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cessantly over reconstruction issues (see RE- 

 CONSTRUCTION). It was because Johnson tried 

 to remove his Secretary from office that the 

 former was impeached. After the President's 

 acquittal, Stanton resigned. President Grant 

 appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, but a few days after the appointment 

 Stanton died, worn out from overwork, an old 

 man at fifty-five. The struggle between Stan- 

 ton and the President is described more fully 

 in these volumes in the biography of Andrew 

 Johnson (see. page 3162) . 



Consult Flower's Edwin McMasters Stanton; 

 DeWitt'9 The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew 

 Johnson. 



STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY (1815-1902), an 

 American reformer, a pioneer in the cause of 

 woman suffrage, was born at Johnstown, N. Y. 

 She was graduated from Emma Willard Semi- 

 nary, in Troy, N. Y., and in 1840 was married 

 to Henry B. 

 Stanton, a man 

 prominent in the 

 antislavery agita- 

 tion. While vis- 

 iting in London 

 she met Lucretia 

 Mott, and it was 

 largely through 

 her influence that 

 Mrs. Stanton de- 

 cided to call a 

 woman's rights 

 convention at her 

 home in Seneca 

 Falls in 1848. This began her active public 

 career, during the course of which she con- 

 stantly championed equal rights for the two 

 sexes; that is, more specifically, more intelli- 

 gent divorce laws, equal rights of property and 

 of suffrage and equal educational advantages. 

 In 1861 she was made president of the Wom- 

 an's Loyal League, and was also the first presi- 

 dent of the National Woman's Suffrage Asso- 

 ciation, serving in that capacity from 1865 to 

 1893. 



Mrs. Stanton's lecture tours included the 

 United States, Canada, England, France and 

 Scotland. In 1888 she presided over the first 

 International Council of Women held in Wash- 

 ington. She was the founder, and for a time 

 the editor, of The Revolution, a reform period- 

 ical. A prominent feature of her life was the 

 attention she gave to the duties of her own 

 home, and her skill in avoiding any conflict 

 of public work with domestic life. Many of 



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the reforms she agitated are still unachieved, 

 but during her lifetime she witnessed great im- 

 provement in the status of women, principally 

 in educational lines, in matters relating to 

 woman's legal possession of personal property, 

 and in the struggle for equal suffrage. Her 

 writings embrace her autobiography, entitled 

 Eighty Years and More, and A History of 

 Woman Suffrage, of which she was joint author 

 with Susan B. Anthony and Mathilda Joslyn 

 Gage. 



In the group of social and political reformers of 

 the period of Mrs. Stanton's activity were such 

 devoted women as SUSAN B. ANTHONY, MARY A. 

 LIVERMORE, BELVA LOCKWOOD, LUCRETIA MOTT, 

 DR. ANNA SHAW and FRANCES WILLARD. These 

 will be found in their alphabetical order. See, 

 also, WOMAN SUFFRAGE. 



STANTON, FRANK LEBBY (1857- ), a 

 j ournalist and poet whose negro songs and verse 

 of the Southern United States have been very 

 popular. From his early youth, Stanton has 

 been in the field of journalism. He was born 

 in Charleston, S. C., and after receiving a com- 

 mon school education served an apprentice- 

 ship as a printer, at one' time in the employ- 

 ment of Joel Chandler Harris, one of the 

 South's most delightful writers, as an office boy. 



Stanton early became associated with the 

 press of Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of those 

 poet humorists who edit a column of wit and 

 satire on topics of present interest; his column 

 in The Atlanta Constitution he called "News 

 from Billville." Stanton is the author of sev- 

 eral volumes of poetry which for its charm, 

 simplicity and optimism is unique. If meas- 

 ured by the opinion of newspapers and critics, 

 the writings of few recent American poets have 

 been more popular, both in the United States 

 and Canada. Among the volumes of Stanton's 

 verse are Songs of the Soil, Songs from Dixie, 

 Up from Georgia and Little Folks Down South. 

 His One Country, an outburst of patriotism, 

 begins as follows: 



After all, 



One country, brethren ! We must rise or fall 

 With the Supreme Republic. We must be 

 The makers of her immortality 



Her freedom, fame, 

 Her glory or her shame : 

 Liegemen to God and fathers of the free ! 



After all- 

 Hark ! from the heights the clear strong clarion 



call 



And the command imperious : "Stand forth, 

 Sons of the South and brothers of the North ! 

 Stand forth and be 

 As one on soil and sea 

 Your country's honor more than empire's worth." 



