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306 & Michigan. As the leading suffrage papers, the Woman’s Journal and the Woman’s Tribune, have refused to publish my protest, I ask for space in your columns. E. C. S. Y Boston Investigator, 22 July 1899. 1. This paragraph and the four following ones were copied verbatim from the account in the Woman’s Journal, 13 May 1899, Film, 39:820–23, probably written by Alice Blackwell. That article later supplied the official report of the annual convention. No newspaper other than the Woman’s Journal stated that SBA took a deciding role in the debate. 2. For the resolutions, most of them expressions of gratitude to men for improved laws, see Report of the Thirty-first Annual Convention, 1899, pp. 56–58, Film, 39:722ff. 3. Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (1805–1879), daughter of a South Carolina slaveholder and pioneer abolitionist. 4. The Woman’s Journal does not quote SBA to this effect. 5. Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven.” ••••••••• 135 • William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., to ECS Boston, July 26, 1899. Dear Mrs. Stanton: Your letter of the 21st arrived simultaneously with the news of Col. Ingersoll’s death, which brought to mind the last time I saw you when we were at Dobbs Ferry, and you egged me into a discussion with him on protective tariff. 1 It was a memorable evening and I often recall it. I heard Col. Ingersoll only last month at the Free Religious Convention in Boston at the Hollis Street theatre, but was pained rather than edified by his address. 2 It was flippant, irreverent, and shallow, lacking refinement and indicating no appreciation of the advancement the world has made since he began battling for freedom of thought. But he was a picturesque figure with a rare courage of conviction, and a most lovable man. Regarding imperialism, I wonder that you do not see how applicable your reasoning regarding inferior races is to the negro and the woman question. In your vaunting of the Anglo-Saxon supremacy you forget the individual rights of the less civilized races,if they can be said to be less civilized than this nation of lynchers and coarse commercialism.The Filipinos 22 july 1899 ^ 307 are entitled to grow and develop in their own manner, according to their inherent genius. In our present attitude we will stand in history pilloried with the slave-trader, the destroyer of the Indian and the persecutor of the Chinese. Our whole Indian record is one of disgrace and dishonor, and only shows the barbarism of our forefathers with their Calvanistic conceit and bigotry. I cannot help regretting that your attitude puts you in an unenviable company when supporting this McKinley infamy, unless brute force is superior to moral perceptions. Expediency is ever a failure, and no imperialist argues the question from any other ground. My family are summering at Jaffrey, N.H., where we went in consequence of the recent illness of my daughter Agnes, who is now happily recovering. I rejoin them every Friday for three or four days. If Ellie were here she would unite with me in affectionate regards. Very sincerely yours, U Wm L. Garrison [handwritten] Pardon my use of the type writer which I am obliged more & more to use nemployp on account of my crippled hand— Y TLS, ECS Papers, DLC. 1. Robert Ingersoll died on 21 July 1899. According to ECS’s children, the event recalled by Garrison happened 30 September 1892,while he visited his sister Fanny Garrison Villard in Dobbs Ferry, near the Ingersolls. (Stanton, 2:288.) 2. Before the Free Religious Association meeting on 2 June 1899, Ingersoll delivered a speech entitled “What is Religion?” See The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll (New York, 1929), 4:479–508. ••••••••• 136 • SBA to Clara Bewick Colby Rochester, New York. Oct. 23, 1899. My Dear Friend:—¶1 I suppose you have seen the “tempest in a teapot” occasioned by somebody’s making the announcement at the Pennsylvania convention in Philadelphia, that Miss Anthony was to retire from the presidency of the National Suffrage Association, and had appointed Mrs. Catt as her successor!! 1 I stated over the telephone at once to the Democrat 26 july 1899 ...

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