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169 diary of Lecturetour to the border southwith ernestine L.rose By Susan B. Anthony March 24–April 14, 1854 Washington, D.C.; Northern Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Almost immediately after the legislative hearings in Albany, Rose and Anthony set out on a lecture tour to the nation’s capital and surrounding states in the Border South region, with the goal of “bringing women’s rights to the South.” By then, Rose was already an experienced and renowned orator. Anthony, who was just beginning to be active in the women’s rights movement, used her considerable skills for organizing and planning to manage the tour. Excerpts from the diary of Susan B. Anthony are included in this volume on Rose because Anthony’s observations, as a colleague and friend, writing in her private journal, provide an important perspective on Rose from a contemporary who was her colleague in reform and who traveled with her; their challenging mission to spread the ideas of women’s rights in the nation’s capital and the Border South. Rose had been pressing for the next national women’s rights convention to be held in Washington, D.C., later that year, hoping to use the opportunity to influence Congress (Kolmerten 1999, 140–41), but instead Philadelphia had been chosen as the convention site. Rose was determined to be heard by lawmakers nevertheless. The women’s request for use of a hall at the Capitol building was refused by the chaplain, on the grounds that Rose “failed to recognize the Divine.” DuBois (2001, 13) has written with great empathy on the irony of Anthony’s later attempting to comfort Rose with the gift of a church program when she had been excluded from the nation’s capital as a Jew and an atheist. Then, Anthony rented a room at Carusi’s Saloon, an elegant public assembly hall near the National Mall. Rose spoke the first night to 100 people, but by the third night to an audience of 500, including many members of Congress. Nonetheless, the tour lost money (Kolmerten 1999, 142–46). After Washington, D.C., the women traveled to northern Virginia and Baltimore, where they witnessed slavery firsthand. On their way back to New York they stopped in Philadelphia, where they met with prominent reformers. Their experiences and conversations were faithfully recorded by Anthony, an inveterate diarist, letter-writer, and scrapbook-keeper, whose personal papers have become a primary source of information about the early fight for women’s rights, and the women who waged it. It was while on this tour together that Rose felt comfortable enough to tell Anthony of her feelings upon hearing at the convention at Syracuse in 1852 that Lucy Stone and Wendell Phillips were opposed to allowing foreigners to vote. n 170 ernestIne l.rose March 24 Directed tickets to Mrs. Rose Meeting on Political and Legal Rights of Woman this evening at Carusi’s Saloon, to both Representatives and Senators , in all about 300 in number. Asked the Speaker of the House for the use of the Capitol on Sunday A.M. He referred me to Mr. Milburn the Chaplain. Called on him. He could not allow her to speak there because she was not a member of some religious society. I remarked to him that ours was a country professing Religious as well as Civil Liberty and not to allow any and every faith to be declared in the Capitol of the nation, made the profession to religious freedom a perfect mockery. Though acknowledging the truthfulness of my position, he could not allow a person, who failed to recognize the Divine, to speak in his place. . . . March 26 Went to the Capitol and listened to Mr. Milburn on Home Life. He said many good things and many things that indicated gross ignorance, misrepresentation . Said “It is here in the home that most men and all women ’s chiefest duties lie.” . . . Called also at Gerrit Smith’s . . . [a well-known abolitionist, philanthropist , member of Congress, and cousin to Elizabeth Cady Stanton]. Mr. Smith said he wished to share with us in the pecuniary loss of one meeting and insisted on my accepting a Bill which I afterward learned to be a $20 bank note. Expressed himself very glad that Mrs. R. had come to Washington. . . . March 29 Left Washington at 1/4 to 9 o’clock for Mt. Vernon, where we arrived about 1 o’clock. The weather cold and windy, but more mild than...

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