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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
- 255 The great usurpation is now affirmed, legalized, by the decree of the Judicial Department of this government! More than 20,000,000 of the people of this Nation have been declared without the pale of political rights secured to them by the Const.i.tution o
- 254 The Supreme Court of the United States say: "Another guarantee of freedom was broken when Milligan was denied a trial by jury. The great minds of the country have differed on the correct interpretation to be given to various provisions of the Federal Con
- 253 Sincerely yours, SUSAN B. ANTHONY.WOMAN SUFFRAGE ABOVE HUMAN LAW.LETTER FROM GERRIT SMITH.PETERBORO, August 15, 1873 SUSAN B. ANTHONY--DEAR FRIEND: I have your letter. So you have not paid your fine; are not able to pay it; and are not willing to pay it!I
- 252 Gentlemen--I saw this morning with equal surprise and regret in the _Democrat and Chronicle_ the following article: "We understand that Miss Susan B. Anthony, in company with Mrs.Matilda Joslyn Gage, intends to lecture through Ontario County. She is
- 251 By order of the Executive Committee.MRS. HON. E. G. ROSS, MRS. GRIFFITH, MRS. EX GOV. ROBINSON, MRS. R. S. TENNEY, MRS. JUDGE THACHER, MRS. REV. W. A. STARRETT, MRS. JUDGE MILLER, MRS. REV. R. CORDLEY, MRS. JUDGE BURNETT, MRS. REV. G. S. DEARBORN, MRS. JU
- 250 Let me state the political situation. The radical principles of the North are immovably fixed upon negro suffrage as a condition of Southern State reconstruction. The proposed Const.i.tutional Amendment is not regarded as a finality. It satisfies n.o.body
- 249 148 MADISON AVENUE, _April 14, 1867_.DEAR MRS. STANTON:--Please accept the trifle enclosed, $20, as a token of my friends.h.i.+p to the good cause, whose mighty burden of enlightenment is to hold the growth of future cycles with an all-controlling destiny
- 248 MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY--_Dear Friend_:--It has proved impossible for me to attend the Convention; and I hope it is unnecessary, so far as my own position is concerned, for me to renew my allegiance to the Equal Rights movement. It seems to me the most glar
- 247 DEAR MRS. STANTON:--I have received yours of 14th inst., making eloquent and friendly appeal to me for the expression of my sympathy, written or spoken, in behalf of your forthcoming "Woman's Rights Convention." Surely you need not my a.s.s
- 246 Last November deprived us of Lady Theresa Lewes and Mrs. Gaskell. Mrs.Gaskell has perhaps done more than any woman of this century, not confessedly devoted to our cause, to elevate the condition of her s.e.x, and disseminate liberal ideas as to their need
- 245 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the literary address, and two days were devoted to the examination of incoming pupils. Feeling very little satisfaction in the success of Colleges intended for the separate s.e.xes, I take more pleasure in speaking of the Bak
- 244 OFFICE OF THE WOMEN'S LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE, } Room No. 20, Cooper Inst.i.tute, N. Y., _April 7, 1864_. } _Dear Friend:_--With this you will receive a Form of a Pet.i.tion to Congress, the object of which you can not mistake nor regard with indifference.
- 243 _Resolved_, That each lady to whom the pledge and pet.i.tion blanks are inclosed be requested to bring them to the notice of the clergymen and teachers in her vicinity, with a request that they shall take some action in the matter._Resolved_, That such la
- 242 Mrs. SPENCE: If your husbands propose to pay three hundred dollars, would you urge them to go themselves?Mrs. STANTON: We shall urge them to go as to the post of glory.Mrs. LOVELAND would urge her husband. She was very severe on the skedaddlers to Canada
- 241 Cordially yours, MARIA P. CODDING.IOWA.COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.Most gladly does my heart respond to the call, and most earnestly do I hope that the deliberations on that occasion will result in much good to women and to the cause you meet to promote. The wom
- 240 MISS S. B. ANTHONY:--Not being able to attend your meeting, I desire to convey to you personally my heartfelt appreciation of your work.If, as the call implies, your object is to help create and keep alive a loyal public sentiment, it is truly praiseworth
- 239 GREEN GROVE, LUZERNE CO., PA., _May 8, 1863_.DEAR MADAM:--With pleasure I read the "Call," and gladly would respond to it in person, but must be content with sending my name.Prospectively I see the places of meeting filled to overflowing, every eye kind
- 238 You and I believe if the present Administration had done its duty, the rebellion would have been put down long ago. Hence, we hold it with its supporters responsible for the terrible waste of treasure and of blood thus far, and for that which is to follow
- 237 DEATH OF MRS. JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING.--Yesterday morning, at two o'clock, Mrs. Josephine S. Griffing departed to a higher life. A woman of rare beauty of character, of uncommon executive capacity and judgment, and ever inspired by a beautiful and self-sac
- 236 Hoping that the Committee in charge of the matter may have success, I am, very truly yours, THOMAS A. SCOTT.Editorial from the _National Citizen_ (Syracuse, N. Y.), September, 1881: THE CONTRAST.--"Look on this picture and on that." While President Jame
- 235 WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _March 1, 1869_.MISS CARROLL:--I can not take leave of my public life without expressing my deep sense of your services to the country during the whole period of our National troubles. Although a citizen of a State almost unanimously dislo
- 234 3. _Resolved_, That the American Woman Suffrage a.s.sociation records its grateful appreciation of their invaluable service and its sense of irreparable loss, now that the eloquent voice is silent, the ready pen dropped, and the generous hand is cold in d
- 233 WHEREAS, The Republicans have a large majority in both houses of Congress; therefore, _Resolved_, That we call upon Congress to enact a law establis.h.i.+ng impartial suffrage for all citizens irrespective of s.e.x, in the District of Columbia and the Ter
- 232 Griffith, of Iowa; Rev. R. Fisk, Canton, N. Y.; A. N. Fretz, of Virginia; Rev. Edward Eggleston, of Chicago; Hon. Sharon Tyndale, and Hon. George Fisher, of Illinois.[182] New Hamps.h.i.+re--Nathaniel White, Armenia S. White, Miss Dr. Hunt, of Concord; Mi
- 231 _Bunker Hill, McCoupin Co., Ill., Oct. 23, 1879._ Mrs. Cutler continued in a pertinent speech. Miss Hindman followed with an able argument to show why and where women need the ballot. Mrs. E. d.i.c.kerson, of St. Louis, Dr. Wilson, of Cincinnati, and Lucy
- 230 Addresses were made by Rev. John Snyder, of St. Louis; Lucy Stone; Mrs. Duniway, of Oregon, and Mrs. Livermore; after which the audience rose and united in singing the doxology, and the meeting adjourned.In November, 1877, the American Woman Suffrage a.s.
- 229 Mr. BRADLAUGH at once came forward from the rear of the hall, where he had been sitting, and mounting the platform, said: I only came forward in obedience to a call which it would be impertinence to refuse here to-night. I came to be a listener and with n
- 228 Having spoken of the East and the West, let me say how welcome to us of the East are occasions which make us better acquainted with our fellow-workers and believers of the West. The late Mr. Seward once said that slavery was sectional and freedom National
- 227 ANDOVER, Ma.s.s., Sept. 29, 1873.MY DEAR MRS. STONE:--My regret at not being able to attend the meetings of the American Suffrage a.s.sociation this year, is not consoled by the pleasure of expressing, by letter, my warmest sympathy with their objects; bu
- 226 Some disappointment was felt at the unavoidable absence of Mr.Garrison, Mrs. Bowles, and Mrs. Livermore, the two former being detained by severe indisposition. In consequence of an error of dates on the part of the proprietors of Steinway Hall, the meetin
- 225 Mrs. LIVERMORE, referring to Mr. Gladden's remarks, said there was nothing so painful to her as the lack of faith in republicanism among cultivated American gentlemen. Political atheism seemed to be rife among them. What wonder that political corrupt
- 224 Is this an extreme view? What! can there be an extreme view, when one is considering individual freedom? Set bounds to the political, social, or religious liberty of a man, and what figures of speech would he employ? The advocates of the XV.Amendment put
- 223 The Convention then adjourned _sine die_.THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE a.s.sOCIATION was held in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 22 and 23, 1870.Col. T. W. HIGGINSON, first Vice-President, called the meeting to order, and addressed the aud
- 222 LUCY STONE here read a letter of regret from William Lloyd Garrison, in which he stated that he was ill and confined to his bed, and therefore unable to be present. She read, also, a letter from Mrs. Haskell, of California, expressing earnest and hearty s
- 221 Gentlemen, very few of us are very young women. We have forty, fifty, some of us seventy years of life behind us. We have stood on this eminence where you in your mistaken kindness and gallantry placed us, and we have been all this time looking down upon
- 220 People say she ought to influence gently and quietly, and not to govern by force. Now if there is anything which means influence and not force, except indirectly and secondarily, it is the ballot-box! We had an administration two years ago which had all t
- 219 SEC. 9. Five members of the Executive Committee, when convened by the Chairman, after fifteen days written notice previously mailed to each of its members, shall const.i.tute a quorum. But no action thus taken shall be final, until such proceedings shall
- 218 Pending the report of the Committee on Credentials, Mrs. Lucy Stone presented letters from several persons[181] who had been unable to attend the Convention, but desired to give expression to their sympathy with its object. In a few preliminary remarks sh
- 217 _First Judge._ Women are voters but they can't vote. Voting is a privilege and not a natural right, and must be conferred; it has clearly been conferred by the supreme law of the land, therefore women can not vote. A little voting is a good thing, bu
- 216 The following review of this important case is from the January number, 1876, of the _Central Law Journal_, St. Louis, Missouri: WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ITS LEGAL ASPECT--A REVIEW OF THE CASE OF MINOR _vs._ HAPPERSETT, 21 WALLACE, U. S. REPORTS.As a rule, respe
- 215 The Const.i.tution does not define the privileges and immunities of citizens. For that definition we must look elsewhere. In this case we need not determine what they are, but only whether suffrage is necessarily one of them.It certainly is nowhere made s
- 214 This clause was manifestly introduced to prevent any perverse or ingenious misapplication of the well-known maxim, that an affirmative in particular cases implies a negative in all others; and, _e converso_, that a negative in particular cases implies an
- 213 and you have the key to the whole position. We will now consider the clauses of the Const.i.tution before recited, somewhat in detail: As to "bills of attainder," "due process of law," etc. "No State shall pa.s.s any bill of attai
- 212 1. Because said Virginia L. Minor, plaintiff, had no right to vote at the general election held in November, 1872, in said pet.i.tion referred to.2. Because said Virginia L. Minor had no right to be registered for voting by said defendant, at the time and
- 211 In this case, therefore, the committee think the Government is under a moral obligation to indemnify the pet.i.tioner.In this claim of Lyon, after remaining before Congress until 1840, a bill, upon a favorable report of the Committee on the Judiciary, was
- 210 It may not be amiss here, gentlemen, to remind you of the good old rule, that on questions of fact it is the province of the jury, on questions of law it is the province of the court, to decide. But it must be observed that by the same law which recognize
- 209 At this time, before any entry had been made by the clerk, your pet.i.tioner's counsel asked the judge to submit the case to the jury, and to give to the jury the following several instructions.[See page 680.]The judge declined to submit the case to
- 208 Mr. Van Voorhis addressed the Court at some length, submitting that there was no ground whatever to charge these defendants (the Inspectors) with any criminal offense, 1. Because the women who voted were legal voters. 2. Because they were challenged and t
- 207 Miss ANTHONY: Yes, your honor, I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled underfoot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, are all alike ignored. Robbed of
- 206 It appeared on the trial that before voting the defendant called upon a respectable lawyer, and asked his opinion whether she had a right to vote, and he advised her that she had such right, and the lawyer was examined as a witness in her behalf, and test
- 205 The conclusions of the writer here are correct, but in a part of the statement the learned author has thrown some obscurity over his own principles. The doctrines elsewhere enunciated by him, show with great clearness, that in such cases the state of the
- 204 Mr. Justice Was.h.i.+ngton, in the case of Corfield _vs._ Coryell (4 Wash. C. C. Rep. 380), speaking of the "privileges and immunities" of the citizen, as mentioned in Sec. 2, Art. 4, of the Const.i.tution, after enumerating the personal rights
- 203 Withholding names, I will state the facts with fullness and accuracy.An educated and refined woman, who had been many years before deserted by her drunken husband, was living in a small village of Western New York, securing, by great economy and intense l
- 202 But, beyond that, whether she was a legal voter or not, whether she was ent.i.tled to a vote or not, if she sincerely believed that she had a right to vote, and offered her ballot in good faith, under that belief, whether right or wrong, by the laws of th
- 201 _Q._ State what tickets she voted, if you know, Mr. Jones. _A._ If I recollect right she voted the Electoral ticket, Congressional ticket, State ticket, and a.s.sembly ticket._Q._ Was there an election for member of Congress from that district and for Rep
- 200 Every man of the commonalty, except infants, insane persons and criminals, is, of common right and the law of G.o.d, a freeman and ent.i.tled to the free enjoyment of liberty. That liberty or freedom consists in having an actual share in the appointment o
- 199 If a foreign-born woman, by becoming a naturalized, citizen, is ent.i.tled to all rights and privileges of citizens.h.i.+p, is not a native-born woman by her National citizens.h.i.+p, possessed of equal rights and privileges?The question of the masculine
- 198 Those who advocated the equality of suffrage took the matter up on the original principles of government; that the reason why each individual man in forming a State government should have an equal vote, is because each individual, before he enters into go
- 197 The plaintiff in error, residing in the State of Illinois, made application to the judges of the Supreme Court of that State for a license to practice law. She accompanied her pet.i.tion with the usual certificate from an inferior court of her good charac
- 196 While I do not believe that female suffrage has been secured by the existing amendments to the Const.i.tution of the United States, neither do I look upon that result as at all to be dreaded. It is not, in my opinion, a question of woman's rights mer
- 195 As to the main question, the right of married women to make contracts not affecting their separate property, the position of those who a.s.sert such right is, that because the Legislature has expressly removed the common law disabilities of married women
- 194 Mr. Story, in his work upon "Agency," and Mr. Bouvier, in his "Inst.i.tutes," in treating of the different kinds of agents, both speak first of attorneys-at-law. All the elementary writers upon law tell us that attorneys are agents. Wi
- 193 This contradictory decision of Judge Cartter averring that the XIV.Amendment clothed women with the capacity to become voters, but did not create them voters, afforded opportunity for criticism and ridicule. The Was.h.i.+ngton _Sunday Morning Herald_ witt
- 192 _In re Jane Allen_ (_Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_)._September 23, 1868_.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
- 191 _Resolved_, That we congratulate the women of England for the large vote secured on the Woman's Disabilities Bill in the House of Commons.With a Queen on her throne, 400,000 women already voting, and her Premier in favor of the measure, England bids
- 190 WHEREAS, The underlying principle of our Government is equality of political rights, therefore, _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
- 189 Mr. EDMUNDS.--I am not asking whether I am mistaken or not; I am asking if the clause remains as it stood reported by the committee?Mr. BOREMAN.--Yes, sir.Mr. EDMUNDS.--That is enough for me.Mr. RAMSEY.--There is nothing new in that.The question being tak
- 188 Mr. HAGER: Mr. President, it seems to me strange that a question of so much importance as that raised by this amendment appears to be, from the positions taken by Senators on the floor, should be presented upon this bill, which, if amended as proposed, wi
- 187 Mr. MORTON: To my mind that furnishes no argument at all.Mr. EDMUNDS: I am not arguing it.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
- 186 Universal suffrage is affirmed by its advocates as among the absolute or natural rights of man, in the sense of mankind, extending to females as well as males, and susceptible of no limitation unless as opposed to child or infant. It is supposed to origin
- 185 Mr. MERRIMON.--My friend did not hear my question. Why not confer suffrage on the women of the District of Columbia.Mr. SARGENT.--We will the first time we get a chance.Mr. STEWART.--The Senator from North Carolina asks, "Why not try it here?" T
- 184 The effect of this measure on politics has been so well described by the distinguished Senator from Indiana that I need not comment upon that branch of the subject. They would tend to purify the atmosphere morally, either at the ballot-box or anywhere els
- 183 Committees on resolutions and finance were appointed, and the meeting adjourned till afternoon.F. E. B.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 cro
- 182 Here again arises what I have shown to be the question of the hour. Is the United States a Nation? If it does not possess powers to protect its own citizens it is not a Nation. Citizens of the United States are ent.i.tled to protection, whether they are r
- 181 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.[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 Dever
- 180 In this country, which stands so specially on equal representation, it is hardly possible that the same equal suffrage would not be established by law, if the matter were to be left merely to the progress of public sentiment and the ordinary course of leg
- 179 [130]WAs.h.i.+NGTON, Jan. 19, 1870.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 f
- 178 The mothers of the land, who shall form the characters of all its citizens through their teaching in childhood, giving direction to the thoughts which shall hereafter govern the land, may well claim that it is expedient that they shall have a voice in mak
- 177 It is worth noticing that the Act of Congress of May 31, 1870, to carry into effect the provisions of the XIV. and XV. Amendments, is ent.i.tled, "An Act to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Unio
- 176 3. Men and women should pour out money like water for the propagation of these views. A copy of the Declaration of Independence and of the Const.i.tution of the United States, together with an argument on the fair interpretation of these doc.u.ments, shou
- 175 [Ill.u.s.tration: Isabella Beecher Hooker.]On the day of the adjournment of Congress Mrs. Hooker presented thanks, in the name of the Committee, to such members of the House as had been most active in serving our cause. She said: GENTLEMEN: The National W
- 174 The importance of examining the preamble for the purpose of expounding the language of a statute has been long felt and universally conceded in all juridical discussion. It is an admitted maxim ... that the preamble is a key to open the mind of the matter
- 173 The Committee cite the language of Mr. Webster, as counsel in United States _vs._ Primrose. We indorse every word in that extract. We do not claim that a citizen of Pennsylvania can go into Virginia and vote in Virginia, being a citizen of Pennsylvania. N
- 172 Mr. LOUGHRIDGE, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following as the view of the minority: _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 Comm
- 171 Mr. RIDDLE.--So far as that is concerned, where the daughter is a minor, it is the same as the case of a son a minor; but the wife is always the servant of the husband; she never graduates from him; she never becomes of age or arrives at the years of disc
- 170 It was reserved for our great country to recognize by const.i.tutional enactment that political equality of all citizens which religion, affection, and common sense should have long since accorded; it was reserved for America to sweep away the mist of pre
- 169 VICTORIA PRESS, LONDON, Oct. 3, 1870.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
- 168 that privilege was denied her. Miss Anthony made several characteristic, short speeches at intervals, in a style which is peculiarly her own. Her force and humor were fully appreciated by the audience, who applauded her repeatedly. Her appeals for money m
- 167 The Convention was eventually held in Apollo Hall, the owners of Irving Hall annulling their contract when they learned that colored people were not only to be admitted to the audience, but welcomed to the platform as speakers. The Rev. Phebe Hanaford ope
- 166 Mrs. WILBOUR remarked that she was fully aware of the truth that humanity was a unit. She knew the day was coming when a woman would be considered the equal of man. No disabilities to vote or hold office should exist in a free country on account of s.e.x
- 165 SUSAN B. ANTHONY addressed the Committee as follows: We are here for the express purpose of urging you to present in your respective bodies, a bill to strike the word "male" from the District of Columbia Suffrage Act, and thereby enfranchise the
- 164 5. That justice and equity can only be attained by having the same laws for men and women alike.6. That having full faith and confidence in the truth and justice of these principles, we will never cease to urge the claims of women to a partic.i.p.ation in
- 163 _Const.i.tution_--Article 1. This organization shall be called the National Woman Suffrage a.s.sociation.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 fav
- 162 With every type and shade of manhood thus exalted above their heads, there never was a time when all women, rich and poor, white and black, native and foreign, should be so wide awake to the degradation of their position, and so persistent in their demand
- 161 There had been so much trouble with men in the Equal Rights Society, that it was thought best to keep the absolute control henceforth in the hands of women. Sad experience had taught them that in trying emergencies they would be left to fight their own ba
- 160 Mrs. MARY F. DAVIS spoke in behalf of the rights of her own s.e.x, but expressed her willingness to see the negro guaranteed in his rights, and would wait if only one question could be disposed of.But she thought they would not have to wait long, for the
- 159 Mr. FOSTER:--I will with pleasure; for, ladies and gentlemen, I admire our talented President with all my heart, and love the woman. (Great laughter.) But I believe she has publicly repudiated the principles of the society.Mrs. STANTON:--I would like Mr.
- 158 The ladies then proposed to go to the Merchants' Exchange and see the bulls and bears. Accordingly we drove there, ascended into the galleries, and looked down upon a great crowd of men standing round long lines of tables covered with tin pie-plates.
- 157 [From the _Philadelphia Press_].WAs.h.i.+NGTON, Jan. 21, 1869.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 b
- 156 One great charm in the convention was the presence of Lucretia Mott, calm, dignified, clear and forcible as ever. Though she is now seventy-six years old, she sat through all the sessions, and noted everything that was said and done. It was a satisfaction