Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... ELIZABETH SMITH MILLER, "JULIUS" LUCRETIA MOTT Bust by Adelaide Johnson [Sec chap. X, vol. 1 HANDS OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AND SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 1895 SUFFRAGE FRIENDSHIPS week must be confined to hard work, dressed in dark calico and a napkin on my brow. Oh, cruel fate! This week when I was to tune my voice to music and friendship, I have now to school my tongue to stern command, to marshal plumbers, painters, whitewashers, and scrubbers up and down four flights of stairs. I try to show a saintly patience, but I really do feel like the very devil! Everybody has something of this evil genius in him that will come out in one way or another. But my devilishness is spasmodic, and though I did feel yesterday ready to curse God and die, to-day, as I sit alone in my sister s parlor-- I am staying with Tryphena until my house is in order--reading the Life of Milton, my mountains of trouble have little by little dwindled to sand hills. So write often to your disappointed Johnson. To Susan B. Anthony. New York, September 10, 1865. Dearly Beloved, --Of course your critics take no note of all you have been to me, though I have often told them what a stimulus and inspiration you were through years of domestic cares. But while I shall always be happy to write for you whatever document you desire, I am not willing to be bullied when I honestly differ from you in opinion, as I do in the matter you mention. Well, the human family is affording you abundant experience in the degradation of women; their littleness and meanness are the result of their abject dependence, their utter want of self-respect. But this must needs be so until they reach a higher development. Poor things! How can they be frank and magnanimous in view of their education? So let us...