When you consider how much that amount of money would buy, in that age and country, and how usual it was to be scrofulous, when not dead, you would understand that the annual king's-evil appropriation was just the River and Harbor bill of that government for the grip it took on the treasury and the chance it afforded for skinning the surplus.
It happened in Rochester, New York on November 5, 1872, and the event--and the trial for illegal voting that followed--would create a opportunity for Anthony to spread her arguments for women suffrage to a wider audience than ever before. The Vote. Anthony had been planning to vote long before 1872.
In 1851, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at an anti-slavery meeting in Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton had begun campaigning for womenâs rights in 1848 and was already a key figure in the suffrage movement. Although Anthony did not immediately become active in the suffrage movement, she and Stanton became life-long friends, inspiring each other to fight for change and equality. In September, 1852, Anthony gave her first public speech at the National Womenâs Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York.