial pays tribute; Miss Anthony,
Mrs. Stanton and Mr. Train make lecture tour from Omaha to Boston;
persecution by former friends.
CHAPTER XVIII.
ESTABLISHING THE REVOLUTION. (1868.), 295-311
Mr. Train and David M. Melliss furnish funds for starting Woman
Suffrage newspaper, The Revolution; comments of press; Mr. Train in
Dublin jail; Mrs. Stanton defends The Revolution; how women were
sacrificed; bright description of paper and editors; Equal Rights
Association divided between claims of woman and negro; Miss Anthony and
Mrs. Stanton delegates to Democratic National Convention at Tammany
Hall; their reception; Miss Anthony represents Workingwomen's
Association at National Labor Congress in New York; her suffrage
resolution rejected; her advice to women typesetters; sad case of
Hester Vaughan; S. C. Pomeroy and George W. Julian present Woman
Suffrage Amendments in Senate and House of Representatives.
CHAPTER XIX.
AMENDMENT XV--FOUNDING OF NATIONAL SOCIETY. (1869.), 313-336
First National Convention in Washington; colored men object to Woman
Suffrage; first hearing before Congressional Committee; descriptive
letter from Grace Greenwood; Miss Anthony arraigns Republicans at
Chicago; Mrs. Livermore's tribute to Miss Anthony; speech at N.Y. Press
Club on woman's "proposing;" Fifteenth Amendment submitted; criticism
by The Revolution; Train withdraws from paper; Woman's Bureau; letters
from Mrs. Livermore, Anna Dickinson, Gail Hamilton; stormy session of
Equal Rights Association; Miss Anthony's speech against Amendment XV;
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