Table Of Content1
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XXV.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda J2oslyn Gage
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HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Edited by
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, AND MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.
Illustrated with Steel Engravings.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda J3oslyn Gage
In Three Volumes.
VOL. II.
1861-1876.
[Illustration: Anna Dickinson. "The World belongs to those who take it. Truly Yours Anna Dickinson"]
ALL PERSONS BORN OR NATURALIZED IN THE UNITED STATES, AND SUBJECT TO THE
JURISDICTION THEREOF, ARE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison St., Rochester, N. Y.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony,
And Matilda Joslyn Gage. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
PREFACE.
In presenting to our readers the second volume of the "History of Woman Suffrage," we gladly return
our thanks to the press for the many favorable notices we have received from leading journals, both in
the old world and the new. The words of cordial approval from a large circle of friends, and especially
from women well known in periodical literature, have been to us a constant stimulus during the
toilsome months we have spent in gathering material for these pages. It was our purpose to have
condensed the records of the last twenty years in a second volume, but so many new questions in regard
to Citizenship, State rights, and National power, indirectly bearing on the political rights of women,
grew out of the civil war, that the arguments and decisions in Congress and the Supreme Courts have
combined to swell these pages beyond our most liberal calculations, with much valuable material that
can not be condensed nor ignored, making a third volume inevitable.
By their active labors all through the great conflict, women learned that they had many interests
outside the home. In the camp and hospital, and the vacant places at their firesides, they saw how
intimately the interests of the State and the home were intertwined; that as war and all its concomitants
were subjects of legislation, it was only through a voice in the laws that their efforts for peace could
command consideration.
The political significance of the war, and the prolonged discussions on the vital principles of
government involved in the reconstruction, threw new light on the status of woman in a republic. Under
a liberal interpretation of the XIV. Amendment, women, believing their rights of citizenship secured,
made several attempts to vote in different States. Those who succeeded were arrested, tried, and
convicted. Those who were denied the right to register their names and deposit their votes, sued the
Inspectors of Election. Others attempting to practice law, being denied that right in the States, took
their cases up to the Supreme Court of the United States for adjudication. Others invaded the pulpit,
asking to be ordained, which brought the question of woman's right to preach before ecclesiastical
assemblies. These various attempts to secure her political and civil rights have called forth endless
discussions on woman's true position in the State, the church, and the world of work.
While gratefully accepting the generous praises of our friends, we must briefly reply to some strictures
by our critics. Some object to the title of our work; they say you can not write the "History of Woman
Suffrage" until the fact is accomplished. We feel that already enough has been achieved to make the
final victory certain. Women vote in England, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland,
and even India, on certain interests and qualifications; in Wyoming and Utah on all questions, and on
the same basis as male citizens; and in a dozen States of the Union on school affairs. Moreover, women
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda J4oslyn Gage
are filling many offices, such as Clerks of Courts, Notaries Public, Masters in Chancery, State
Librarians, School Superintendents, Commissioners of Charity, Post Mistresses, Pension Agents,
Engrossing and Enrolling Clerks in Legislative Assemblies.
After years of persistent effort a resolution was passed in both Houses, during the present session of
Congress (1882), securing "a select committee on the political Rights and Disabilities of Woman"--the
first time in the history of our Government that a special committee to look after the interests of woman
was ever appointed. A proposition for a XVI. Amendment to the National Constitution, to secure to
women the right of suffrage, is now pending in Congress. Some phase of this question is being debated
every year in State Legislatures. Propositions for so amending their constitutions as to extend the
elective franchise to women will be voted upon by the people in four of the Western States within the
coming two years. These successive steps of progress during forty years are as surely a part of the
History of Woman Suffrage as will be the events of the closing period in which victory shall at last
crown the hard fought battles of half a century.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XVI. 5
CHAPTER XVI.
WOMAN'S PATRIOTISM IN THE WAR. PAGE The first gun on Sumter, April 12, 1861--Woman's military
genius--Anna Ella Carroll--The Sanitary Movement--Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell--The Hospitals--Dorothea
Dix--Services on the battle-field--Clara Barton--The Freedman's Bureau--Josephine Griffing--Ladies' National
Covenant--Political campaigns--Anna Dickinson--The Woman's Loyal National League--The Mammoth
Petition--Anniversaries--The Thirteenth Amendment 1
CHAPTER XVII. 6
CHAPTER XVII.
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION.
First Petitions to Congress December, 1865, against the word "male" in the 14th Amendment--Joint
resolutions before Congress--Messrs. Jenckes, Schenck, Broomall, and Stevens--Republicans protest in
presenting petitions--The women seek aid of Democrats--James Brooks in the House of
Representatives--Horace Greeley on the petitions--Caroline Healy Dall on Messrs. Jenckes and Schenck--The
District of Columbia Suffrage Bill--Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, moved to strike out the word "male"--A
three days' debate in the Senate--The final vote nine in favor of Mr. Cowan's amendment, and thirty-seven
against 90
CHAPTER XVIII. 7
CHAPTER XVIII.
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS IN 1866-67.
The first National Woman Suffrage Convention after the war--Speeches by Ernestine L. Rose, Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, Henry Ward Beecher, Frances D. Gage, Theodore Tilton, Wendell Phillips--Petitions to
Congress and the Constitutional Convention--Mrs. Stanton a candidate to Congress--Anniversary of the Equal
Rights Association 152
CHAPTER XIX. 8
CHAPTER XIX.
THE KANSAS CAMPAIGN--1867.
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 Circulated--Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone Opened the
Campaign--Rev. Olympia Brown Followed--60,000 Tracts Distributed--Appeal Signed by Thirty-one
Distinguished Men--Letters from Helen E. Starrett, Susan E. Wattles, Dr. R. S. Tenney, Lieut.-Governor J. B.
Root, Rev. Olympia Brown--The Campaign closed by ex-Governor Robinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony, and the Hutchinson Family--Speeches and Songs at the Polls in every Ward in Leavenworth
Election Day--Both Amendments lost--9,070 Votes for Woman Suffrage, 10,843 for Negro Suffrage 229
CHAPTER XX. 9
CHAPTER XX.
NEW YORK CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Constitution Amended once in Twenty Years--Mrs. Stanton before the Legislature Claiming Woman's Right
to Vote for Members to the Convention--An Immense Audience in the Capitol--The Convention Assembled
June 4th, 1867. Twenty Thousand Petitions Presented for Striking the Word "Male" from the
Constitution--"Committee on the Right of Suffrage, and the Qualifications for Holding Office" Horace
Greeley, Chairman--Mr. Graves, of Herkimer, Leads the Debate in favor of Woman Suffrage--Horace
Greeley's Adverse Report--Leading Advocates Heard before the Convention--Speech of George William
Curtis on Striking the Word "Man" from Section 1, Article 11--Final Vote, 19 For, 125 Against--Equal Rights
Anniversary of 1868 269
CHAPTER XXI. 10
CHAPTER XXI.
RECONSTRUCTION.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments--Universal Suffrage and Universal Amnesty the Key-note of
Reconstruction--Gerrit Smith and Wendell Phillips hesitate--A Trying Period in the Woman Suffrage
Movement--Those Opposed to the word "Male" in the Fourteenth Amendment Voted Down in
Conventions--The Negro's Hour--Virginia L. Minor on Suffrage in the District of Columbia--Women Advised
to be Silent--The Hypocrisy of the Democrats preferable to that of the Republicans--Senator Pomeroy's
Amendment--Protests against a Man's Government--Negro Suffrage a Political Necessity--Charles Sumner
Opposed to the Fourteenth Amendment, but Voted for it as a Party Measure--Woman Suffrage for
Utah--Discussion in the House as to who Constitute Electors--Bills for Woman Suffrage presented by the
Hon. George W. Julian and Senators Wilson and Pomeroy--The Fifteenth Amendment--Anna E. Dickinson's
Suggestion--Opinions of Women on the Fifteenth Amendment--The Sixteenth Amendment--Miss Anthony
chosen a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention July 4, 1868--Her Address Read by a Unanimous
Vote--Horatio Seymour in the Chair--Comments of the Press--The Revolution 313
