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Lockport Apr. 11/67
Dear Mary
Mrs. Stanton ‘s
voice is better to dy [sic] -
We just caught a
glimpse of William
on Cars yesterday -
Learned that P.P was
better & gone over
to Madison street-
- So Mrs. Stanton
sees her chance for
Sunday there is small-
and desires me to say
to you that she will
come to your house
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and hopes that your
mother- Amy Post – will
have the Rochester &
Seneca Falls Woman’s
Rights – Convention
Reports at your house-
and that both you &
your mother may be able
to sit down with her
and make a final Decision
and correction of those docu
ments – I hope you suc
ceded in getting Parker to
the picture gallery- Mrs. S &
I shall stop there Saturday
A.M. when we get into Rochester
( Fox & Gates) – Truly. S. B. Anthony
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First Anniversary
of the
American Equal Rights Association
The first annual meeting of the American Equal Rights
Association will be held in the City of New York, at the Church
of the Puritans, on Thursday and Friday, the ninth and tenth
of May next, commencing on Thursday morning at 10 o’clock.
The object of this Association is to secure Equal Rights
to all American Citizens, especially the Right of Suffrage, irre-
spective of race, color or sex.
American Democracy has interpreted the Declaration of
Independence in the interest of slavery, restricting suffrage and
citizenship to a white, male, minority.
The black man is still denied the crowning right of citizen-
ship, even in the nominally free states, though the fires of civil
war have melted the chains of chattelism, and a hundred battle-
fields attest his courage and patriotism.
Half our population are disfranchised on the ground of sex;
and though compelled to obey the law and taxed to support the
government, they have no voice in the legislation of the country.
This Association then has a mission to perform, the magni-
tude and importance of which cannot be over-estimated.
The recent war has unsettled all our governmental founda-
tions. Let us see that in their restoration, all these unjust
proscriptions are avoided. Let Democracy be defined anew, as
the Government of the people, AND THE WHOLE PEOPLE.
Let the gathering then at this anniversary, be in numbers
and character, worthy in some degree the demands of the house.
The black man, even the black soldier, is yet but half emanci-
pated, nor will he be, until his full suffrage and citizenship are
secured to him in the Federal Constitution. Still more deplora-
able is the condition of the black woman; and legally, that of the
white woman is no better!
Shall the sun of the nineteenth century go down on wrongs
like these, in this nation, consecrated in its infancy to justice
and freedom? Rather let our meeting be pledge as well as
prophecy to the world of mankind, that the redemption of at
least one great nation is near at hand
In behalf of the American Equal Rights Association.
Lucretia Mott, Prez
Susan B. Anthony, Cor. Sec’y
Henry B. Blackwell, Rec. Sec’y
New York, 12th March, 1867
[Communications relating to this Anniversary, and donations in aid
of its objects, to be addressed to Susan B Anthony, 464 West Thirty-
fourth street, New York.]
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The train must get
into R. about 10 A.M.
So Mrs. S. will be
round to dinner -
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Albany Feb. 17. 1867
Dear Friend Amy
I find this en-
velope in my Port- folio [sic]
to day [sic] – ready superscribed [sic]-
as if to remind me I
ought to tell you how
we are getting on with
our meetings- Well, the
very best kind – at Cohoes
Thurs, & Friday nights- Capital metings [sic]
at Herkimer last Mon & Tues. -
splendid- The Ex- Surrogate
and the present Surrogate judges
both gave their good word
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for us- Remond
never did better work-
Louisa Jacobs- who
us ^was^ with us – promises first
best – She is everything
proper & right in matter
and manner – private &
public- It is good
to have two new helpers
and young too – yes and
good looking – Mr. Phillips
writes me he has another
in Boston he wishes to
introduce to me –
Don’t you cry all
Hail to young heroic
Kansas? – How glorious
if she shall now teach
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the nation the one and only way to rebuild
our Union, as she ten years ago taught
it the one and only way out ^of^ Slavery- Do you
see she has submitted to the people
the question of striking both ‘White Male’
from her Constitution-
I have sent Mr. Dewey a package
of Mrs. Stanton’s recent address to put
our sale at his News Rooms- also letters
to Democrat & Express to note the fact –
I hope you & Mary Hallowell will
both plan to go to N. J. to the May meetings
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-there will be earnest work to be done
there- and every one [sic] who feels that now
is the hour to demand the establishment
of the whole of justice, ought to be there-
to add voice and especially vote – So do
you both be there – you see the Standard
is swinging round the circle pretty rapidly
these two or three weeks past – perchance with an
eye to selection- who can tell- but no matter -
all we want is the right word, and the broad
platform of the whole not half or five sixths-
Love to Mary & William, aunt Sarah & Edward & all
especially Isaac your dear husband
affectionately yours Susan B anthony
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Albany Dec. 9/66
Dear Amy
Giles Stebbins
wrote me he would
be home & see to
Editorial notices-
But I hope, you
will see to it –
I don’t suppose I
can get to R. before
afternoon - go from when-
S. B. A –
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Say that Mrs. Stanton and
Bessie Bisher & Parker Pillsbury
will speak Tuesday evening -
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Sunday Evening
464 West 911th Street
New York Dec. 2. 1866
Dear Amy –
Enclosed is
form of call for our
Monroe County Convention
will add Mrs. Whatson’s
name if she will – also
any other good speakers you
may be able to secure-
also fill out the plank-
with the name of place
where the working women
may call for their free
tickets –
I hope you can get
this into both the Express
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and Democrat of
this weeks weekly paper-
If you decide there
ought to be posters-
you can get them
printed & posted – Mr.
Fowler, of the Express-
will advise you-
I should think just
a few large ones- for
the arcade, & entrance
to the Hall-
But the main re-
lince [sic] must be the
news paper [sic] notices-
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and through the Churches-
next Sunday -
Hastily yours
Susan B. Anthony
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Our conventions are
1st – New York – Dec. 6 & 7.
2d- Utica “ 10th
3 Rochester “ 11 & 12
4th Syracuse “ 14th
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I heard Emma
Hardinge this A.M.
She will speak for us
and with us Thursday-
& Friday – but has engage-
ments full for the winter