Table Of Content1
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I, Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and M2atilda Joslyn Gage
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I, Edited
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HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Edited by
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, AND MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.
Illustrated with Steel Engravings.
In Three Volumes.
VOL. I.
1848-1861.
"GOVERNMENTS DERIVE THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED."
[Illustration: FRANCES WRIGHT (with autograph).]
Second Edition.
Susan B. Anthony. Rochester, N. Y.: Charles Mann. London: 25 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Paris. G.
Fischbacher, 33 Rue De Seine. 1889.
Copyright, 1881, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Copyright, 1887, by Susan B. Anthony.
THESE VOLUMES
ARE
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
TO THE
Memory of
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, FRANCES WRIGHT, LUCRETIA MOTT, HARRIET MARTINEAU,
LYDIA MARIA CHILD, MARGARET FULLER, SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKÉ, JOSEPHINE S.
GRIFFING, MARTHA C. WRIGHT, HARRIOT K. HUNT, M.D., MARIANA W. JOHNSON, ALICE AND
PHEBE CAREY, ANN PRESTON, M.D., LYDIA MOTT, ELIZA W. FARNHAM, LYDIA F. FOWLER,
M.D., PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS,
Whose Earnest Lives and Fearless Words, in Demanding Political Rights for Women, have been, in the
Preparation of these Pages, a Constant Inspiration
TO
The Editors.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I, Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and M4atilda 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 found, and to make it an arsenal of facts for those who are beginning to
inquire into the demands and arguments of the leaders of this reform. Although the continued discussion of
the political rights of woman during the last thirty years, forms a most important link in the chain of
influences tending to her emancipation, no attempt at its history has been made. In giving the inception and
progress of this agitation, we who have undertaken the task have been moved by the consideration that many
of oar co-workers have already fallen asleep, and that in a few years all who could tell the story will have
passed away.
In collecting material for these volumes, most of those of whom we solicited facts have expressed themselves
deeply interested in our undertaking, and have gladly contributed all they could, feeling that those identified
with this reform were better qualified to prepare a faithful history with greater patience and pleasure, than
those of another generation possibly could.
A few have replied, "It is too early to write the history of this movement; wait until our object is attained; the
actors themselves can not write an impartial history; they have had their discords, divisions, personal
hostilities, that unfit them for the work." Viewing the enfranchisement of woman as the most important
demand of the century, we have felt no temptation to linger over individual differences. These occur in all
associations, and may be regarded in this case as an evidence of the growing self-assertion and individualism
in woman.
Woven with the threads of this history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical
sketches. To the few who, through ill-timed humility, have refused to contribute any of their early experiences
we would suggest, that as each brick in a magnificent structure might have had no special value alone on the
road-side, yet, in combination with many others, its size, position, quality, becomes of vital consequence; so
with the actors in any great reform, though they may be of little value in themselves; as a part of a great
movement they may be worthy of mention--even important to the completion of an historical record.
To be historians of a reform in which we have been among the chief actors, has its points of embarrassment as
well as advantage. Those who fight the battle can best give what all readers like to know--the impelling
motives to action; the struggle in the face of opposition; the vexation under ridicule; and the despair in success
too long deferred. Moreover, there is an interest in history written from a subjective point of view, that may
compensate the reader in this case for any seeming egotism or partiality he may discover. As an
autobiography is more interesting than a sketch by another, so is a history written by its actors, as in both
cases we get nearer the soul of the subject.
We have finished our task, and we hope the contribution we have made may enable some other hand in the
future to write a more complete history of "the most momentous reform that has yet been launched on the
world--the first organized protest against the injustice which has brooded over the character and destiny of
one-half the human race."
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I. 5
CHAPTER I.
PRECEDING CAUSES.
CHAPTER II. 6
CHAPTER II.
WOMAN IN NEWSPAPERS.
CHAPTER III. 7
CHAPTER III.
THE WORLD'S ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION, LONDON, JUNE 13, 1840.
Individualism rather than Authority--Personal appearance of Abolitionists--Attempt to silence
Woman--Doable battle against the tyranny of sex and color--Bigoted Abolitionists--James G. Birney likes
freedom on a Southern plantation, but not at his own fireside--John Bull never dreamt that Woman would
answer his call--The venerable Thomas Clarkson received by the Convention standing--Lengthy debate on
"Female" delegates--The "Females" rejected--William Lloyd Garrison refusing to sit in the Convention 50
CHAPTER IV. 8
CHAPTER IV.
NEW YORK.
The First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, July 19-80, 1848--Property Bights of Women
secured--Judge Fine, George Geddes, and Mr. Hadley pushing the Bill through--Danger of meddling with
well-settled conditions of domestic happiness--Mrs. Barbara Hertell's will--Richard Hunt's tea-table--The
eventful day--James Mott President--Declaration of sentiments--Convention in Rochester-- Opposition with
Bible arguments 63
CHAPTER V. 9
CHAPTER V.
MRS. COLLINS' REMINISCENCES.
The first Suffrage Society--Methodist class-leader whips his wife--Theology enchains the soul--The status of
women and slaves the same--The first medical college opened to women--Petitions to the Legislature laughed
at, and laid on the table--Dependence woman's best protection; her weakness her sweetest charm--Dr.
Elizabeth Blackwell's letter--Sketch of Ernestine L. Rose 88
CHAPTER VI. 10
CHAPTER VI.
OHIO.
The promised land of fugitives--"Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Salem Convention, 1850--Akron, 1851--Massilon,
1853--The address to the women of Ohio--The Mohammedan law forbidding pigs, dogs, women, and other
impure animals to enter a Mosque--The New York Tribune--Cleveland Convention, 1853--Hon. Joshua K.
Giddings--Letter from Horace Greeley--A glowing eulogy to Mary Wollstonecraft--William Henry
Channing's Declaration--The pulpit and public sentiment--President Asa Mahan debates--The Rev. Dr. Nevin
pulls Mr. Garrison's nose-- Antoinette L. Brown describes her exit from the World's Temperance
Convention--Cincinnati Convention, 1855--Jane Elizabeth Jones' Report, 1861 101
