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Gilder Lehrman Document Number:
GLC03300
Title: to Henry W. Blair
Author: Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)
Year: 1888/01/07
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Type of document: Autograph letter signed
Description: Suggests strategies by which Blair can work with other women's rights supporters to add woman's suffrage to a proposed 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Written on National Woman Suffrage Association letterhead. Blair was a United States Senator from New Hampshire.
Full Text: [letterhead] National Woman Suffrage Association "Governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed" ; the ballot is consent, [board of directors] Phila. Pa, Jan 7, 1888 Dear Senator Blair, I see you presented our bill the first thing- Now who will prepare the report- if not yourself ? I have not written senator Chase and Bowen - about the matter- because I didn't think it would look a bit [ ill] - for me [2] to interfere with what is really our honored Chairman's business- Hence if you feel that you cannot prepare it- or that you want one of the others to take turn about- you will [inserted above: yourself] propose it to the one you choose- but really I do not think [inserted above: for] senator Bowen to do it will add weight to the testimony- this is (?) of course- but if Senator Chase would do it- his name would be a different one from yours or Palmers- and really would not at [inserted above] least lessen the weight of the reports already given But of course I leave this [3] matter wholly with you- I would say -however- confidentially- that I do not believe any one of the Congr. can do any better than your own self- thus our need of thought of getting either Mr Chase or Mr Palmer is that you may be relieved from the drudgery of doing it- So don't think that my suggestion of any other members making the report, than yourself is because I think any one else can make a better one or his name give more weight to it- for it is from no such cause that I have thus suggested!! You believe me - don't you? [4] But my main point in writing you - is to urge that you present the report at an early day- and then ask u[sic] give notice that you'll call it up for discussion & vote- at the earliest reasonable day What I meant to make sure of this session of this Congress- is that both Houses bring our 16th amendment to a discussion & vote- without fail- So as to give the women of the country- not only Womans suffrage women- but the Prohibition Party women- is to give the Republicans a chance to show their hand on the Womans Suffrage question- as a party- I know nothing will do so much to ensure their, the womens, praise & tears on the Republican side - as such showing- [5] I see - too - that the need has presented our will- It isnt worth while for us to have a hearing before the Committees- Do you think it is? Wont you send me a Congressional Directory- or [?]-with the House Committees- to 114 North 11th Street- Phila - I shall have to stop here a few days before going to Washington- unless you see & say I ought to be there [6] sooner- But the main thing now is to get the Com's of both Houses to report at once- I wish I could make the Republicans in Congress & State Legislatures see & believe how much good would come to their party- by speaking & acting as I have indicated to several of them- Sincerely yours Susan B. Anthony
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