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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2)

CHAPTER X
18/34

William Marvin, of Binghamton, wrote: "The sympathy of the people here, during the teachers' association, was decidedly with you.

A vote from the audience would have carried any one of your resolutions." In the autumn the anti-slavery meetings were resumed, and Miss Anthony was unsparing of herself and everybody else.

Parker Pillsbury complained: "What a task-mistress our general agent is proving herself.
I expect as soon as women get command, an end will have come to all our peace.

We shall yet have societies for the protection of men's rights, in the cause of which many of us will have to be martyrs." Her brother, Daniel R., was sending frequent letters from Kansas containing graphic descriptions of the terrible condition of affairs in that unhappy territory, and scathing denunciations of the treachery of northern "dough faces," thus fanning the fires of patriotism that glowed in her breast and filling her with renewed zeal for the cause to which she was giving her time and strength.

During these days she wrote a cherished sister: Though words of love are seldom written or spoken by one of us to the other, there must ever remain the abiding faith that the heart still beats true and fond.


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