Manuscript/Mixed Material Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery”
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Image 1 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” Elizabeth Cady Stanton Speeches Writings File Speech AntiSlavery c 1860 J Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 2 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” Speech at an AntiSlavery meeting by Eliz Cady Stanton before the Civil War 1860 Antislavery Words 4200 VI Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 3 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 1 This is generally known as the platform of one idea that is negro slavery This opinion only shows the ignorance of those who entertain it for In a certain sense this…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 4 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 2 question of religious philanthropy political economy commerce education social life on which depends the very existence of this republic of the state of the family the sacredness of the lives property…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 5 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 3 we find out the exact limits of our own for rights never clash or interfere where each no individual in a community is denied in the full engagement of all his…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 6 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 4 without deranging the whole system of government It was thought a small matter to kidnap a black man in Africa set him to work on the rice swamps of Georgia but…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 7 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 5 negro who under the cover of darkness the star spangled banner was stolen from his African hut lodged in the world of the American slaver That one act has in its…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 8 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 6 of man the value of the immortal being the other but from the self respect of one proud race But in spite of the noble words deeds of thirty years of…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 9 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 7 guilty nation for he has waged an uncompromising warfare with the deadly sins of both church state My own experience is no doubt that of many others In the darkness gloom…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 10 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” for when he first called this American church to its awful reckoning 8 is not less galling than the slave because we do not see the chains the indelible scars the festering…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 11 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 9 I do not believe all history affords another such example as this so called Garrisonian conspiracy a body of educated men of decided talent wealth rank position standing for a quarter…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 12 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 10 sympathy they have cheered their exile from the love honor of their own false countrymen at their family altars he then has been remembered unseen spirits of the brave true have…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 13 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” of this radical antislavery movement is not to the African slave alone but to the slaves of custom creed sex as well 11 convention one half the world left out Shame on…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 14 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 12 at what fear has done from the beginning at what an abject helpless slave man has ever been to this worst of tyranny Behold how long through ignorance he crouched in…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 15 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 13 Has not man enough to fear that is outward that is external to himself the accidents of earth air fire water his ignorance of the laws of life death is it…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 16 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 14 all the mysteries of nature you will find no inflictions on the human family so terrible so protracted as those which man has conjured up for himself What are all the…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 17 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 15 of any from such darkness bondage Who that sees a mind oppressed with the traditions of ages in its first agonizings for life love law would dare to obstruct its vision…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 18 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 16 motion swelling heaving up down And sweeter far than foothold firm on solid land Is to the soul a faith that it can understand As we rejoice this day in our…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 19 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 17 neither man nor God He was made perfect in love the future was bright beautiful to him for he had done the will of his Father with joy he went out…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 20 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 18 I ask no higher honor in the gift of this nation for any sons of mine than a gallows a grave like thine As these sons now gather round me ask…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 21 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 19 when first proclaimed at the mouth of the Cannon raised us head shoulders above the nations of the earth It is all important in a republican government that our laws be…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 22 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” Must they degrade not the mothers who gave them life 20 a sacred reverence for law so frame your constitutions your codes that in yielding obedience to their requirements they are not…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 23 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” Mr President Yes I must ever teach them that man alone is divine His words works are fallible His institutions however venerable with age authority his constitutions laws interpretations of holy writ…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 24 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 22 strength In conversation with Reverend gentleman not long ago I chanced to speak of the injustice done to woman in denying any pew holders a right to vote in church matters…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 25 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 23 two million native born American women at this very hour doomed to the foulest slavery that angels ever wept to witness Are they not doubly damned as immortal beasts of burthen…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 26 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 24 the right to read the Bible For them whom there is no sabbath no Jesus no Heaven no hope no holy mission of wife mother no privacy of home nothing sacred…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 27 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” But I am a christian a follower of Jesus whatever is done unto one of the least of these my sisters is done unto me Though in the person of the sad…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 28 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 26 the English language as dead to us me as Egyptian hieroglyphics yet we I can I still talk with God From majestic rivers mighty forests we I have learned his power…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 29 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 27 in their silent majesty beauty we I have asked the everlasting hills that in their great grandeur upward yearning seemed to touch the Heavens if I an immortal beings though clothed…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 30 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 28 tender flesh was made but to crawl shiver in the cold foul embrace of a southern tyrant in stifled sobs they have sighed it answered no ah no Thank you oh…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 31 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 29 woe for now by an eternal law of matter mind when the reaction comes upward upward still upward she shall rise behold him for whom your priestly robes your bloody altars…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 32 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 30 Eloquently earnestly as you noble men have damned slavery on this platform you they have never been able to take any but only an objective view They can describe the general…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 33 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 32 to clip her wings check their aspirations fetter ther limbs lest in their freedom strength in their full development they should take an even platform with proud man himself she should…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 34 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 33 of degradation is the skin sex the scarlet letter so sadly worn upon the breast Children even can define the sphere of the black man the most ignorant Irishman him into…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 35 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 34 Well thank Heaven there is one free being in the universe for whom mortal tongue has not yet presumed to bound a sphere Where rights are limitless as space Let us…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 36 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery” 36 in all the arts of war government social life now to get beyond the sneers of woman in very shame but with a show of bravery he hies him off to…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1860-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; [1860?], “Antislavery”
Names
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Created / Published
- 1860 - 1869
Headings
- - Women--Education
- - Feminism
- - National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)
- - Social problems--United States--History--19th century
- - Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--19th century
- - Women--Suffrage
- - Women's rights
- - Reformers
- - Suffragists
- - Feminists
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902
- mss41210, box 4; reel 2
Source Collection
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers
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- Manuscript Division
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- online text
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