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20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can give us a place to sleep or we will sit in this office all night. When he threatened to call the police, she retorted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, we will sit here till they come to take us to the station."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "action, it was hard for her to reconcile this advice with his impetuous, undiplomatic, and dangerous actions on behalf of Negro slaves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel the strongest assurance, she told him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very many abolitionists, she wrote in her diary,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nevertheless you are right and the convention will sustain you."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[134] a growing appreciation of liberty and free institutions and a willingness to defend them. Calling upon abolitionists to stand by their principles, he at the same time warned them not to criticize Lincoln or the Republicans unnecessarily, not to divide the North, but to wat... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How not to do it seems the whole study of Washington, she wrote in her diary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish the government would move quickly, proclaim freedom to every slave and call on every able-bodied Negro to enlist in the Union Army.... To forever blot ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the marble face of Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci, and declared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Making that cold marble breathe and pulsate, Harriet Hosmer has done more to ennoble and elevate woman than she could possibly have done by mere words.... Of Rosa Bonheur... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We deserve to suffer for our confidence in 'man's sense of justice,' she confessed to Lydia."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am speaking now extempore, she continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a stay, counsel, and comfort you have been to me, dear Lydia, ever since that eventful little temperance meeting in that cold, smoky chapel in 1852. How you have compelled me to feel myse... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can the thousands of Northern soldiers, she asked,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What arrogance in _us_, she continued,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I still keep at work with the President in various ways and believe you will yet hear him proclaim universal freedom. Keep this letter and judge me by the event."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Constitution as it is, the Union as it was."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seemed as if everything in the world must stop."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The country is rapidly going to destruction. The Army is almost in a state of mutiny for want of its pay and lack of a leader. Nothing can carry through but the southern Negroes, and no... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sanitary Fairs"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you could have finished the war with your needles, she chided them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not organize a Women's National Loyal League?"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every hour's delay, every life sacrificed up to the proclamation that called the slave to freedom and to arms, she declared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As Susan so tersely expressed it, they would"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There must be a law a... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The pity is, she wrote Anna E. Dickinson,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll hang old Horace Greeley to a sour apple tree."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These are terrible times,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am starving for a full talk with somebody posted, not merely pitted for Lincoln.... The persistent cry of the _Liberator_ and the _Antislavery Standard_ to re-elect Lincoln and not to swap horses in midstream did not ring true to her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Phillips has just returned from Washington, Mrs. Stanton wrote her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He says the radical men feel they are powerless and checkmated.... They turn to such men as Phillips to say what politicians dare not say.... We say now, as ever, 'Give... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such gratuitous outrage should be met with instant death--without judge or jury--if any offense may."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In emancipation is national unity."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "made up"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something Left Undone,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She liked Daniel's wife, Annie, at once, admired her gaiety and the way she fearlessly drove her beautiful black horse across the prairie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have a real 'Aunt Chloe' in the kitchen, she wrote Mrs. Stanton,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I could talk through it the things I'd like to say to the young martyr state ... she wrote Mrs. Stanton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Legislature gave but six votes for Negro suffrage the other day.... The idea of Kansas refusing her loyal Negroes."
}
... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In this city, she reported to Mrs. Stanton,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was there ever a more terrific command to a Nation to 'stand still and know that I am God' since the world began? The Old Book's terrible exhibitions of God's wrath sink into nothingness. And this fell blow just at the very hour he was declaring his willingness to consign those ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and thought the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Lashing out with the vehemence of Phillips against President Johnson's reconstruction policy, she warned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There has been no ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the administration of Abraham Lincoln taught the American people one lesson above another, it was that they must think and speak and proclaim, and that he as their President was bound to execute their will, not his own. And if Lincoln were alive today, he would say as he did ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While I could continue as heretofore, arguing for woman's rights, just as I do for temperance every day, he had written,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back and help, pleaded Elizabeth Stanton, who grew more and more alarmed as she saw all interest in woman suffrage crowded out of the minds of reformers by their zeal for the Negro."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have argued constantly with Phillips and the wh... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Made a labored talk.... Had a struggle to get through with speech, and again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had a hard time. Thoughts nor words would come--Staggered through."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask my wife. I can philosophize, but I always look to her to decide for me in practical matters."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is, there can be, but one true basis, she continued."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Taxation and representation must be inseparable; hence our demand must now go beyond woman.... We therefore wish to broaden our woman's rights platform and make it in name what ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "out of the constitution, but not the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That could come, he added, when the constitution was next revised, some twenty or thirty years later. To their astonishment, Theodore Tilton heartily agreed. Then he added,"
},
{
"from":... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "words which had never previously been mentioned in the Constitution, but he raised no serious objection to the introduction of the word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as a qualification for suffrage, which was also unp... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the Unite... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We, the people of the United States, in order to ... establish justice ... and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Of course"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was pas... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Benjamin Wade's bill"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in the District of Columbia"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was discussed on the Senate floor in December 1866, Senator Cowan offered an amendment striking out the word"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Cry from the Females, in which he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Talk of a true woman needing the ballot as an accessory of power when she rules the world with the glance of an eye."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know Mr. Phillips takes the ground that this is 'the Negro's hour,' and that the women, if not criminal, are at least, not wise to urge their own claim. Now, so sure am I that he is mistaken and that the only name given, by which the country can be saved, is that of WOMAN, t... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If any State shall disfranchise any of its citizens on account of color, all that class shall be counted out of the basis of representation. Then the question arose whether or not disfranchising Negro women would carry this penalty and the result was a rewording which struck out... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No! You must not get up any agitation for that measure.... Help us get the word 'white' out of the constitution. This is the Negro's hour.... Your turn will come next."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you vote, are you ready to fight? Instantly, Susan replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Mr. Greeley, just as you fought in the late war--at the point of a goose quill."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best women I know do not want to vote,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. President, I hold in my hand a petition from Mrs. Horace Greeley and 300 other women, citizens of Westchester, asking that the word 'male' be stricken from the Constitution."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your committee does not recommend an extension of the elec... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fully expect we shall carry the State, Lucy confidently wrote Susan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The women here are grand, and it will be a shame past all expression if they don't get the right to vote.... But the Negroes are all against us.... These men _ought ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are left without a dollar, she wrote State Senator Samuel N. Wood."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every speaker who goes to Kansas must _now pay her own_ expenses out of her own private purse, unless money should come from some unexpected source. I shall run the r... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are getting along splendidly. Just the frame of a Methodist Church with sidings and roof, and rough cottonwood boards for seats, was our meeting place last night ...; and a perfect jam it was, with men crowded outside at all the windows.... Our tracts do more than half the ba... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The people want you, the women want you ;[199] and he came into the state in a burst of glory, speaking first in Leavenworth and Lawrence to large curious audiences. A tall handsome man with curly brown hair and keen gray eyes, flashily dressed in a blue coat with brass buttons,... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Wendell Phillips, today? Lost caste everywhere. Inconsistent in all things, cowardly in this. Where is Horace Greeley in this Kansas war for liberty? Pitching the woman suffrage idea out of the Convention and bailing out Jeff Davis. Where is William Lloyd Garrison? Bein... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have always found that when we see eye to eye, we are sure to be right, and when we pull together we are strong.... I take my beloved Susan's judgment against the world."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Woman Suffrage got the headlines, but sometimes it was"
},
{... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the old friends with scarce an exception are sure we are wrong, Susan wrote in her diary, January 1, 1868."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only time can tell, but I believe we are right and hence bound to succeed."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we women fail to speak the _one word_ of the hour, Susan wrote Anna E. Dickinson,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "equal pay for women for equal work, and practical education for girls as well as boys, but also the eight-hour day, labor problems, and a new financial policy for America. This new financial policy, the dream of George Francis Train, advocated the purchase of American goods only... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has got to come, he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts greeted her gruffly, telling her that she and Mrs. Stanton had done more to block reconstruction in the last two years than all others in the land, but he subscribed be... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why go pell-mell for Grant, asked _The Revolution_,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Theodore Tilton in the Congregationalist paper, _The Independent_, commented in his usual facetious style, which pinned him down neither to praise nor unfriendliness, but Susan was grateful to read,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Newspapers were generally friendly."
... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Its vigorous pages are what we need. Count on me now and ever as your true and unswerving friend."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at 44 Bond Street or in her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at 116 East Twenty-third Street. That Anna could have risen out of the hardships of her girlhood to such popularity as a lecturer and to such financial success was to Susan like a fairy tale come true. Scarce... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "from the Democrats. To the amazement of the delegates, Susan with Mrs. Stanton and several other women walked into the convention when it was well under way and sent a memorial up to Governor Seymour who was presiding. He received it graciously, announcing that he held in his ha... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Susan B. Anthony has our sincere pity. She has been an ardent suitor of democracy, and they rejected her overtures yesterday with screams of laughter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as was the choice of General Grant and Schuyler Colfax by the Republicans. There... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must not work for these starving prices any longer ..., Susan told them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have a spirit of independence among you, 'a wholesome discontent,' as Ralph Waldo Emerson has said, and you will get better wages for yourselves. Get together ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the power of the ballot, she declared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[222] She recommended that both men and women be enrolled in unions, pointing out that had this been done, women typesetters would not have replaced men at lower wages in the recent strike of... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The producers, the working-men, the women, the Negroes, _The Revolution_ declared,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make up your mind, she continued,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[227] _The Revolution_ encouraged this union by printing notices of its meetings and urging all women compositors to join. In signed articles, Susan pointed out how wages had improved since the union was organized."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A little more Union, ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As to the charges which were made by Typographical Union No. 6, she reported to this Association,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of her devotion to the cause of workingwomen, there can be no question."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Struggle for Life,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The experiment of woman suffrage in the District of Columbia was not tried and nothing came of the resolutions for universal suffrage introduced by Pomeroy, Julian, and Wilson. In spite of all Susan's efforts to have the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "added to t... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "making"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If _The Revolution_ which has so often endorsed George Francis Train will repudiate him because of his course in respect to the Negro's rights, I have nothing further to say. But they do not repudiate him. He goes out; but they do not cast him out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will agree that many unwise things have been written in _The Revolution_ by a gentleman who furnished part of the means by which the paper has been carried on. But that gentleman has withdrawn, and you, who know the real opinions of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton on the questio... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am willing that the Negro shall get the ballot before me, and he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot see how anyone can pretend that there is the same urgency in giving the ballot to women as to the Negro."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old antislavery school says that women must stand back, declared Susan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If intelligence, justice, and morality are to be placed in the government, then let the question of woman be brought up first and that of the Negro last.... Mr.... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe, she admitted,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That Equal Rights Association is an awful humbug, exploded Mary Livermore to Susan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would not have come on to the anniversary, nor would any of us, if we had known what it was. We supposed we were coming to a woman suffrage convention... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have studied Miss Anthony day and night for nearly a week.... She is a woman of incorruptible integrity and the thought of guile has no place in her heart. In unselfishness and benevolence she has scarcely an equal, and her energy and executive ability are bounded only by her ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we need two national associations for woman suffrage so that those who do not oppose the Fifteenth Amendment, nor take the tone of _The Revolution_ may yet have an organization with which they can work in harmony."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The radical ab... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are those well-known American names, Susan B. Anthony, Parker Pillsbury, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton? It is clear that there is a division in the ranks of the strong-minded and that an effort is being made to ostracize _The Revolution_ which has so long upheld the cause of ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My paper must not, shall not go down. I am sure you believe in me, in my honesty of purpose, and also in the grand work which _The Revolution_ seeks to do, and therefore you will not allow me to ask you in vain to come to the rescue. Yesterday's mail brought 43 subscribers from ... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So help me, Heaven! she continued with emotion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I care not what may come out of this Convention, so that this great cause shall go forward to its consummation! And though this Convention by its action shall nullify the National Associat... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I rejoice over every slave that escapes from a discordant marriage. With the education and elevation of women we shall have a mighty sundering of the unholy ties that hold men and women together who loathe and despise each other...."
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, tell me, Miss Anthony, have you hunted the country over and picked out and brought to Washington a score of the most beautiful women you could find?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, I stand by you to the end. I would not see you crushed by rivals even i... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Susan's Half Century, read a headline in the _Herald_. The _World_ called her the Moses of her sex."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Brave Old Maid, commented the _Sun_. But it was to the _Tribune_ that she turned with special interest, always hoping for a word of ap... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Anthony evidently lectures not for the purpose of receiving applause, commented the Pittsburgh _Commercial_,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Work, Wages, and the Ballot,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was like signing my own death warrant, and to a friend she wrote,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel a great, calm sadness like that of a mother binding out a dear child that she could not support."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In view of the act... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "had established their own paper, _Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly_, an"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Organ of Social Regeneration and Constructive Reform,"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glorious old Ben! she wrote."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He surely is going to pronounce the word that will settle the woman question, just as he did the word 'contraband' that so summarily settled the Negro question.... Everybody here chimes in with the new concl... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great Secession speech."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If the very next Congress refuses women all the legitimate results of citizenship, she declared,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woodhull Convention"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not always 'the wise and prudent' to whom the truth is revealed; tho' far be it from me to imply aught derogatory to Mrs. Woodhull. No one can be with her, see her gentle and modest bearing and her spiritual face, without feeling sure that she is a true woman, whatever unh... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have been moving over the soil, that is really the land of the free and the home of the brave.... Women here can say, 'What a magnificent country is ours, where every class and caste, color and sex, may find freedom....'"
}
] |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Women here, as everywhere, she declared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Power of the Ballot. As she proceeded to prove that women needed the ballot to protect themselves and their work and could not count on the support and protection of men, she cited case after... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never in all my hard experience have I been under such fire, she confided to her diary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The clouds are so heavy over me.... I never before was so cut down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As I rolled on the ocean last week feeling that the very next strain might swamp the ship, and thinking over all my sins of omission and commission, there was nothing undone which haunted me like the failure to speak the word at San Francisco again and more fully. I would rather... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But to the rack I must go, though another San Francisco torture be in store for me. [273] She spoke on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Power of the Ballot, on women's right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, on the need of women to be self-supporting, and cle... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been asked by many, 'Why did you drag Victoria Woodhull to the front?' Now, bless your souls, she was not dragged to the front. She came to Washington with a powerful argument. She presented her Memorial to Congress and it was a power.... She had an interview with the jud... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have they done as they promised? she asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When we come asking protection under the new guarantees of the Constitution, the same men say to us ... to wait the action of Congress and State legislatures in the adoption of a Sixteenth Ame... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have no element out of which to make a political party, because there is not a man who would vote a woman suffrage ticket if thereby he endangered his Republican, Democratic, Workingmen's, or Temperance party, and all our time and words in that direction are simply thrown awa... |
20439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Impending Revolution"
}
] |
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