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This brought on a fearful crisis, in which my husband threatened suicide; but I was firm, and he concluded to rent the mills and take me away. This he did. His father lived but a few months, and died on the second anniversary of our marriage. He lies buried in the ground he donated as "God's acre," with only this inscription at his head: "John Swisshelm, aged 86."
Fleeson, then a clerk on the Journal, stepped out, hat in hand, and bowing to the proprietor, said: "Mr. Riddle, it is your privilege to see Mrs. Swisshelm to her lodgings, but as you seem to decline, I hope you will commission me." Mr. Fleeson was a small man and Mr. Riddle had drawn himself to his full height and stood looking down at him, saying: "I want it distinctly understood that Mrs.
Instead of shame there came such a crop of glory that I thought of pulling down my barns and building greater, that I might have where to store my new goods. Among the press notices copied by the Journal was this: "The Pittsburg Commercial Journal has a new contributor who signs her name 'Jane G. Swisshelm, dips her pen in liquid gold, and sands her paper with the down from butterflies' wings."
Swisshelm. "It is not Mrs. Swisshelm's voice?" "It is not William Griffin's voice." Then, for the first time, there were signs of a multitude on the porch, and with an oath the speaker replied: "We want that slave." "You cannot have her."
When I returned to Washington, I found an official document, a recommendation from the Quarter-Master General, of my dismissal for absence without leave. It was addressed to Secretary Stanton, who had written on the outside: "Respectfully referred to Mrs. Swisshelm, by Edwin M. Stanton." I went back to work, and learned that Mrs. Gen. Barlow had died of typhoid fever, in Washington.
Swisshelm published in her "Saturday Visitor" the results of her investigations of spirit rappers at Christina Beil's mediumship. She thought, that raps must have been produced by some trick of one or the other mortal, although she was not able to discover the trick. The same confession was made in German newspapers by a German Lutheran Pastor.
Johnson; was without visible means of support, could not suddenly adjust my thought to anything so foreign to all my plans as coming into possession of a valuable estate, and said: "Oh, Secretary Stanton, how shall I ever undertake such a stewardship at my time of life?" He looked sternly at me, and replied: "Mrs. Swisshelm, don't be a fool! take care of yourself! It is time you would begin.
At the end of the second year he proposed to buy my interest, unite the Visiter with his weekly, and pay me a salary for editing a page. Had the proposal been made directly to me, I should have accepted at once, but it was made through my brother-in-law, William Swisshelm, who had been clerk and business manager of the Visiter for eighteen months.
When it was time to go to the meeting, I was dressed by other hands than my own. I knew Harry and my brother-in-law, Henry Swisshelm, had organized for defense, and asked no questions, but went with them. Elizabeth carried her camphor bottle as coolly as if mobs and public meetings were things of every day life, while Mrs.
Swisshelm has seized some of these dilettante literary women with her metaphysical tweezers, and held them up to scorn for their ridicule of the Woman Suffrage conventions, yet in her own recently published work, in her mature years, she vouchsafes no words of approval for those who have inaugurated the greatest movement of the centuries. ... It is quite evident from her last pronunciamento that she has no just appreciation of the importance and dignity of our demand for justice and equality.
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