History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) Anthony

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I, Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Editor: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage Release Date: February 7, 2009 [eBook #28020] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE, VOLUME I*** E-text prepared by Richard J. Shiffer and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's Note Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook. Many occurrences of mismatched single and double quotes remain as they were in the original. H I OF S T O R Y W O MA N EDITED BY S UFFRAGE. 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." S ECOND E DITION . SUSAN B. ANTHONY. R OCHESTER, N. Y.: C HARLES MANN. LONDON: 25 H ENRIETTA STREET, C OVENT GARDEN. PARIS. G. FISCHBACHER, 33 R UE DE SEINE. 1889. C OPYRIGHT, 1881, BY ELIZABETH C ADY STANTON, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, AND MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE. C OPYRIGHT, 1887, BY SUSAN B. ANTHONY . THESE VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE Memory of MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, FRANCES WRIGHT, LUCRETIA MOTT, H ARRIET MARTINEAU, LYDIA MARIA C HILD, MARGARET FULLER, SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKÉ, JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING , MARTHA C. WRIGHT, H ARRIOT K. H UNT, M.D., MARIANA W. JOHNSON, ALICE AND PHEBE C AREY, ANN PRESTON, M.D., LYDIA MOTT, ELIZA W. FARNHAM, LYDIA F. FOWLER, M.D., PAULINA WRIGHT D AVIS, 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. 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 [Pg 7] 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 illtimed 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." [Pg 8] [Pg 9] CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PRECEDING CAUSES. PAGE CHAPTER II. WOMAN IN NEWSPAPERS. 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. 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. 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. 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 [Pg 10] 101 CHAPTER VII. REMINISCENCES BY CLARINA I. HOWARD NICHOLS. VERMONT : Editor Windham County Democrat —Property Laws, 1847 and 1849 —Address to the Legislature on school suffrage, 1852. WISCONSIN: Woman's State Temperance Society—Lydia F. Fowler in company —Opposition of Clergy—"Woman's Rights" wouldn't do—Advertised "Men's Rights." KANSAS: Free State Emigration, 1854—Gov. Robinson and Senator Pomeroy —Woman's Rights speeches on Steamboat, and at Lawrence —Constitutional Convention, 1859—State Woman Suffrage Association —John O. Wattles, President—Aid from the Francis Jackson Fund —Canvassing the State—School Suffrage gained. M ISSOURI: Lecturing at St. Joseph, 1858, on Col. Scott's Invitation—Westport and the John Brown raid, 1859—St. Louis, 1854—Frances D. Gage, Rev. Wm. G. Eliot, and Rev. Mr. Weaver 171 CHAPTER VIII. MASSACHUSETTS. Women in the Revolution—Anti-Tea Leagues—Phillis Wheatley—Mistress Anne Hutchinson—Heroines in the Slavery Conflict—Women Voting under the Colonial Charter—Mary Upton Ferrin Petitions the Legislature in 1848 —Woman's Rights Convention in 1850, '51—Letter of Harriet Martineau from England—Letter of Jeannie Deroine from a Prison Cell in Paris —Editorial from The Christian Enquirer—The Una, edited by Paulina Wright Davis—Constitutional Convention in 1858—Before the Legislature in 1857—Harriot K. Hunt's Protest against Taxation—Lucy Stone's Protest against the Marriage Laws—Boston Conventions—Theodore Parker on Woman's Position 201 CHAPTER IX. INDIANA AND WISCONSIN. 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 Dale Owen—Woman Suffrage Conventions—Wisconsin—C. L. Sholes' report 290 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—John Brown—Angelina Gri