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^ 383 national attention in late December when she took her campaign to Wichita for a month. There her tense interactions with the temperance union came into view: her indisputable success undermined the union’s commitment to moral suasion. (Kansas Const.of 1859,art.XV,sec.10; Fran Grace,Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life [Bloomington, Ind., 2001], 145–76; New York Tribune, 31 January 1901.) 2. Before publishing the text of this letter as an article entitled “The War in Kansas,” editors at the Woman’s Journal rewrote this sentence to correct ECS’s misunderstanding of the law in Kansas.“As women of Kansas have only municipal suffrage, they have not by their votes helped to make these laws; they were made by men alone; but the women are determined to see them executed, as the county officials elected for this purpose are too timid or wicked to do their.”Prior to 1880, women outside the state’s cities had a voice in the granting of local liquor licenses, something ECS observed in person in 1867, but the constitutional amendment, adopted solely by men, erased that right and superceded local options about selling liquor. (Woman’s Journal, 9 February 1901, Film, 41:947.) 3. The Woman’s Crusade referred to bands of praying women who marched on saloons in many northern towns and cities in 1873 and 1874. See Papers 3. 4. This sentence was removed from the article published by the Woman’s Journal. ••••••••• 174 • ECS to Booker T. Washington 250 West 94th st. Feb. 15th 1901 Dear Sir, In reading “The Outlook,”from week to week,I always turn first to your deeply interesting “Reminiscences” 1 There is a mistake in the last number which I hope you will be sure to correct in the published volumn. My son’s name is Theodore, who graduated a few years ago from Cornell University ; a far younger man than Edwin Stanton, 2 Secretary of War in Gen. Grant’s cabinet, for whom a name more familiar to you. Theodore is very proud of his name, given him in honor of Theodore Dwight Weld, 3 one of the distinguished pioneers in the anti-slavery struggle. He nMr. Weldp married Angelina Grimké of South Carolina, who emancipated her slaves and lectured extensively in the North on the slavery question; she was a very eloquent and attracted large crowds to her meetings. Edwin Stanton was a cousin of my husband’s. As a family we are proud of our anti-slavery record, and hence tenacious as to our right names. When next you chance to be in New York, I hope you and Mrs. Washington will honor me with a 2 february 1901 384 & visit.Your struggles and triumphs are a grand character study for all young men of either race. My son Theodore will be proud to have his slight attentions and acquaintance with you in Paris mentioned in your book.With kind regards for Mrs. Washington and yourself Cordially yours Y L, in hand of E. L. White, Booker T. Washington Papers, DLC. Signed for ECS by E. L. White. 1. In a second attempt at autobiography, Booker Washington published chapters of Up from Slavery as a serial in the Outlook from 3 November 1900 to 23 February 1901. His error about the name of ECS’s son Theodore occurred in chapter sixteen, “Europe,” in the issue dated 16 February 1901. Washington corrected his mistake before publishing the book later in the year. ECS wrote a nearly identical letter about the mistake to the editor of the Outlook, published in the next issue. See Film, 41:954. 2. Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814–1869) was secretary of war from 1862 to 1868. 3. Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895), a major figure in the antislavery movement , worked closely with Henry Stanton in the 1830s and educated two of the Stanton boys at his Eagleswood School in the 1850s. ••••••••• 175 • ECS to Lillie Devereux Blake Feb. 19/1901— 250 West 94th St New York— Mrs. Devereux Blake President—National Legislative League It is a good sign of the growing popularity of the woman suffrage movement that so many new organizations are being formed in New York for specific work in various directions. The pioneers in starting advocated what all these associations now propose,and labored assiduously for each, appealing in turn with popular lectures and constitutional arguments to the people, the Leg[islature,] the church, and the State, for moral and financial aid. 1 A...

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