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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) - Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her - Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
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CHAPTER XXII.

MRS. HOOKER'S CONVENTION--THE LECTURE FIELD. (1871.), 371-385

Mrs. Hooker undertakes Washington Convention; amusing letters from
Anthony, Stanton, Hooker, Wright; first appearance of Mrs. Woodhull;
accounts by Philadelphia Press, Washington Daily Patriot and National
Republican; resolution by Miss Anthony claiming right to vote under
Fourteenth Amendment; Declaration signed by 80,000 women; Catharine
Beecher and Mrs. Woodhull; Mrs. Stanton rebukes men who object to Mrs.
Woodhull; hard life of a lecturer; Mrs. Griffing, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs.
Hooker on political party attitude; Phoebe Couzins pleads for the
National Association; Mrs. Woodhull at New York May Anniversary; charge
of "free love" refuted; forcible letter from Miss Anthony declaring for
one Moral Standard.


CHAPTER XXIII.

FIRST TRIP TO THE PACIFIC COAST. (1871.), 387-408

Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton cross the continent; newspaper comment;
Miss Anthony's letters from Salt Lake City; hostile treatment by San
Francisco press; description of trip to Yosemite; journey by boat to
Oregon; her letters on lecture experiences in Oregon and Washington;
ridicule of Portland Bulletin; misrepresentation of Territorial
Despatch; "cards" in papers of British Columbia; account of stage ride
back to San Francisco; banquet at Grand Hotel; journey eastward with
Sargent family; snowbound among the Rockies.
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