![]() ![]() Women were not welcome as public speakers in those days, and Mr. During the early days of the anti- slavery agitation Miss Anthony and her venerable associate, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, appeared at an anti-slavery meeting in which Frederick Douglass was taking a prominent part. One incident in connection with her relations with Mr. Douglass formed an intimate friendship when both resided in Rochester, N.Y., and that friendship had continued for many decades. She was very much averse to returning to the stage in Metzerott Hall, contending that it would appear unfeeling for her to do so, but as a number of the more distinguished members of the council were absent, she agreed to take her accustomed place to the right of the presiding officer. Despite her seventy-five years, she immediately announced her intention of going to the Douglass homestead, near Anacostia, and had actually started, when some of her friends, fearful that the journey, with its quota of bad roads, and the excitement of a visit to the presence of death would have a bad effect on her, used persuasion to such an extent that she finally consented to defer the trip until to-morrow. Miss Anthony has a wonderful control over her feelings, but to-night she could not conceal her emotion. ![]() Douglass’s death, at the evening session of the council, she was very much affected. Nothing to indicate that he was not in his usual good health was remarked at the time, and to-night, after his death was made known, nobody could recall anything in his appearance or actions out of the ordinary, except, according to the statement of a lady present, that he rubbed his left hand constantly with his right, as though it were benumbed. Douglass to the Council, and contenting himself with a bow in response to the applause that greeted the announcement, he took a seat beside Miss Anthony, his lifelong friend. Shaw a committee to escort him to the platform, where most of the delegates, not more than fifty in number, were sitting. May Wright Sewall, the President of the Council, she appointed Miss Susan B. Douglass was allowed to remain, and when the meeting had been called to order by Mrs. It was probably with a view to consistency in this respect that he appeared at Metzerott Hall.Īlthough it was a secret business session of the Council, Mr. Douglass was a regularly-enrolled member of the National Women’s Suffrage Association, and had always attended its conventions. ![]() This morning he drove into Washington from his residence, about a mile out from Anacostia, a suburb just across the eastern branch of the Potomac, and at 10 o’clock appeared at Metzerott Hall, where the Women’s National Council is holding its triennial. Douglass, that the very last hours of his life were given in attention to one of the principles to which he has devoted his energies since his escape from slavery. It is a singular fact, in connection with the death of Mr. No arrangements, she said, would be made for his funeral until his children could be consulted. Douglass said tonight that her husband had apparently been in the best of health lately, and had shown unusual vigor for one of his years. Douglass was to deliver a lecture tonight at Hillside African Church, near his home, and was waiting for a carriage when talking to his wife. Douglass passed away, seemingly without pain. ![]() Stewart Harrison, and while he was injecting a restorative into the patient’s arm, Mr. Some men who were near by quickly responded, and attempted to reassure the dying man. She was alone in the house, and rushed to the front door with cries for help. Realizing that he was ill, she raised his head, and then understood that he was dying. Douglass, thinking this was part of his description, was not alarmed, but as she looked he sank lower and lower, and finally lay stretched upon the floor, breathing his last. He grew very enthusiastic in his explanation of one of the events of the day, when he fell upon his knees, with hands clasped. After dining, he had a chat in the hallway with his wife about the doings of the council. She left him at the Congressional Library, and he continued to Metzerott Hall, where he attended the sessions of the Women’s Council in the forenoon and the afternoon, returning to Cedar Hill, his residence, between 5 and 6 o’clock. This morning he was driven to Washington, accompanied by his wife. He had been in the highest spirits, and apparently in the best of health, despite his seventy-eight years, when death overtook him. 20 - Frederick Douglass dropped dead in the hallway of his residence on Anacostia Heights this evening at 7 o’clock. ![]()
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