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The History of Woman Suffrage Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The History of Woman Suffrage novel. A total of 713 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : History of Woman Suffrage.Volume I.by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Mati
History of Woman Suffrage.Volume I.by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.PREFACE.In preparing this work, our object has been to put into permanent shape the few scattered reports of the Woman Suffrage Movement still to be fo
- 101 3d. _Resolved_, That for the men of this land to claim for themselves the elective franchise, and the right to choose their own rulers and enact their own laws, as essential to their freedom, safety, and welfare, and then to deprive all the women of all t
- 102 Elizabeth Wilson, Mary Cowles, Benjamin S. Jones, Mary A. Johnson, Maria L. Giddings, Lucius A. Hine, Oliver Johnson, Jane Elizabeth Jones, Sylvia Cornell.RESOLUTIONS.Wendell Phillips presented, from the Business Committee, the following resolutions: _Res
- 103 Southwick, Joseph A. Howland, Adeline H. Howland, O. T. Harris, Julia T. Harris, John M. Spear, E. D. Draper, D. R. P. Hewitt, L. C.Wilkins, J. H. Binney, Mary Adams, Anna Goulding, E. A. Parrington, Mrs. Parrington, Harriot K. Hunt, Chas. F. Hovey, Mrs.
- 104 CHAPTER IX.INDIANA._Dublin Convention, October, 1851._ RESOLUTIONS._Resolved_, That all laws and customs having for their perpetuation the only plea that they are time-honored, which in any way infringe on woman's equal rights, cramp her energies, cr
- 105 Very truly yours, ELIZABETH BLACKWELL.LETTER FROM PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS.It is also often asked if women want more rights, why do they not take them? Let us see how that may be. Does a woman desire a _thorough_ medical education, where is the inst.i.tution
- 106 CHAPTER XI.LUCRETIA MOTT'S FUNERAL.Lueretia Mott died at her quiet home, "Roadside," near Philadelphia, Nov. 11, 1880. Notwithstanding the a.s.sociated Press dispatch said, "Funeral strictly private by special request," the attend
- 107 It is into hands like these--to these who have calmly met the terrible emergencies of life--who, without the inspiration of glory, or fame, or applause, through long years have faithfully and bravely performed their work, self-sustained and cheered, that
- 108 And now, tell me, friends, if the picture of that youthful affection, strengthened and intensified in the hearts of both by long years of unavailing regret, does not awaken in you a conviction of some better way for protecting helpless women and children
- 109 It gives the written speeches quite full, but only the skeleton of the spoken ones, which in reality const.i.tuted the cream of the affair....This portion of the world's history in relation to these agitating questions, is very appropriately treated
- 110 The Committee have on hand a variety of Woman's Rights Tracts, written by S. J. May, Wendell Phillips, Elizabeth C. Stanton, Mrs. C. I. H.Nichols, Ernestine L. Rowe, T. W. Higginson, and others. Also, the Reports of the several National Woman's
- 111 Mr. HATTELLE moved that a Committee be at once appointed to draft such a memorial, which was adopted.WENDELL PHILLIPS rose to offer as an amendment, that a recommendation go forth from this Convention to the women of each State, to inaugurate their presen
- 112 WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE, 1857.WISCONSIN REPORT ON THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION.--The following extract from the report on the extension of the right of suffrage in Wisconsin, we find in _The Milwaukee Free Democrat_: "Perhaps no question ever submitted to a c
- 113 "We, the undersigned, therefore, pet.i.tion your honorable body to take the necessary steps for a revision of the Const.i.tution, so that all citizens may enjoy equal political rights."Your Committee have given the subject referred to them a car
- 114 _Resolved_, That the Judiciary Committee be instructed to report to the Senate, a bill to submit to the qualified electors at the next election for senators and representatives, an amendment to the Const.i.tution whereby the elective franchise shall be ex
- 115 History of Woman Suffrage.Volume II.Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.PREFACE.In presenting to our readers the second volume of the "History of Woman Suffrage," we gladly return our thanks to the press f
- 116 Clara Barton was the youngest child of Capt. Stephen Barton, of Oxford, Ma.s.s., a non-commissioned officer under "Mad Anthony Wayne."Captain Barton, who was a prosperous farmer and leader in public affairs, gave his children the best opportunit
- 117 I fully concur in the above, and hope that Mrs. Griffing will receive a conspicuous place in the Freedman's Bureau. She is the best qualified of any person within my knowledge; her whole heart is in the work.B. F. WADE, SOLOMON FOOT, IRA HARRIS, E. D
- 118 The following letter from William Lloyd Garrison to Giles B. Stebbins, then in Was.h.i.+ngton, corroborates the above statements: ROXBURY, Ma.s.s., _March 4, 1872_.MY DEAR FRIEND: ... I was glad to see the well-merited tributes paid by yourself and others
- 119 And thus it was from time to time that this remarkable girl uttered the highest thought in American politics in that crisis of our nation's history. While in camp and hospital she spoke words of tenderness and love to the sick and dying, she did not
- 120 MRS. HOYT: In Madison we had a very large and flouris.h.i.+ng "Soldiers' Aid Society." We were the headquarters for that part of the State. A great many ladies worked in our Aid Society, and a.s.sisted us, who utterly refused to join with t
- 121 2. To gratuitously establish slavery forever, by solemn and unchanging guarantees.3. To leave slavery to perish slowly and ingloriously, as it must when unprotected.4. To cripple and destroy slavery by a long guerrilla warfare against its special manifest
- 122 To this end, as a means of educating the people, we sent out twenty thousand emanc.i.p.ation pet.i.tions, with tracts and appeals, into different districts of the free States, and into the slave States wherever our armies had opened the way.The Woman'
- 123 The lessons of the war were not lost on the women of this nation; through varied forms of suffering and humiliation, they learned that they had an equal interest with man in the administration of the Government, enjoying or suffering alike its blessings o
- 124 [30] The impeachment trial of President Johnson [31] _Forney's Press_, in reporting a meeting at Kennett Square, said: "Miss Anna E. d.i.c.kinson, of Philadelphia, aged seventeen years, handsome, of an expressive countenance, plainly dressed, an
- 125 Swisshelm must not be forgotten. Three n.o.ble daughters, with hand and heart devoted to the work, made it possible for Josephine S. Griffing to accomplish what she did in the Freedman's Bureau. With Anna d.i.c.kinson stood hosts of women identified
- 126 The yeas and nays were ordered.Mr. ANTHONY: I move that the Senate do now adjourn. ["Oh, no!"]Mr. WILSON: I hope not.The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: The motion is not debatable and must be put unless withdrawn.The motion was agreed to; and the Senate
- 127 When I look along the pavements and about the walks and see them lounging, I am free to say that, without having been previously enlightened on the subject by so much as we have heard upon it recently, I should have had great doubts about conferring on th
- 128 But I say to the Senator from Pennsylvania that while these are my opinions, while I will vote now or at any time for woman suffrage, if he or any other Senator will offer it as a distinct, separate measure, I am unalterably opposed to connecting that que
- 129 SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: The unfinished business is the bill (S.No. 1) to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia which is now before the Senate as in Committee of the Whole. The pending question is on the mot
- 130 In the House, January 28, 1867, Mr. Noell, of Missouri, introduced a bill to amend the suffrage act of the District of Columbia, which, after the second reading, he moved should be referred to a select committee of five, and on that motion demanded the pr
- 131 Mr. BROOKS: I suggested that I would move it at a convenient time.Mr. STEVENS: Is the gentleman in favor of his own amendment?Mr. BROOKS: I am in favor of my own color in preference to any other color, and I prefer the white women of my country to the neg
- 132 I answer, because the questions are one and the same. We are not now discussing merely the right of suffrage for the African, or his status as a new-born citizen. Claiming his rights compels us to discuss the whole underlying question of government. This
- 133 Lamartine said, "Universal Suffrage is the first truth and only basis of every national republic."In regard to "Taxation without representation," Mr. Sumner quotes from Lord c.o.ke: The Supreme Power cannot take from any man any part o
- 134 "Our Woman's Rights Convention has now taken the broad platform of 'Equal Rights,' and upon that will work in time to come. And our meeting in New York seemed proof--if proof was wanting--that all we need now is to ask and receive. Our
- 135 Rev. SAMUEL J. MAY said: I wish to give my testimony most earnestly and solemnly to the conviction, which has continually increased in my soul since my attention was first called to the subject, that this is a fundamental question. How can we expect that
- 136 He made himself master of almost half the globe. The reign of Napoleon was an earthquake which, for fifteen years, shook the sea and the land, carrying down innumerable human lives in the general cataclysm. But he sunk at last! He aspired to the very heav
- 137 Mrs. STANTON said: That is equaled only by the condition of the women by their side. There is a depth of degradation known to the slave women that man can never feel. To give the ballot to the black man is no security to the woman. Saxon men have the ball
- 138 Why do you scold us, poor weak women, for being fas.h.i.+onable and dressy, when snares are set at every corner to tempt us? What would become of your dry-goods merchants and your commerce if we did not wear handsome dresses--if the women of this country
- 139 ART. VIII.--This const.i.tution may be amended, at any regular meeting of the Society, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, provided the amendments proposed have been previously submitted in writing to the Executive Committee, at least one mont
- 140 The Battle Ground of Freedom--Campaign of 1867--Liberals did not Stand by their Principles--Black Men Opposed to Woman Suffrage--Republican Press and Party Untrue--Democrats in Opposition--John Stuart Mill's Letters and Speeches Extensively Circulate
- 141 Very truly, LUCY STONE.In a letter dated Atchison, May 9, 1867, Lucy Stone says: I should be so glad to be with you to-morrow, and to know this minute whether Phillips has consented to take the high ground which sound policy as well as justice and statesm
- 142 (That's so.) Mr. TRAIN at Leavenworth, the day before the election: "A great empire, and little minds go ill together," said Lord Bacon. "The sober second thought of the people," said Van Buren, "is never wrong, and always ef
- 143 Many of the leading men were advocates of women's rights.Governor Robinson, S. N. Wood, and Erastus Heath, with their wives, were constant and efficient workers. Mrs. Robinson wrote a book on "Life in Kansas." "Allibone's Dictiona
- 144 We wondered then at the general indifference to that first opportunity of realizing what all those gentlemen had advocated so long; and, in looking back over the many intervening years, we still wonder at the stolid incapacity of all men to understand tha
- 145 [87] See Appendix.[88] Mrs. Gov. Charles Robinson, Mrs. Lieut-Gov. J. P. Root, Mrs. R.B. Taylor, Mrs. Mary T. Gray--whose husbands were also active workers--Mrs. Lucy B. Armstrong, Mrs. Judge Humphrey, Mrs. Starrett, Mrs. Archibald, Mrs. Elsie Stewart, &q
- 146 The demand we to-day make, is not the idiosyncrasy of a few discontented minds, but a universal movement. Woman is everywhere throwing off the lethargy of ages, and is already close upon you in the whole realm of thought--in art, science, literature and g
- 147 Mr. CURTIS said: In proposing a change so new to our political practice, but so harmonious with the spirit and principles of our Government, it is only just that I should attempt to show that it is neither repugnant to reason nor hurtful to the State. Yet
- 148 It is not good for man to be alone. United with woman in the creation of human society, their rights and interests in its government are identical, nor can the highest and truest development of society be reasonably conceived, so long as one s.e.x a.s.sum
- 149 ELIZABETH A. KINGSLEY, of Philadelphia, CHARLES BURLEIGH, Rev.HENRY BLANCHARD and Mrs. ROSE made brief addresses.FREDERICK DOUGLa.s.s deprecated the seeming a.s.sertion of Rev. O. B.Frothingham, that one good cause was in opposition to another. I champion
- 150 Mr. HAMMOND--Mrs. J. C. Holmes and many others from Westchester County._July 10th._--Mr. TUCKER--A pet.i.tion from a large number of men and women for extending the right of suffrage to woman.Mr. GRAVES--Fifty-four ladies of New York City, asking suffrage
- 151 Section 1. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege
- 152 Mr. Julian, in the House, on leave, introduced the following bill further to extend the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress a.s.sembled, That f
- 153 Since our famous Bill of Rights was given to the world declaring all men equal, there has been no other proposition, in its magnitude, beneficence, and far-reaching consequences, so momentous as this. The specific work now before us, is to press the impor
- 154 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, MRS. HORACE GREELEY,} _Central Com._ SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ABBY HOPPER GIBBONS, } _To the President and Members of the National Democratic Convention_: GENTLEMEN:--I address you by letter to ask the privilege of appearing before you du
- 155 Mrs. Stanton's speech the first evening of the convention gave a fair statement of the hostile feelings of women toward the amendments; we give the main part of it. Of all the other speeches, which were extemporaneous, only meagre and unsatisfactory
- 156 The proceedings were opened with prayer by Dr. Gray, the Chaplain of the Senate, a man of remarkably liberal spirit. This prayer, however, did not give perfect satisfaction. Going back to the beginning of things, the doctor unfortunately chanced to take,
- 157 SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 21.DEAR REVOLUTION:--We have been resting here at the capital of Illinois a few days. Of our meeting in the Opera House we will say nothing about it, except that we had the Governor and members of the Legislature as attentive listeners,
- 158 Mr. FOSTER:--What are these principles? The equality of men--universal suffrage. These ladies stand at the head of a paper which has adopted as its motto Educated Suffrage. I put myself on this platform as an enemy of educated suffrage, as an enemy of whi
- 159 Miss ANTHONY: And Lucretia Mott.Mrs. DAVIS: Yes, and Lucretia Mott; and I love to speak of them in a.s.sociation. Mrs. Rose has alluded to the primary steps she took, and there were Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, and Paulina Wri
- 160 Conventions were held during the summer at Saratoga and Newport. The following letter from Celia Burleigh gives a bird's-eye view of that at Saratoga: SARATOGA, July 16th, 1869.The advocates of Woman Suffrage have fairly earned the t.i.tle of Revolut
- 161 Woman's enfranchis.e.m.e.nt is now a practical question in England and the United States. With bills before Parliament, Congress, and all our State Legislatures--with such able champions as John Stuart Mill and George William Curtis, woman need but s
- 162 Article 2. Its object shall be to secure the Ballot to the women of the nation on equal terms with men.Article 3. Any citizen of the United States favoring this object, shall, by the payment of the sum of one dollar annually into the treasury, be consider
- 163 Extracts from the Const.i.tution of the United States, upon which the resolutions are based: PREAMBLE, We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defe
- 164 When, on that March day of 1867, the negroes of the District first voted, with what anxiety did the people wait, and with what joy did they read the glad tidings, flashed over the wires the following morning! And the success of that first election in this
- 165 She claimed the right of self-rule or self-government as a natural right. Men were united in saying, "We have the right to vote." She was not present to be an advocate of woman's rights, whatever they may be, but of human rights. The larges
- 166 Stanton and Miss Anthony should resign their offices for a season, and place some popular man at the head of the National Society. They readily a.s.sented, hoping thereby to heal the division so distracting to friends in every State, and unite all the for
- 167 The following letters were read: 26 HEREFORD SQUARE, LONDON.DEAR MADAM:--I received your kind letter some weeks ago, and beg to apologize for the delay of this reply. Pray accept my thanks for your kind expressions regarding my small efforts to keep alive
- 168 MY DEAR MRS. DAVIS AND MRS. STANTON:--Will you kindly let me answer both your notes together, and a.s.sure you how much I value the feeling which prompted you to write them. I shall not easily part with either of those letters, although pressure of work d
- 169 The effect of the amendments to the Const.i.tution must be to annul the power over this subject in the States, whether past, present, or future, which is contrary to the amendments. The amendments would even arrest the action of the Supreme Court in cases
- 170 But, ladies and gentlemen, aside from badinage, for the subject is too grave and too solemn, it comes back to this thing. The Const.i.tution of the United States solemnly declares that every person born and naturalized in the United States, and within its
- 171 _In the matter of the Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull, referred by the House to the Committee on the Judiciary, the undersigned, members of the Committee, being unable to agree to the report of the Committee, present the following as their views upon the
- 172 The authorities cited by the majority of the Committee do not seem to meet the case--certainly do not sustain their theory.The case of Cooper _vs._ The Mayor of Savannah (4 Geo., 72), involved the question whether a free negro was a citizen of the United
- 173 "To provide for the common defense." We have seen that the only defense the citizen has against oppression and wrong is by his voice and vote in the selection of rulers and law makers. Does it, then, "provide for the common defense," t
- 174 GENTLEMEN: The National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee desire me to express to you their heartfelt thanks for the good service you have rendered the whole woman movement by your willingness to entertain, examine, and, in some instances, advocate
- 175 Women are offering their very souls in behalf of mankind. Can men do less than empty their pockets for the good of the race?And there is one thing more that men can and must do before the reign of justice and equality can be inaugurated. They, being voter
- 176 Our conclusion, stated in a few words, is this: All women are citizens. Every citizen, in the language of Judge Daniel in the Dred Scott case, has "the actual possession and enjoyment or the perfect right of acquisition and enjoyment of an entire equ
- 177 Sir, I recognize the fact that I have no right at this time to trespa.s.s on the business and indulgence of the House to argue the momentous question involved in this memorial, but I present this pet.i.tion of 35,000 women of America, from almost every St
- 178 Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY--DEAR MADAM:.... Accept my a.s.surance of full and cordial sympathy with the movement to extend the right of suffrage to the women of the country, and my pledge to make that sympathy active on the first and all occasions that may ari
- 179 Amendments. The act of May, 1870, the very t.i.tle of which, "An Act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote," is a concession of all that we claim, provides that the officers of elections throughout the United States shal
- 180 [150] The speakers were Rev. Olympia Brown, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Susan B. Anthony, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dr.Clemence S. Lozier, Helen M. Sloc.u.m, Lillie Devereux Blake.[Ill.u.s.tration: Belva A. Lockwood.]CHAPTER XXIV.NATIONAL
- 181 The original Const.i.tution in its fourth article touches upon State control, for it declares that the Const.i.tution shall guarantee to every State a republican form of government. The "shall" is imperative. It shall! Even as long ago as 1787 i
- 182 WAs.h.i.+NGTON, Jan. 17.This convention, of which I sent you some account in my last letter, adjourned last night, _sine die_. Lincoln Hall has been crowded at all the sessions except one, when an admission fee was charged. And the admission fee worked up
- 183 [Ill.u.s.tration: Ellen Clark Sargent.]We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Now, I
- 184 Mr. SARGENT.--We will the first time we get a chance.Mr. STEWART.--The Senator from North Carolina asks, "Why not try it here?" The question has been suggested whether there is not a const.i.tutional reason for not trying it here, and that const
- 185 Moreover, it a.s.sociates the wife and mother with policies of State, with public affairs, with making, interpreting, and executing the laws, with police and war, and necessarily disseverates her from purely domestic affairs, peculiar care for and duties
- 186 Mr. MORTON: It is merely putting an extreme case to say that a woman twenty-five years of age shall not have the right to vote because if she votes the child in her arms has the right to vote.Is there any force in that?Mr. EDMUNDS: I have not put any case
- 187 Mr. EDMUNDS.--I renew the motion to lay the bill on the table.Mr. SARGENT.--On that motion I ask for the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered.Mr. RAMSEY.--I should like to appeal to the Senator from Vermont to withdraw the motion for five minutes
- 188 Mr. EDMUNDS.--That is enough for me.Mr. RAMSEY.--There is nothing new in that.The question being taken by yeas and nays, resulted--yeas 19, nays 29; as follows: YEAS--Messrs. Bogy, Boreman, Chandler, Clayton, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Harvey, Hitchc.o.
- 189 _Resolved_, That in the prosecution and trial of Susan B. Anthony, a citizen of the United State, for having cast a ballot at the last election, the Government of the United States declares it is a crime to vote, thus attempting to undermine the very foun
- 190 [162] Rev. O. B. Frothingham, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Rev. Olympia Brown, Lillie Devereux Blake, Carrie S. Burnham, Mrs. Stanton, and Miss Anthony.[163] Matilda Joslyn Gage, President; Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vice-Presidents; Henrietta P. W
- 191 This was a claim to be entered on the St. Giles' list of occupiers for the borough, under the "Representation of the People Act, 1867," s. 3; the claimant's name, in common with those of all female occupiers, having been omitted by the
- 192 On July 21st, 1871, Ellen Rand Van Valkenburg, of Santa Cruz, California, having applied for registration and been refused, brought suit against Albert Brown, of Brown County, who acted as Register upon this occasion. Although later suits exceeded this in
- 193 Secondly, who are capable of becoming agents? And here it may be stated that there are few persons who are excluded from acting as agents, or from exercising an authority delegated to them by others. Therefore, it is by no means necessary for a person to
- 194 The hiatus between the premise and the conclusion is too wide for us to bridge. It may be desirable that the Legislature should relieve married women from all their common law disabilities. But to say that it has done so in the Act of 1861, the language o
- 195 But the XIV. and XV. Amendments seem to settle this question against the right of female suffrage. These amendments seem to recognize the distinction at first pointed out between "privileges and immunities," and the right to vote. The XIV.Amendm
- 196 The statute of Illinois on this subject enacts that no person shall be permitted to practice as an attorney or counselor-at-law, or to commence, conduct, or defend any action, suit, or plaint, in which he is not a party concerned, in any court of record w
- 197 James Madison said: Under every view of the subject, it seems indispensable that the ma.s.s of the citizens should not be without a voice in making the laws which they are to obey, and in choosing the magistrates who are to administer them.Also, Let it be
- 198 The question of the masculine p.r.o.nouns, yes and nouns too, has been settled by the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Silver _vs._ Ladd, December, 1868, in a decision as to whether a woman was ent.i.tled to lands under the Oregon donation law
- 199 That women who have no voice nor vote in the electing of representatives, do not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to men who have votes and their representatives; for to be enslaved is to have governors whom men have set over us, and to be subje
- 200 _Q._ Was there an election for member of Congress from that district and for Representative at large in Congress, for the State of New York, held on the 5th of November, in the city of Rochester? _A._ I think there was; yes, sir._Q._ In what Congressional