The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18

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wife or daughter to Greenwood Cemetery
than have her stand here before this promis-
cuous audience and deliver that addrosa.'
BRroHr SAYINGS.
After Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton
had addressed the Constitutional Convention
at Albany In 1867, and offered TO answer
questions, Horace Greeley drawled Quit
Miss Anthony, you know the ballot end
the bullet go together; II you vote are you
ready to fghti'
Instantly she retortsd.
"Yes, Mr.. Greeley, as You fought N the
late war-at the point of a goose quilts
This answer has often been attributed
to Mrs. Stanton. but the New Nork Tribaas
Of that date. Mr.. Greeley's W paper,
credited 1t to Miss Anthony.
Mr.. Greeley was chairman of the suffrage
committee and the two women knew that
when they presented the petition Of women
10 be included In the suffrage clause Of
the new Constitution he would repeat
his hackneyed remark, THE hest women I
know don't want to vote" SO they wrote
Mrs. Greeley to get up q big petition in
westchester, which she did.
After all the others had been presented,
George William Curtis arose and said:
"Mr. Chairman, / hold In my hand a petition
signed by Mrs. Horace Greeley and 800 other
women Of Westchester!'
As Mr.. Greeley was just about to make
an adverse report his anger and embar-
rassment could scarcely be controlled.
For years afterward he used his paper to
oppose whatever these two women advo-
Gated.
Miss Anthony was usually ready with an
answer. Before the wal when she had been
talking on the subject Of divorce q noted
Abolitionist speaker said to her:
sYou are not married-you have no busi-
ness to be discussing marriage
well, MIR. Mayo she answered; you
are not a slave-suppose you quit lecturing
on slavery"
A very diminutive man once opened q
debate with her on woman suffrage by OPP
posing It on the ground that women could
not fight. She began her reply by saying:
"The professor talks about the physical
disabilities of woman; why, l could lift him
on and of this platform as easily as a mother
would her baby
During a campaign in South Dakota,
the hardest she ever made, an approaching
tornado stampeded her audience. The
county Sheriff rushed up to her and said:
Come quick, let me take you to the cell
lar!"
Never mind she answered; after my
recent experiences q little thing like a oy-
clone doesn't frighten me-
At another time a man came in uproari-
ously drunk and kept interrupting her.
The men began to cry, @Put him OUT but
Miss Anthony said:
@No, gentlemen, he is a product Of mans
government, and I want you to see what
sort you make"
NOT o TO MARRIAGE.
The charge was constantly made that the
leaders OF the suffrage movement were a
lot of old maids and childless wives, so in
1880 Miss Anthony prepared and published
a list showing that sixteen OF the most
prominent were the mothers Of sixty-six
children. OF the pioneers she was the only
one who never married, and Of the next
generation Of workers Phoebe Cousins
was the only one who remained single.
Indeed the greatest drawback to her work
was the fact that on account Of their domes-
tic ties she never could depend on any Of
her assistants.
It has been often said that Miss Anthony
was bitterly opposed to having women
marry, but this is not true. She did be-
lleve, however, that whore women had
great powers for doing a work which would
benefit all humanity they should put aside
personal preferences. As she expressed
1t when Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown
married, in 1855:
ut seemed as IL such women might make
a sacrifice and conseorate themselves to
the great needs Of the world, which were
demanding the services OF the ablest
women"
She never excused a woman in the small
est degree for neglecting the interests OF
her husband, children and household, and
she knew that these were incompatible
with public work. She had the most exalted
ideas Of marriage and always urged women
to marry for love and not for support,
and look upon marriage as q luxury and
not a necessity"
Il would not object to marriage abe
said, IF 1t were not that women throw
away every plan and purpose Of their "
life to conform to the plans and purposes
Of the husbands life. 1 wonder II 1t is
WOudL 3 Todl udtuIo diWayo v upi0ooVS
self
But when a young wife wrote her regard
ing some pressing suffrage work she had
promised Miss Anthony answered:
Il would not for anything have you drudge
on this during your husbands vacation.
No, no; there is none too much Of life and
happiness for any OF us, 90 plan to go and
do and be whatever seemeth best unto the
twain SO beautifully made one
WHY SHE DIDN'T WE'D.
As to herself marrying Miss Anthony
often said to the writer:
Amy woman will marry II the man she
loves asks her. / am no different from other
women"
Very few men came up to her standard
for a husband, and in her young days the
men who proposed marriage had no at
traction for her. As she grew older she
was 30 completely absorbed in her work
that sfs did not AVE time to think Of
marrying. Once she actually had her score
tary answer the letter Of an old admirer
who had become a widower and wished to
renew their acquaintance.
There is no doubt, however, that with
her innate ems Of impartial Justice end