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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tri(173)

Author:Kate Moore

10“red with the”: Ibid., 108.

11“so convulsed her” and following quotations: Ibid., 228.

12“their hands and feet” and following quotations: Testimony of Miss Kane, former attendant at the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, Report of the Investigating Committee (1867), 38.

13“silly behaviour”: Quoted in Matthew Smith, “The Healing Waters: The Long History of Using Water to Cure Madness,” Psychology Today, October 9, 2015, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/short-history-mental-health/201510/the-healing-waters.

14“convenience” and following quotations: AM, “The Better Way,” 17.

15“but to confess”: AM, “Appendix,” in Special Report of the Trustees, 103.

16“The best attendants”: Dr. John E. Tyler, “On the Care of the Violent Insane,” read as part of “Proceedings of the Twelfth,” 73.

17“No humane regulations”: AM, “The Better Way,” 28.

18“never to be”: Report of the Investigating Committee (1867), quoted in MP2, 263.

19“the right of”: Ibid.

20“The remark is”: AM, in “Eighth Biennial Report,” 360.

21“in proportion as”: Testimony of Dr. Richard J. Patterson before the investigating committee, in Special Report of the Trustees, 77.

22“on the best”: Appendix, “Extracts from Rules and Regulations Referred to in this Report,” Chapter XI: Supervisors and Their Especial Duties, in ibid., 108.

23“Giving vent to”: EP, GD, 4:103.

24“where [their] word”: Lake, “Testimony of Mrs. Caroline E. Lake,” in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 140, in PHL, page 494 in PDF.

25“mere phantoms”: EP, PHL, 210–11.

26“It is of”: Lake, “Testimony of Mrs. Caroline E. Lake,” in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 141, in PHL, page 495 in PDF.

27“What is an”: EP, PHL, 122.

28“The record of”: Ibid., 175.

29“You cannot imagine”: Ibid., 201.

30“this field of”: Ibid., 136.

CHAPTER 24

1“An appeal in”: “Appeal” (June 18, 1862), reproduced in Mrs. Packard’s Reproof, 22.

2“at the request”: Mrs. Packard’s Reproof, 22.

3“burden”: J. C. and Celia Coe, “Appeal,” reproduced in Mrs. Packard’s Reproof, 27.

4“large, coarse”: EP, PHL, 206.

5“an expression of”: SO, MO, 46, in PHL, page 400 in PDF.

6“I have many”: Ibid., 52, in PHL, page 406 in PDF.

7“[I] found Miss”: J. C. and Celia Coe, “Appeal,” reproduced in Mrs. Packard’s Reproof, 23–24.

8“until their faces”: Ibid., 25.

9“It is the”: Ibid.

10“May this mute”: Ibid., 27.

11“in readiness”: Ibid.

12“How would you”: EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 133.

13“If Dr. McFarland”: Mrs. Grere, quoted by EP, PHL, 263.

CHAPTER 25

1“Madness was upon”: Elizabeth Van Lew, “Occasional Journal,” Van Lew Papers, New York Public Library, quoted in Karen Abbott, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (New York: Harper Perennial, 2015), 41.

2“entombed alive”: EP, PHL, 222.

3“of what is”: Ibid.

4“You may join”: EP, GD, 1:335.

5“dared to espouse” and following quotation: Ibid., 4:39.

6“giant evil”: EP, GD, 2:171.

7“The North may”: Ibid., 2:121.

8“For as is”: EP, TE, 156.

9“mischievous purposes”: AM, during his cross-examination of Dr. Richard J. Patterson before the investigating committee, quoted in Special Report of the Trustees, 79.

10“evil influences”: AM, “Appendix,” in Special Report of the Trustees, 101.

11“my treasures”: EP, PHL, 330.

12“insulting and abusive”: SO, MO, 44, in PHL, page 398 in PDF.

13“lift up my”: EP, TE, 117.

14“get out of”: EP, GD, 4:77.

15“temporal destiny entirely”: EP, PHL, 270.

16“My reason and”: Ibid., 259.

17“Still, there is”: Ibid.

18“If something is”: President Abraham Lincoln, in Harry Hansen, The Civil War: A History (New York: Penguin, 1991), 174.