Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-05-04

of womans rights and 50 little or abolition
+ that her friend. Rev. Samuel NAV. the
agent of the Anti SlaveTy Society, who ar
ranged her meetings, felt obliged 10 tell
. her that, on the anti-,lavery platform,
this would not do she answered. II
know il, but could not help 1t. | vas a
woman before ! was au soolItiunist. and
! nsust speak for the women" She resigned
TIER position a. lecturer for The Anti SAY
cry Society, intending "a devote herself
wholly TO woman's rights. They were
I very unwilling - give her up. however,
a. he had been one Of their most cil. ciive
4 .peakcrs; and it was husly arranged that
I She should speak for ihrm Saturday even
lngr and SuusiaNs-t.ulrr which were Ie-
/ gatdtd a. too sacred FIR any church or
7 Aall 10 bc pened for Wumaus right,
meeting aud during the rest Of tue We,
I she should lecture for womaus tights gu
her own responsibility.
Her adventures during The next few
7 yrat~ wnuid Ill a volume. NJ suffrage
association was organized until long afiel
thi- time. She hsd no cooperation and no
king, and started out absolutely alone
50 far a. She knew, there were Only few
I persons lu the whole country who HAD
any sympathy with the idea Of cquai
, rights Sac put up the posters for her
I own meetings, Win HltIc package of
tAcks anu stone picked Ut from the
/ street. Sometimes the boys followed her
hootlng aud preparing to tear the posters
down Then she would stop aud cali The
boys about her, and hold prelmtnar,
meeting in the street, until she had won
them all over and persuaded them To let
her poster, alone. Once in winter a pane
OF glass was removed from the window
Z " kpT II btt.
pat thr i'm aud She Was suddenly
| drlug.d ~ith ice-cuid water " hi.e she was
/ speaking, She put on shawl. aud cOL
/ tnued htt lecture. Pepper WAS burned
! spltbalIs were thrown, aud all sorts " de
! vices rcsOTttd 70 IN order - break 10 the
! NEE t!nss, but generally without success
/ She travelled over large part Of the
( | nIted States. In most of the towns
where he leCtuTed, no woman had ever
! spoken IN public before, and curiosity at
/ tracted immense audiences. The speaker
/ was great surprise to them. The general
/ idea OF womans rights advocate, On the
+ part u those Who had never seen one.
/ Was of a tall, gaunt, angular woman, WIKI
aggressive manners, masculine air and
/ >trident voice, >Coluiug al the men
/ lu-tcad, they found a tiny woman, with
/ quiet, una--umlng manners, 4 winning
/ presence. and the sweetest voice ever
/ possessed by public speaker. This voice
/ became celebrated. IL WAS 80 musical
! and delicious that persons who had once
I heard her lecture, hearing her utter few
words years afterwards, on railroad car
/ or In stsge-coach, where ii was TOO dark
/ 10 recognize faces would at once exclaim
unhestatiDgly, That i Lucy Stone III
/ Old people who remember those early
/ haf h.A f,,f
| eloquence There were no tricks OF
oratory, but the transparent sincerity,
| simplicity and intense earncstness Of tae
/ speaker, added to a singular personal
( magnetism and an utter forgetfuIuess OF
( sell. swayed those great audiences as the
| 1nd bends a field Of grass. Often mobs
would listen to her when they howled
/ down every other speaker. At one
/ "omans rights meeting IN New York the
| mob made such clamor that it was i'm
possible for any speaker 10 be heard One
| after another tried it, only to have his
or her voice drowned forthwith by boots
and howl> William Henry Claiming adj
vlsed Lucretia Mott, who was presiding
10 adjourn the meeting. Mrs. Mott
answered, when the hour fixed for ad-
journmeut comes. | will adjourn the meet
| Ing; not before" At last Lucy Stone was
a congregation of church goers but as
soon as the next speaker began, the howl
ing recommended, and it continued to the
end. At the close of the meeting, when
the speakers went into the dressing room
to get their hats and cloaks the mob
surged in aud surrounded them; and Lucy
Stone, who was brimInng over with in
dlguaton, began To reproach them for
their behavior. "Oh, come, they an
s~ered, you needn't say anything; we
Kept still for you!'
At an ant-siavery meeting held on Cape
Cod, In grove, in the open air, plat
form had been erected for the speakers,
| a. q crowd assembled; but a crowd SO
menacing in aspect, and with so eviden,
an intention Of violence, that the speakers
one by one came down from the stand and
slipped quietly away, tin none were left
but Stephen Foster and Lucy Stone. She
said, You had better run, Stephen they
are coming!" He answered, "But who
will take care of your At that moment
the mob made a rush for the platform
and big man sprang up on it swinging 8
club. She turned to him and said with
out hesitation, This gentleman will take
care of me-" He declared that he would
He tucked her under one arm, and holding
: his club with the other. marched her ou
through the crowd, who were roughly
handling Mr.. Foster, and such Of the 9th
er speakers as they had been able to catch
Her representations finally SO prevailed up
e on him that he mounted her on a stump
t and stood by her with his club while sh,
5 addressed the mob. They were SO movet
Y by her speech that they not only desistet
Y from further violence. but took up a col
lection of twenty dollars to pay Stephel
I Fo,ter for his coat, which they had tori
D in two from top to bottom.
Z When she began to lecture she woule
/ not charge an admission fee, partly be
- cause she was anxious that as many peO
: pie as possible should hear and be con
| | verted, and she feared that an admission
5 fee might keep some one way and partl,
: from something of the Quaker feeling tina
it was wrong to take pay for preachin.
i the gospel. She economical in every way
t When she stayed in Boston, she used t,
t put up at lodging house on Hanove
] street where they gave her meals TO
q twelve and a half cents, and lodging TO
!. six and a quarter cents, on condition o
= her sleeping IN the garret with the daugh
S tiers Of the house, three in q bed.
S Once when she was in great need of
e new cloak, she came to Salem Mass.
. where she was to lecture. and found tha
the Hutchinson family of singers were t,
7 give a concert the same evening. The
e proposed to her to unite the entertainment
h and divide the proceeds. She consented
l. and bought cloak with the money. Sh
l. was also badly in want of other clothing
Il Her friends assured heI that the audience
Y would be just as large despite an admis
n | sim fee She tried IL and f1ndiDU that IN