ELIZABETH CADY STANTON TO FREDERICK DOUGLASS

[New York, N.Y.] 8 Jan[uary] 1867.

464. West 34th.

DEAR DOUGLASS,

Do you intend to go with me before the Legislature the middle of this
month[?] I should like to know as soon as possible[.] If we go together of
course I should make a shorter speech & cover less ground than if I go
alone, & I should like to have some talk with you about the whole matter.
I was so sorry not to see you when in the city. I hope if it is possible you
will be in Albany, for both our claims should be set off in the strongest
way & you can attack the property qualification with all the force of your
sarcasm far better than I could, who am a long stride behind even that.
Please answer immediately & do say you will be there. Have you seen in
the Daily Globe all the discussion on the District of Colombia bill!¹Stanton alludes to newspaper reports in the Washington of the final congressional deliberation over the bill to enfranchise residents of the District of Columbia. Unfortunately, the January 1867 copies of the have not survived. The bill was passed in December 1866, but President Johnson vetoed it on 5 January 1867. The Senate and House overrode that veto on 7 and 8 January 1867, respectively. Robert Harrison, (Cambridge, Eng., 2011), 120–33. grand!

Good night your friend

E CADY STANTON

P.S. I have just received a letter from Louise De Mortie²Born to free black parents in Norfolk, Virginia, Louise De Mortie (c. 1833–67) moved to Boston in 1853, where she received an education. She married the African American abolitionist John Oliver and joined the antislavery ranks as a lecturer and singer. After divorcing Oliver, De Mortie moved to New Orleans in 1863, where she established an orphanage for African American children. She became the manager of the city’s Colored Orphan Home and traveled in the North periodically to raise funds for its operation. Jessie Carney Smith, ed., , 3 vols. (1991–2002), 2:173–76; Gordon, , 2: 345. she is to be here
this week

ALS: General Correspondence File, reel 9, frames 213–15, FD Papers, DLC. Other text in Gordon, Selected Papers of Stanton and Anthony, 2:11–13.