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List of most recent chapters published for the History of Woman Suffrage novel. A total of 255 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : History of Woman Suffrage.by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Josly
History of Woman Suffrage.by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.VOL. I.1848-1861.PREFACE.In preparing this work, our object has been to put into permanent shape the few scattered reports of the Woman Suffrage Movement still
- 1 History of Woman Suffrage.by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.VOL. I.1848-1861.PREFACE.In preparing this work, our object has been to put into permanent shape the few scattered reports of the Woman Suffrage Movement still
- 2 c.o.x, Rebecca B. Spring, and Abigail Hopper Gibbons, a daughter of that n.o.ble Quaker philanthropist, Isaac T. Hopper.Abby Kelley was the most untiring and the most persecuted of all the women who labored throughout the Anti-Slavery struggle. She travel
- 3 And when in the progress of civilization the time had fully come for the recognition of the feminine element in humanity, women, in every civilized country unknown to each other, began simultaneously to demand a broader sphere of action. Thus the first pu
- 4 FOOTNOTES: [6] The ladies of the Convention were fenced off behind a bar and curtain, similar to those used in churches to screen the choir from the public gaze.[7] Some of the English clergy, dancing around with Bible in hand, shaking it in the faces of
- 5 When the first bill was introduced by Judge Hertell in 1836, he made a very elaborate argument in its favor, covering all objections, and showing the incontestable justice of the measure. Being too voluminous for a newspaper report it was published in pam
- 6 But Mrs. Stanton and Frederick Dougla.s.s seeing that the power to choose rulers and make laws, was the right by which all others could be secured, persistently advocated the resolution, and at last carried it by a small majority.Thus it will be seen that
- 7 "THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS."Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from "their spheres,"And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!In courses err
- 8 [10] Rebecca Sanford, now Postmaster at Mt. Morris, N. Y.[11] See Appendix.CHAPTER V.REMINISCENCES.EMILY COLLINS.The first Suffrage Society--Methodist cla.s.s-leader whips his wife--Theology enchains the soul--The status of women and slaves the same--The
- 9 At a great public meeting in the Broadway Tabernacle to consider the necessity of an improved system of Free Schools, J. S. Buckingham, M.P., of England, and Rev. Robert Breckenridge, of Kentucky, were among the speakers. Mrs. Rose, sitting in the gallery
- 10 MEMORIAL.We believe the whole theory of the Common Law in relation to woman is unjust and degrading, tending to reduce her to a level with the slave, depriving her of political existence, and forming a positive exception to the great doctrine of equality
- 11 Cowles gave a report equally good on "Labor," and Emily Robinson on "Education."In all the early Conventions the resolutions were interminable. It was not thought that full justice was done to the subject, if every point of interest or
- 12 Brown, so I knew whereof I was bearing testimony, when I a.s.sured my hearers that Samuel Carey had certainly been lying--under a mistake. I gave my testimony, not cringingly, but as one who knew, and drew a comparison between Antoinette L. Brown, modestl
- 13 She came forward and made a brief, but eloquent prayer. It was considered rather presumptuous in those days for a woman to pray in public, but as Miss Brown was a graduate of Oberlin College, had gone through the theological department, was a regularly or
- 14 Among other timely measures, these have occurred to me as promising to be effective: I. There should be prepared, printed, and widely circulated, A DECLARATION OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS.This Declaration should distinctly announce the inalienable rights of wo
- 15 You ask me who made this sentiment; and my friend yonder, says woman. She is but the echo of man. Man utters the sentiment, and woman echoes it. As I said before--for I have seen and felt it deeply--she even appears to be quite flattered with her cruel ty
- 16 Mrs. MOTT: We ought to thank Dr. Nevin for his kindly fears, lest we women should be brought out into the rough conflicts of life, and overwhelmed by infidelity. I thank him, but at the same time I must say, that if we have been able this afternoon to sit
- 17 WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.Just previous to this, two stormy Conventions had been held in the city of New York; one called to discuss Woman's Rights, the other a World's Temperance Convention. Thus many of the leaders of each movement me
- 18 WM. LLOYD GARRISON, having listened to the narration of the action of the World's Convention in New York, said: I rise to offer some resolutions by which the sense of this Convention may be obtained. I happened to be an eyewitness of these proceeding
- 19 J. ELIZABETH JONES.Thus, in a measure, were the civil rights of the women of Ohio secured. Some of those who were influential in winning this modic.u.m of justice have already pa.s.sed away; some, enfeebled by age, are incapable of active work; others are
- 20 Had this been true, I could not have managed it better, for a good Providence went with me. I received several memorial "hanks" of yarn, with messages from the donors that "they would keep me in knitting-work while preaching woman's ri
- 21 We had no material for Conventions, and the population was so spa.r.s.e, distances so great, and means of conveyance and communication so slow and uncertain, that I felt sure an attempt at Conventions would be disastrous, only betraying the weakness of ou
- 22 In December, 1854, on my return from Kansas to Vermont, I spent several days in St. Louis, in the pleasant family of my friend, Mrs.Frances D. Gage, who, very much to my regret, was away in Illinois.The Judge having recently removed to the city, the famil
- 23 In Ma.s.sachusetts, women voted at an early day. First, under the Old Province Charter, from 1691 to 1780, for all elective officers; second, they voted under the Const.i.tution for all elective officers except the Governor, Council, and Legislature, from
- 24 "Letters, curt, reproachful, and sometimes almost insulting, came with absolute refusals to have the names of the writers used, or added to the swelling list already in hand. There was astonishment at the temerity of the writer in presenting such a r
- 25 On taking the chair, Mrs. Davis said: The reformation we propose in its utmost scope is radical and universal. It is not the mere perfecting of a reform already in motion, a detail of some established plan, but it is an epochal movement--the emanc.i.p.ati
- 26 Suppose woman, though equal, does differ essentially in her intellect from man, is that any ground for disfranchising her?Shall the Fultons say to the Raphaels, because you can not make steam engines, therefore you shall not vote? Shall the Napoleons or t
- 27 She comes to demand of the electors the consecration of the principle of equality by the election of a woman, and by this act she obliges man to prove that the fundamental law which he has formed in the sole name of liberty, equality, and fraternity, is s
- 28 After last year's Woman's Convention, I saw an article in the _Christian Inquirer_, a Unitarian paper, edited by the Rev. Mr.Bellows, of New York, where, in reply to a correspondent on the subject of Woman's Rights, in which he strenuously
- 29 Elizabeth Oakes Smith, writing in _The Una_, says of this historical occasion: The Ma.s.sachusetts Convention did not deign to notice the prayer of these two thousand women who claimed the privilege of being heard by men who a.s.sert that we are represent
- 30 PROTEST.While acknowledging our mutual affection by publicly a.s.suming the relations.h.i.+p of husband and wife, yet in justice to ourselves and a great principle, we deem it a duty to declare that this act on our part implies no sanction of, nor promise
- 31 As regards voting, why should not women go to the polls? You think it a very strange desire, I know; but we have thought many things stranger which seem quite natural now. One need not live long to find strange things grow common. Why not vote, then? Is i
- 32 I may truly say, that this is my maiden speech in behalf of maidens and others [laughter]; and, if it amount to nothing else, I may say, as did my friend Clarke, I feel bound, at least, to take my stand, and show my sympathy for the n.o.ble cause. I come
- 33 Every person, man or woman, is an integer, an individual, a whole person; and also a portion of the race, and so a fraction of humankind. Well, the Rights of individualism are not to be possessed, developed, used, and enjoyed, by a life in solitude, but b
- 34 What a writer in the British Quarterly for January, says of Mrs. John Stuart Mill, applies with equal force to Mrs. Davis. "She seems to have been saved from the coa.r.s.eness and strenuous tone of the typical strong-minded woman, although probably s
- 35 Indiana Missionary Station--Gen. Arthur St. Clair--Indian surprises--The terrible war whoop--One hundred women join the army, and are killed fighting bravely--Prairie schooners-- Manufactures in the hands of women--Admitted to the Union in 1816--Robert Da
- 36 But let us turn to the question more immediately before us. Let us pa.s.s from the case of the widow and look to that of the wife: First, the husband becomes ent.i.tled, from the instant of marriage, to all the goods and chattels of his wife. His right is
- 37 The fourth annual meeting convened in Masonic Hall, Indianapolis, October 26, 1854. Frances D. Gage, Caroline M. Severance, and L. A.Hine were the invited speakers, and right well did they sustain the banner of equal rights in the capital of the State. J.
- 38 Mrs. Clark has been an acceptable lecturer and preacher for many years in different parts of the State. She was early a recognized minister among the Congregational Quakers. More recently she has been ordained in the Universalist Church, and enjoys equal
- 39 CHAPTER X.PENNSYLVANIA.William Penn--Independence Hall--British troops--Heroism of women--Lydia Darrah--Who designed the Flag--Anti-slavery movements in Philadelphia--Pennsylvania Hall destroyed by a mob--David Paul Brown--Fugitives--Millard Fillmore--Joh
- 40 If the history of this Society were fully written, one of its most interesting chapters would be a faithful record of its series of annual fairs. Beginning in the year 1836, the series continued during twenty-six years, the last fair being held in Decembe
- 41 Storrs, Juliana A. Tappan, Elizabeth M. Southard, and Charlotte Woolsey. Those who voted in the negative stated that they fully concurred with their sisters in the belief that slaveholders and their apologists were guilty before G.o.d, and that with the f
- 42 _Resolved_, That we urgently solicit those having care of pet.i.tions, to make use of every opportunity to obtain men's and women's names in different columns, or on separate pet.i.tions, and thus aid the Chester County Temperance Society in pro
- 43 SARAH M. GRIMKe.When an insect emerges with struggles from its chrysalis state, how feeble are all its movements, how its wings hang powerless until the genial air has dried and strengthened them, how patiently the insect tries again and again to spread t
- 44 Glowing pictures have been drawn of the fitness of the present relations of society, and of the beauty of woman's dependence upon the protecting love of man, and frightful visions have been evoked of the confusion and perversion of nature which would
- 45 So far from her "ambition leading her to attempt to act the man,"she needs all the encouragement she can receive, by the removal of obstacles from her path, in order that she may become the "true woman." As it is desirable that man sho
- 46 The following officers were chosen for the Convention: PRESIDENT.--Ernestine L. Rose, of New York.VICE-PRESIDENTS.--Lucretia Mott, Philadelphia; Frances D. Gage, Missouri; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Ma.s.sachusetts; Martha C.Wright, New York; Thomas Garr
- 47 In regard to Mr. Grew, Mr. G. said he had long known him and loved him. He was a man of purity and charity, and he was glad he had given his views. Yet this kindly man did not stand upon a solid foundation.Why go to the Bible to settle this question? As a
- 48 In September, 1850, in a rented building, No. 229 Arch Street, Philadelphia, the College began its first session with six pupils; others were added before the cla.s.s graduated, so that it then numbered eight:--Hannah E. Longsh.o.r.e, Ann Preston, Phebe W
- 49 Several perilous emergencies in her life are vividly recalled--such as being overturned while in a carriage with a child in her arms, the horse meanwhile floundering amid the _debris_, a shaft broken, and dash-board kicked into splinters.At another time,
- 50 In her eighteenth year, Lucretia Coffin and James Mott, according to Quaker ceremony, became husband and wife, the result of an attachment formed at boarding-school, which proved to be an exceptionally happy union, and through their long wedded life, of o
- 51 On the following Sunday I went to hear Mrs. Mott preach in a Unitarian church. Though I had never heard a woman speak, yet I had long believed she had the right to do so, and had often expressed the idea in private circles; but when at last I saw a woman
- 52 I have a consciousness that I have not done _my_ duty in not sooner urging these considerations on the Convention. My excuse is that I was unavoidably absent during the discussion on the subject.I have the honor to be, very respectfully, madam, Your obedi
- 53 After his victory at Fort Lee, Lord Cornwallis marched his army to New Jersey, encamping at Elizabethtown. His presence on New Jersey soil so soon after Gen. Howe's proclamation, and the many defeats of the patriot army, had a very depressing effect.
- 54 This difference of sentiment has given rise to diversity of _practice_ on this head, and furnished a pretence from which many an electioneering trick has resulted. I could refer to instances which would prove what is advanced, but the people want no proof
- 55 True, those gentlemen were all quite willing that women should join their societies and churches, to do the drudgery, to work up the enthusiasm in fairs and revivals, conventions and flag presentations, to pay a dollar apiece into their treasury for the h
- 56 [85] See Appendix.[86] See Appendix.[87] See Appendix.[88] Gerrit Smith's home was ever a charming resort for lovers of liberty as well as lovers of Eve's daughters. In his leisure hours my cousin had a turn for match-making, and his chief delight in th
- 57 2. Let us pet.i.tion our State governments so to modify the laws affecting marriage, and the custody of children, that the drunkard shall have no claims on either wife or child.3. Let us touch not, taste not, handle not, the unclean thing in any combinati
- 58 To avoid this cla.s.s in organizing "The Woman's Temperance Society," it was decided to enroll men as members, but not to allow them to vote and hold office. They were permitted to attend the meetings, talk, and contribute money, but they were to have
- 59 At this meeting, _ladies_ were especially invited to vote, as though they had a heart in it, and were urged also to give their money to aid these very men by whom every soul of us had been insulted. I am sorry to say some gave. But taught such lessons, by
- 60 On the second morning your delegate wisely waited until the resolutions offered to the convention by the Business Committee were opened for discussion. When the first resolution, declaring the _religious character_ of the Temperance Movement, was submitte
- 61 The Nominating Committee reported the list of officers,[105] with Lucretia Mott as permanent President. She asked that the vote be taken separately, as there might be objections to her appointment. The entire audience (except her husband, who gave an emph
- 62 Mr. MAY corrected himself and said--_Rosa Smith_.Matilda Joslyn Gage made her first public appearance in an address to this Convention. She pressed the adoption of some settled plan for the future--brought up many notable examples of woman's intellectual
- 63 G.o.d created the first human pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other. (Gen. i. 28). They sinned.G.o.d announ
- 64 We feel in a mood to dip lightly into a discussion of the Woman's Rights question.... Our sober second thought dictates that a three days' enlightenment at the intellectual feast spread by Beauty and Genius, may have turned our brains, and consequently
- 65 There is an exquisite picture by Retsch, which represents angels showering roses on devils; to the angels they are roses, but the devils writhe under them as under fire. On sinful souls the words of women fall as coals from the altar of G.o.d. And here le
- 66 Mrs. ROSE said: As to the personal property, after all debts and liabilities are discharged, the widow receives one-half of it; and, in addition, the law kindly allows her her own wearing apparel, her own ornaments, proper to her station, one bed, with ap
- 67 Rev. JOHN PIERPONT, who, for the first time, took part in a Woman's Rights Convention, said: Ladies and gentlemen, a woman, at this hour, occupies the throne of the mightiest kingdom of the globe. Under her sway there are some hundred and fifty millions
- 68 Hiss-s-s! Get out!The case is still on.[Ill.u.s.tration: SUSAN B. ANTHONY (with autograph).]WOMAN'S RIGHTS STATE CONVENTION, ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 30 AND DECEMBER 1, 1853.As William Henry Channing resided at Rochester, and felt that the time had com
- 69 MARY F. LOVE said there might be hindrances in the way of woman too great for her to surmount. Men in their straggles for liberty have sometimes met insuperable obstacles; there have been unsuccessful revolutions at all stages of human development.FREDERI
- 70 WHEREAS, The family is the nursery of the State and the Church--the G.o.d-appointed seminary of the human race. Therefore 3. _Resolved_, That the family, by men as well as women, should be held more sacred than all other inst.i.tutions; that it may not, w
- 71 Many times and oft it has been asked us, with, unaffected seriousness, "What do you women want? What are you aiming at?"Many have manifested a laudable curiosity to know what the wives and daughters could complain of in republican America, where their s
- 72 "3. If the mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of New York are the peers and equals of their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, why should they not enjoy all civil and political rights equally with them? If they are, on the contrary, an inferior c
- 73 The report was signed by James L. Angle and all the members of the Committee except Mr. Richards.Of the report on the pet.i.tions, Mr. Weed says: Mr. Angle, from the Select Committee of the a.s.sembly, to which the woman's rights pet.i.tions were referre
- 74 SUSAN B. ANTHONY.DEAR MADAM:--Your note of the 20th has just come to hand. I am sorry to say that my engagements are such that it will not be possible for me to be present at the Woman's Rights Convention at Saratoga, which I should very much rejoice to
- 75 The Hon. Wm. Hay, who always aided us and watched the Legislature very closely in its action upon our question, in a letter to Miss Anthony, dated March 20, 1856, said: I write this in the a.s.sembly Chamber which has so recently been disgraced by an old
- 76 [Ill.u.s.tration: MARTHA C. WRIGHT (with autograph).]I say the very first claim, the middle and last claim of all our Conventions should be the ballot. Everywhere, in each State, we should claim it; not for any intrinsic value in the ballot, but because i
- 77 I want to say a word upon the resolutions. The present time, just after a presidential election, is most appropriate to consider woman's demand for suffrage. The Republican party claims especially to represent the principles of freedom, and during the la
- 78 Mrs. ROSE: This morning a young man made some remarks in opposition to our claims. We were glad to hear him, because he gave evidence of an earnest, sincere spirit of inquiry, which is always welcome in every true reform movement. And as we believe our ca
- 79 Mrs. HALLOCK: Isn't it a pity that our laws--are they ours?Mrs. ROSE: No.Mrs. HALLOCK: Well, then, your laws. It is a pity that those statutes should not be revised so as to give a widow a carpet and other smaller articles of luxury. [Great laughter].And
- 80 It is the desire and purpose of those interested in the Woman's Rights movement, to send up to our next Legislature an overwhelming pet.i.tion, for the civil and political rights of woman. These rights must be secured just as soon as the majority of the
- 81 The President, Martha C. Wright, of Auburn, on taking the Chair, addressed the Convention as follows: I have only to thank you for the honor you have conferred by electing me to preside over the deliberations of this Convention.I shall leave it to others
- 82 We are not doing anything new. There is no fanaticism about it.We are merely extending the area of liberty--nothing else. We have made great progress. The law pa.s.sed at the last session of the New York Legislature grants, in fact, the whole question. Th
- 83 If the right to vote was granted to woman--from which I do not see how we can escape--I do not suppose that all women would go to the polls, for I know that many men do not, although they have much to say about the great privilege which every man enjoys,
- 84 Mr. Greeley tells us, that, marriage being a Divine inst.i.tution, nothing but death should ever separate the parties; but when he was asked, "Would you have a being who, innocent and inexperienced, in the youth and ardor of affection, in the fond hope t
- 85 "Many jurists," says Kent, vol. 2, p. 88, "are of opinion that the adultery of the husband ought not to be noticed or made subject to the same animadversions as that of the wife, because it is not evidence of such entire depravity, nor equally injuriou
- 86 While, in her loyalty to the Government and her love to humanity, she was encouraging the "boys in blue" to fight for the freedom of the black mothers of the South, these dastardly law-makers, filled with the spirit of slaveholders, were stealing the ch
- 87 Samuel Richardson, Rochester.[97] _The Lily_ was a temperance paper started in Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1849. It was owned and edited by Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. Though starting as the organ of a society, it soon became her individual property. She carried it
- 88 [123] _Vice-Presidents._--Ernestine L. Rose, New York; S. C. Cuyler, Wayne; Amy Post, Rochester; Mary F. Love, Randolph; Amelia Bloomer, Seneca Falls; Caroline Keese, Cayuga; Griffith M. Cooper, Wayne.; Rev.Antoinette L. Brown, South Butler; Matilda Josly
- 89 [128] See Appendix.[129] Ernestine L. Rose, Francis D. Gage, Hannah Tracy Cutler, Lucy N.Coleman, Antoinette L. Brown, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Marietta Richmond, Sarah Pellet, Carrie D. Filkins, Lydia A. Jenkins, Susan B. Anthony, dividing their time and for
- 90 [151] Jeannette Brown Heath, daughter of Nathan Brown, of Montgomery County, New York. She traveled with Abby Kelly at one time as a companion. Jeannette was a famous horsewoman; the young ladies of the county thought themselves well off when they could p
- 91 [167] _Resolved_, That inasmuch as man, in the progress of his development, found that at each advancing step new wants demanded new rights, and naturally walked out of those places, customs, creeds, and laws that in any way crippled and trammeled his fre
- 92 --2. The fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh sections of the said Act are hereby repealed.7th. Any married woman may, while married, sue and be sued, in all matters having relation to her sole and separate property, or which may hereafter com
- 93 _Second._ That man, believing in woman's inherent wickedness, and understanding neither the mental nor the physical peculiarities of her being, ascribed all her idiosyncrasies to witchcraft._Third._ That the clergy inculcated the idea that woman was in l
- 94 There are no illegitimate children in Utah; there are no libertines; there are no brothels, excepting where the presence of Gentiles creates the demand for them. Even then our people do what they can to root out such places. There is a positive advantage
- 95 This president of a theological seminary, where Christian theology is taught to embryo Christian ministers, said that woman's subordination would be most perfectly seen in the "Christian humility and gentleness and endurance of her character, and in her
- 96 116 East 19th, N. Y., _March 14, '81_.The world still asks, What is Truth? A work has recently been published ent.i.tled, "The Christian Religion to A.D. 200." It is the fruit of several-years' study of a period upon which the Church has but little re
- 97 [211] JOHN MILTON AND HIS DAUGHTERS.--Milton's Oriental views of the function of women led him not only to neglect, but to positively prevent the education of his daughters. They were sent to no school at all, but were handed over to a schoolmistress in
- 98 THE REIGN OF PETTICOATS.The women in various parts of the State have taken the field in favor of a petticoat empire, with a zeal and energy which show that their hearts are in the cause, and that they are resolved no longer to submit to the tyrannical rul
- 99 Only by faithful perseverance in the practical exercise of those talents, so long "wrapped in a napkin and buried under the earth," she will regain her long-lost equality with man._Resolved_, That in the persevering and independent course of Miss Blackw
- 100 LETTER FROM SARAH PUGH "Lawrencian Villa is extremely beautiful; the grounds full of shrubbery and flowers; the splendid dairy, the green-houses and conservatories--four or five of them appropriated to fruit, flowers, and rare plants in large numbers--th