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a split in our ranks will not look [unclear} in Europe & I do want our movement to look respectable in the eyes of the world. lovingly yours Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To the Ladies of the National W.S. Ass. for the May Convention 1870.
Dear friends, Although absent I am with you in spirit [some edited words in original] on the great days of our anniversary united with you in the same youthful inspiration and fervency [?] for our great cause as I was 20 years ago. Today I stand not alone as the representative of our old true Germany, for the hearts of thousands of my country women of the great Northwest, express through me today their confidence in the success of the enfranchise ment of women and their thanks to You,[underlined] brave workers in the cause. We all look forward with hope and thankfulness to the day which is already near and which we know will deliver us from all social evils and bring joy and salvation to all mankind, for the rescue of women is the last deliverance of [heaven?] ly. And if ignorance and stupidity [word illegible] Liberty will be endangered by the [emancipation?] of women and lead us deeper in the darkness of [word unclear], we
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we only have to ask: if the genius of mankind can become darker and more degraded, than it already has become in the secrets of the Vatican in Rome where no women is admitted. And when I appeal to men of weight and high position personally and by letter to be true and no longer be [word unclear] to themselves and the whole race, and further I appeal to men of distinction to be true to the spirit of their ancestors, the fathers of our nation and our pride [?], who proclaimed liberty to all and in all, which principles they obeyed in their earlier days, when it was for their own interest,--I would spare the blushes which shame will cover their faces, when triumph now & soon shall crown the strength of our demands and the power of our inalienable rights. We entered the [?word unclear] of the worlds history with those great working days of last year in the Capitol of Wash. and no power on earth can erase from its pages the names of E.C. Stanton and Sus. B Anthony. The great West believes in You, in universal freedom, founded on the corner stone, Universal Suffrage, Suffrage for women! Accept the salutation of my German country women, in the wish and the assurance of my most sincere regards Yours very truly Mathilde Franziska Anneke
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Milwaukee 15 Novbr 70
Madame Jenny d'Hericourt,
Just having received your letter my dear Madame d'Hericourt, I hesitate not one moment to say to you, that I will do what I can for your friend and hope to succeed in finding a situation for her, which will suit her.
How sad do I feel, my dear friend, that you [underlined] have been struck so hard by this tremendous calamity in Chicago. More or less has it fallen on all of us--but only now is the question how can [word unclear] shall we help each other!? You, who have done in life so much for us all, can we do nothing for you? Of course I would not ask, and rather ask before [word unclear?] but you may know, I am myself nothing more than a worker and wish as such one [remainder of line struck through]
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to do a little, united with all our friends, who are so much indebted to your great works in the [word unclear] work of humanity.
