[Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton]@TWC D-Link bookEighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 CHAPTER XIII 16/24
I am a thousand times obliged to you; you did just right and so did she, and she has been a happier woman ever since.
She now gets what she needs, and frets no more, to me, about ten thousand little things.
How can a man know what implements are necessary for the work he never does? Of all agencies for upsetting the equanimity of family life, none can surpass an old, broken-down kitchen stove!" In the winter of 1861, just after the election of Lincoln, the abolitionists decided to hold a series of conventions in the chief cities of the North.
All their available speakers were pledged for active service.
The Republican party, having absorbed the political abolitionists within its ranks by its declared hostility to the extension of slavery, had come into power with overwhelming majorities. Hence the Garrisonian abolitionists, opposed to all compromises, felt that this was the opportune moment to rouse the people to the necessity of holding that party to its declared principles, and pushing it, if possible, a step or two forward. I was invited to accompany Miss Anthony and Beriah Green to a few points in Central New York.
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