Wisconsin Women's History

Woman Suffrage Association.

If I do visit your state, I hope I shall be able to do good work for you.

I am not acquainted with the leaders of the work there, but, have no doubt I can soon become so. I confess that I have a little shrinking feeling on account of the fact that Nebraska women do not want "foreign help." Mrs. Brooks has written to Mrs. Stone that the prejudice against foreign speakers has mostly passed away. I feel that we all owe it to the cause to help you there in this great struggle, and I shall come with the intention to do my best and trust to the kindness of your people to make it as pleasant for me as they can. I am not corresponding with any one there; Mrs. Stone is writing to them about it. It will give me great pleasure to meet you again and to help you all I am able to. Hoping for the success of the cause in Nebraska, I am yours sincerely Margaret H. Campbell.

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was a time in the history of our country when even Benedict Arnold was held in high esteem But enough of that, Mrs Stanton has seen as well as myself that the Nat "C Assn" has been on the downhill course for some years. Mrs. Stanton felt hampered in the free expression of her thought. I know many things I do not feel at liberty to repeat. Some years since she expressed herself that her work with Miss Anthony was nearly done, but as long as the latter wanted her and ["cried"?] and paid her expenses and entertainmt. she has been to NW.S.A conventions And she is pleased at the turn things have taken which leaves her a "free lance" "to work when she pleases,"

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Miss Anthony has been a good friend to the Tribune in the past She was so situated that she could be. I have faith in the Tribune: I think friends of whom you have no thought will and it on the future.

Thus I intend to say nothing more in reply to the items of your letter but on looking at it I must say one word lest I be misunderstood. It is no "rumor from Americans sources" that Miss Anthony will be President of the Union & it seems strange that I do not - if I do not - tell you my source of information when I wrote - Mrs Stanton was my

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informant, immediately after visit of Susan to her. Let that go, who cares? only I do not wish in any way to seem false.

I have a favor to ask. A circular or paper is to be issued - one or two, soon for gratuitous distribution, with reference to the forth-coming convention and its aims. There will be short articles from various [past ?]- Mrs Stanton Helen Gardner Rev Olympia [&c.,&c. ?] and I need the subscription list of the Tribune as it is eight years since The National Citizen ceased to be, many are dead and I wish the names of persons now living and interested to whom to send the circular I do not ask you to do this

DICTATED TO STENOGRAPHER.

United States Senate,

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan 13th 1890.

Mrs. Clara B. Colby,

1406 G St. N.W.

Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam:-

Your favor of the 12th instant is received. I will be pleased at any time to look at the bust of General Logan made by Mrs. Adelaide Johnson of this city. It is not however at all likely that anything will be done at this session of Congres [Congress] in the way of purchasing of additional works of art. In any event as I am not on the Committee on the Library who has charge of matters of this sort, I can do but little in the matter of procuring the purchase of meritorious works by Congress.

I know nothing of the dispute between Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Johnson and it is not a matter in which I can interfere. If Mrs. Johnson's work is a good one, it can stand good on its own merits without reference to the endorsements or condemnation of any one except the members of the Library Committee.

Truly Yours,

Charles F. Manderson

Exhibit A

Feb. 19 1890

Dear Friends and Fellow Workers: It is a grievous disappointment to me not to be with you on this first meeting of our united associations. But an obstinate cold keeps me away.

The time is full of encouragement for us. We look back to our small beginnings, and over the many years of constant endeavor to secure for women the application of the principles which are the foundation of representative government. Now we are a host. Both

Fayetteville N.Y. Mch 10/90

My dear Mrs. Colby,

The Tribune of the 8th just rec'd. Thanks for as much of a report as you have given but in "objects of the organization" you have left out the fifth one Are thus "of woman's inferiority & reason of her originalism, a doctrine which" all the above in quotation marks is omitted in The Tribune.

Perhaps I should not now mention it although it is a very important point - had not omissions been so long my experience in the Tribune.

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For instance, when elected Ch Ex Com in '88, the name of the Chairman in list of officers was omitted (and, for which you were not responsible, my name as Ch. Ex. Com on membership card)

Last winter my name appeared no where on list of officers of the assn I helped to form and in which I have done so much work for which I have written so many calls, appeals &c as well as speeches. At the Ex Com. meeting held at the Riggs Miss Anthony Indeed I was on as a member of the Ex. Com. If so, there was no official or Tribune announcement of such fact. Again, I was several times

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made it the subject is dedicatory poem to her. This poem with other proceedings in Mrs. Stanton' honor was published and widely circulated among suffragists and others in a magazine then edited by Elizabeth Boynton Herbert.

Having so far lost the ownership of my own brain-child I wrote the facts to the lady poet. From her I received a courteous answer regretting the mistake she had made and assuring me that in as far as possible she would correct it. Shortly thereafter I received a letter of entirely different spirit from Mrs. Stanton, upbraiding me for having claimed my own, &c.

Those suffragists to whom The Centennial Autograph Album is familiar will recollect that the first one

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or two pages are devoted to the autographs of early or prominent workers, each autograph accompanied by a sentiment especially significative of the writer's thought That of Lucretia Mott is "Truth for Authority and not Authority for Truth," Mrs. Stranton's of which the "tires" I have forgotten. My own which was also widely used upon the Centennial envelopes issued by the National Woman Suffrage Association during 1876, is "There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven; - that word is Liberty." This sentiment is especially expressive of my thought and of it I have never tired, for to me no word is, or ever can be as sweet as Liberty.

Matilda Joslyn Gage