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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tri(182)

Author:Kate Moore

9“Of the existence”: AM, official certificate regarding EP’s sanity, May 5, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 8, 1866.

10“The officers of”: AM, letter to TP, December 1863, quoted by Moore, GT, in MPE, 31.

11“The defence had”: Moore, letter to the editors, Boston Daily Advertiser, May 16, 1865, reproduced in MPE, 125.

12“I always said” and following quotations: Joseph E. Labrie, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 32–33.

13“Her insanity”: AM, official certificate regarding EP’s sanity, May 5, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 8, 1866.

14“[We would like]” and following quotations: Moore, GT, in MPE, 33.

15“unnatural”: Pastoral Letter, 1837, quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, 1:81.

16“fall in shame”: Ibid.

17“a lady of”: Moore, GT, in MPE, 13.

18“masculine thinker”: Ibid.

19“She drew all”: SO, MO, 72 in PHL, page 426 in PDF.

20“under the spell”: AM, letter to Mrs. Alma E. Eaton, in “Packard Controversy.”

21“I think we” and following quotations: EP, “How Godliness is Profitable,” in Moore, GT, in MPE, 34.

22“a murmur of”: Moore, ibid., 35.

23“I never thought”: Mr. Blessing, court testimony, ibid.

24“The popular verdict”: EP, MPE, 75.

25“the disorderly demonstrations”: Sybil T. Dole, Sarah Rumsey, J. B. Smith, and A. H. Dole, certificate supplied to TP, February 18, 1865, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 20, 1866.

26“vulgar hisses issued”: TP, “Account of the Insanity Case.”

27“surrounded by”: Account of the trial from “a highly respected gentleman,” quoted by TP in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 20, 1866.

28“feeble attempt”: TP, “Account of the Insanity Case.”

29“I never saw” and following quotations: Mrs. Haslett, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 36.

30“rabid, ferocious”: TP, “Account of the Insanity Case.”

31“It was unmistakably”: Ibid.

32“the bitter spirit”: Ibid.

33“lawless violence”: Ibid.

34“ready to sacrifice”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 45

1“I live here” and following quotations: Dr. Duncanson, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 37.

2“It has always”: EP, TE, 7.

3“So with Mrs.”: Dr. Duncanson, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 37–38.

4“I pronounce her”: Ibid., 38.

5“ably and at”: Moore, ibid.

6“a painful case”: TP, letter to editors, February 5, 1864, in “A Sad Case,” Gazette and Courier, February 8, 1864 [italics added].

7“venturesome driver”: EP, GD, 4:62.

8“likes to see”: Ibid.

9“We, the undersigned”: State of Illinois, Kankakee County, jury verdict, January 18, 1864, as reproduced in Moore, GT, in MPE, 38.

10“cheers rose”: Moore, ibid.

11“to have the”: Quoted in EP, MK, 22.

12“grateful joy”: EP, MP2, 204.

13“It is hereby”: State of Illinois, Kankakee County, official court order signed by Charles R. Starr, Judge of the 20th Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois, January 18, 1864, as reproduced in Moore, GT, in MPE, 39.

14“His troubles”: AM, letter to Mrs. Alma E. Eaton, in “Packard Controversy.”

15“death agonies”: EP, TE, 6.

16“soul and body”: Ibid.

17“living death of”: EP, MP2, 93.

18“I want to”: EP, MPE, 62.

19“I am thrown”: Ibid., 130.

CHAPTER 46

1“with the promise”: EP, MPE, 42.

2“grope about in”: EP, GD, 4:5.

3EP’s conversation with her lawyers: Recounted by EP in MPE, 46.

4“annihilates all”: EP, PHL, 309.

5“I am not”: Ibid., 114.

6“I…appealed to”: EP, MP2, 67.

7EP’s conversation with her lawyers: Recounted by EP, ibid., 265.

8“[I have] no”: EP, PHL, 126.

9“And can one”: EP, MPE, 47.

10“On the principle”: EP’s lawyers quoted by EP, MP2, 68.