[The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) CHAPTER X 9/34
Think of Mason, of Virginia, the author of the Fugitive Slave Bill, being one of the speakers on Bunker Hill! [Autograph: Yours for the triumph of liberty, Wm.
Lloyd Garrison] On this great tour Miss Anthony became so thoroughly aroused that she could no longer confine herself to written addresses, which seemed cold and formal and utterly unresponsive to the inspiration of the moment. She threw them aside and used them thereafter only on rare occasions. Her speeches from that time were made from notes or headings and among those used during the winter of 1857 are the following: Object of meeting; to consider the fact of 4,000,000 slaves in a Christian and republican government....
Everybody is anti-slavery, ministers and brethren.
There are sympathy, talk, prayers and resolutions in ecclesiastical and political assemblies.
Emerson says "Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed;" so anti-slavery prayers, resolutions and speeches avail nothing without action....
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