Many
houses were draped in black, and the grief of the
citizens manifested itself on every side. All the way
to Mount Hope Cemetery the snow whirled blind-
ingly around us, while the masses that had fallen
covered the earth as far as we could see a fitting
winding-sheet for the one who had gone. Under the
fir-trees around her open grave I obeyed ``Aunt
Susan's'' wish that I should utter the last words
spoken over her body as she was laid to rest:
``Dear friend,'' I said, ``thou hast tarried with us
long. Now thou hast gone to thy well-earned rest.
We beseech the Infinite Spirit Who has upheld thee
to make us worthy to follow in thy steps and to
carry on thy work. Hail and farewell.''
XI
THE WIDENING SUFFRAGE STREAM
In my chapters on Miss Anthony I bridged the
twenty years between 1886 and 1906, omitting
many of the stirring suffrage events of that long
period, in my desire to concentrate on those which
most vitally concerned her. I must now retrace my
steps along the widening suffrage stream and de-
scribe, consecutively at least, and as fully as these
incomplete reminiscences will permit, other inci-
dents that occurred on its banks.
Of these the most important was the union in
1889 of the two great suffrage societies--the Ameri-
can Association, of which Lucy Stone was the presi-
dent, and the National Association, headed by Susan
B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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