Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-03-09

While she was in tho South, Mary
Ashton Rice, as she was then known,
saw unutterable deeds OF barbarism,
and was brought face to face with
the miserles Of slavery, which she
did not fail to study, and which
fired her with enthusiasm for cause
to which a good portion OF her cncr.
gies were to be devoted. for she had
not then thought Of THO suffrage
question, In which she Is now 80
deeply interested.
When she left her position In the
South and returned to Massachu.
sets, teaching o school OF her own
In Duxbury, and afterward rclin.
gushing Il. in 1916, to become the
wife OF the Rev. d. p. Livcrmore, she
was ready to sympathizc with the
anti-slavery sentiments constantly
growing warmer In the North, and
after moving with her husband to
Chicago, In 1857, she made use OF tho
columns OF the paper DIR. Livermore
published there for soliciting the co.
operation OF the public In tho behalf
OF tho Union soldiers OF tho civil
war.
After moving to Chicago Mrs. Liv-
ermore wrote for every department OF
her husbands paper, beside attend.
Ing to all her household duties and
the care Of her children, ut the same
time furnishing stories and sketches
for periodicals. But with the work
OF the United States sanitary com.
mission began the most telling work
Of her life.
1t was about that time that tho
lyceums, which were always on the
lookout for novelties, frequently
asked her to 20 and relate her expe.
rl0nces In working for tho soldiers, on
condition that she was have the on
tire evenings proceeds for the benft
OF the commission. Such offers were
not to DO refused, so she always
went.
II had never dreamed that any.
body knew who I was," said Mrs.
Livermore, In relating her expert.
ences, ''or that my experiences were
OF interest to anybody, until we be.
gan to have our great sanitary fairs
for the benefit OF the commission.
and then began to read In the pa
pers that Mrs. Livermore had done
this or that, and with the success oil
our first fair began the zeal trials.
There had been great deal OF
anxiety on our part, for the starting
Of tho fair had involved debt oil
$40, 900. But there were no fears
after the first day, when we took
$25, 900. Everybody entering the
halls In which the fairs were held
was obliged to pass under the ma
tional colors, and even the traitors
not only passed under the colors, but
came to ask us II there was anything
they could do to help us"
In beginning her lecturing, how
ever, Mrs. Livermore's interest in the
suffrage question was by no means
cooled. She had in one savings
bank 1000 In her own right. She
informed her husband that with thii
she intended to establish q paper tt
be devoted to the cause OF woman
suffrage,
| 1uc EcbuiV Wuo - ptoHouuSou suo
cess for the Agitator. When in 1876
the Boston sufiragists wished to es
tablish a paper there was nobody
among them who felt competent tc
assume the responsibility, and Mrs,
Livermore was asked to become Its
editor. William Lloyd Garrison,
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgin
son, Lucy Stone, DR.. Henry Black.
we'll and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe were
the founders OF the Boston publica
ton. but OF them all only Garrison
had had any newspaper experience
and Susan b. Anthony's Revolution
in New York, was the only publlca
ton OF the sort in the country, aside
from Mrs. Liyermore's
And now, after an active public
career of forty years one Of Americas
most famous women has decided tC
make herself little less OF u living
sacrifice to public demands.
Such is the wonderful life Of woman
Of thu age, who has witnessed progress