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Identifier: lifeworkofsusanb01harp (find matches)
Title: The life and work of Susan B. Anthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
Subjects: Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906.
Publisher: Indianapolis and Kansas City, The Bowen-Merrill company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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r. But, .strange to say, she Missed it. While others in domestic broils For fifty years to come may sheHave proved by word and carriage, Grow rich and ripe and mellow. That one of the United States Be quoted even above par,Is not the state of marriage, Or any other feUow; She, caring not for loss of men. And spread the truth from pole to pole, Nor for the worlds confusion, And keep her light a-burning. Has carried on a civil war Before she cuts her stick to go And made a Revolution. To where theres no returning. Time, other women have been brave, Because her motto grand hath beenWhen banded or hus-banded. The rights of every human. But she has biavely fought her way And first and last, and right or wrong,Alone and single-handed. She takes the part of woman. And think of her unselfish life, A perfect woman, nobly planned, Her generous disposition. To aid, not to amuse one; Who never made a lasting prop Take her for all in all, we neer Out of a proposition. Shall see the match of Susan.
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY At the Age of 50, from a Photograph by Sarony. FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY END OF EQUAL RIGHTS SOCIETY. 343 broke in spite of her self-control: If this were an assembledmob opposing the rights of women I should know what tosay. I never made a speech except to rouse people to action.My work is that of subsoil plowing. ... I ask you to-night, as your best testimony to my services, on this, thetwentieth anniversary of my public work, to join me in mak-ing a demand on Congress for a Sixteenth Amendment givingwomen the right to vote, and then to go with me before theseveral legislatures to secure its ratification; and when the Sec-retary of State proclaims that that amendment has been rati-fied by twenty-eight States, then Susan B. Anthony will stopwork—but not before. When all was over, before she slept, Miss Anthony wrotethis characteristically tender little note to the one who neverwas absent from her mind : My Dear Mother: It really seems tonight as if I were parting with some

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