The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . all the police. Very well, was the reply, we will sit heretill they come and take us to the station. At last he gavethem a room without a fire, and there, cold, wet and exhausted,they remained till morning. Then they started out again onfoot, as they had not enough money left to hire a carriage. They went to Mrs. Rose but she could not accommodatethem; then to Abby Hopper Gibbons, who sent them to Eliza-beth F. Ellet, saying if they could not find quarters to c
The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . all the police. Very well, was the reply, we will sit heretill they come and take us to the station. At last he gavethem a room without a fire, and there, cold, wet and exhausted,they remained till morning. Then they started out again onfoot, as they had not enough money left to hire a carriage. They went to Mrs. Rose but she could not accommodatethem; then to Abby Hopper Gibbons, who sent them to Eliza-beth F. Ellet, saying if they could not find quarters to comeback and she would care for them. Mrs. Ellet was not athome. All day they went from place to place but no one waswilling to accept the responsibility of sheltering them, and atnight, utterly worn out, they returned to Mrs. Gibbons. Shepromised to keep the mother and child until other arrange-ments could be effected, and Miss Anthony left them there andtook the 10 oclock train back to Albany. She arrived towardmorning, tired out in mind and body, but soon was made com-fortable by the ministrations of her faithful friend It was not long before the family became convinced thatMiss Anthony knew the whereabouts of mother and child andthen began a siege of persecution. She had at this time com-menced that never-to-be-forgotten series of anti-slavery con-ventions which were mobbed in every town from Buffalo to RIFT IN COMMON LAW DIVORCE QUESTION. 203 Albany. In the midst of all this excitement and danger, shewas constantly receiving threats from the brothers that theywould have her arrested on the platform. They said she hadbroken the laws and they would make her pay the penalty;that their sister was an ugly woman and nobody could livewith her. To this she replied: I have heard there wasIndian blood in your family ; perhaps your sister has got a littleof it as well as yourselves. I think you would not allow yourchildren to be taken away from you, law or no law. There isno r
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