Later, she recalled that this war work convinced her that women needed the vote in order to influence politics and events, including as the best method to win temperance reforms.
She, like others, saw temperance as a women's issue, keeping women from poverty. Daniel Livermore gave up his newspaper in Chicago, and the family moved back to New England. Her lectures, from which she soon was making a living, took her around America and even several times to Europe on tour.
While spending part of her time away from home lecturing, she also spoke frequently in Universalist churches and continued other active organizational involvements. In , she helped found the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.
By , she gave up her editor position to focus on lecturing. In , she became president of the Association for the Advancement of Women, and from to served as president of the American Woman Suffrage Association. From to she was president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. Mary Livermore also continued her writing. In , Daniel Livermore died. Mary Livermore turned to spiritualism to try to contact her husband, and, through a medium, believed that she had made contact with him.
The census shows Mary Livermore's daughter, Elizabeth Marcia Elizabeth , living with her, and also Mary's younger sister, Abigail Cotton born and two servants.
She continued lecturing almost until her death in in Melrose, Massachusetts. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. There was strong prejudice against women as army nurses, and she experienced much opposition in her work.
Livermore also founded The Sanitary Commission and the association was largely indebted to her for its organized efforts. For thirteen years Mary Livermore delivered on an average of one hundred and fifty lectures per year. She spoke on a variety of topics including biography, history, politics, religion, temperance, and other reforms. You are sure God will receive you, and will welcome you? God will take care of me, even better than you have done!
If I die," she continued after a moment s hesitation, "be sure to tell Papa that I cannot remember once to have omitted my prayers, night or morning, in all my life, and that I read the Bible regularly just as he has planned it.
And tell Mamma to forgive me if I spoke fretfully when we drove to Dorchester last week, for I was very ill for a few moments, and didn't want her to know it. In an hour we were summoned to her bedside, for she was battling for her life with a cruel assault of pain that was unendurable. Two physicians were called, and both arrived at the same moment, but before they were able even to make a diagnosis of her case, she had passed into unconsciousness, and was gone.
My own home had been in Chicago for years, but my aged father was thought to be dying, and the stern speech of the telegram had summoned me to his bedside.
The daily papers teemed with the dreary records of succession. The Southern press blazed with hatred of the North, and with fierce contempt for her patience and her avowed desire for peace. Northern men and women were driven from Southern homes, leaving behind all their possessions, and thankful to escape with life. The day after arrival, came the news that Fort Sumter was attacked, which increased the feverish anxiety.
The telegraph, which had registered for the astounded nation the hourly progress of the bombardment, announced the lowering of the stars and stripes, and the surrender of the beleaguered garrison, the news fell on the land like a thunderbolt.
This proclamation was like the first peal of a surcharged thunder-cloud, clearing the murky air. The South received it as a declaration of war; the North as a confession that civil war had begun; and the whole North arose as one man. An immense concourse of people gathered in the neighborhood of the Boston and Albany railroad station to witness their departure. The great crowd was evidently under the influence of deep feeling, but it was repressed, and the demonstrations were not noisy.
Tears ran down not only the cheeks of women, but those of men; but there was no faltering. On one occasion, when going from ward to ward of a hospital, in Helena, Arkansas, I came upon a poor fellow evidently near death. He accepted my offer to write a letter to his mother, but, pointing to a comrade in the next bed, said,.
I doubted if he could wait, for already the pallor of death was overshadowing his face, and I urged him again saying:. But he persisted; "Take him first! Writing as rapidly as possible, I watched the brave fellow who had given up his last earthly comfort to his comrade, and who was failing fast.
Noticing that my eyes sought him constantly, he beckoned feebly to one of the nurses, who turned him in bed that I might not be disturbed by his whitening face and shortening breath.
And when I moved to his bedside to receive his dictation, he had passed beyond the need of my services. After the battle of Donelson, Mother Bickerdyke went from Cairo in the first hospital boat, and assisted in the removal of the wounded to Cairo, St.
Louis and Louisville, and in nursing those too badly wounded to be moved. On the way to the battlefield, she systematized matters perfectly. The beds were ready for the occupants, tea, coffee, soup and gruel, milk punch, and ice water were prepared in large quantities, under her supervision, and sometimes her own hand.
When the wounded were brought on board, mangled almost out of human shape; the frozen ground from which they had been cut adhering to them; chilled with the intense cold in which some had lain for twenty-four hours; faint with loss of blood, physical agony, and lack of nourishment; racked with a terrible five-mile ride over frozen roads, in ambulances, in common Tennessee farm wagons, without springs; burning with fever; raving in delirium, or in the faintness of death, Mother Bickerdyke's boat was in readiness for them.
In January, , at my own cost and risk, I established a woman suffrage paper, The Agitator , which, from the start, espoused the temperance cause, as well as that of woman suffrage. I conducted the paper for a year, and with the help of my husband, who took charge of the business, made it a success, and lost no money. Lucy Stone, and a joint stock company was formed for its weekly publication.
I was invited to merge my paper in this new and promising advocate of the suffrage reform, and to become its editor-in-chief. I accepted the invitation with much hesitation.
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