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^ 413 rison and the wealthy widow of Henry Villard, financier, publisher, and railroad president. She had befriended ECS for many years and entertained her both at their house in Dobbs Ferry and in New York City. (NAW; ANB.) ••••••••• 193 • SBA to William C. Gannett Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 27, 1901 Dear Sir:— I notice that at the Union Thanksgiving service 1 you are to speak on the subject “The Power of Organized Womanhood.” I expect to be present on this occasion and it hardly seems necessary for me to suggest to you that “Organized Womanhood” can never reach its highest “Power” until it is strengthened by the possession of the ballot. Sincerely yours, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Unitarian Church Papers, NRU. Directed to Unitarian Church, City. 1. Union services of Thanksgiving were held in Rochester each year, led by Unitarian William Gannett,Rabbi Max Landsberg,and Universalist Asa Saxe.See SBA diary, 24 November 1892, 26 November 1903, Film, 29:655ff, 43:2ff. ••••••••• 194 • Article by ECS [5 December 1901] Education Will Do It. Will in Due Time Solve Negro Question in the South. In starting, I would say of the negro just what Shakespeare says of the Jew in “The Merchant of Venice”: “Hath not the negro eyes? Hath not a negro hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as the white man? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you poison us, do we not die?” 1 13 november 1901 ...

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