Manuscript/Mixed Material Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right of women to vote for delegates to constitutional convention, New York
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Image 1 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … Elizabeth Cody Stanton SPEECHES WRITINGS FILE Speech Address on right of Women to vote for delegates to constitutional Convention 1867 Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 2 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … Manuscript of address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on right of women to vote for Delegates to Constitution Convention 1867 110 Taking the suggestions of the President Senator Summer let us this evening…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 3 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 11 represented in the coming convention that their representatives when assembled there shall so amend the constitution As to make all the citizens of the state equal before the law Many of…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 4 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 12 classes as well as those secured in the right of suffrage have an selfevident right to vote for delegates to a Constitutional Convention A state constitution must originate with be assented…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 5 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 13 delegates to said convention irrespective of sex or color The Legislatures of 1801 1821 at which time all men voted on a property qualification set aside there qualifications provided that all…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 6 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 14 Governors Senators Members derive their existence In deciding to hold a constitutional convention once in twenty years it was supposed that in that time in this age of progress the people…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 7 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 15 white must be represented in a convention to amend the constitution of the state since that time the women have begun to stir the demand now is that all the people…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 8 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 16 in selfdefense you must get out an expurgated editions of your codes constitutions lest for your gross violations of republican principles we impeach the whole of you The great difficulty to…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 9 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 17 principle that it takes a rogue to catch a rogue We may safely follow his advice set this swindling Congress on the heels of a usurping PresidentBut the only classes I…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 10 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 18 the state of New York grateful to Almighty God for our freedom in order to secure its blessings do establish this constitution art I sec I No member of this state…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 11 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 19 our constitution would need no amending to the end of time But having exhausted his magnanimity in one grand utterance he proceeds in article II sec I to throw overboard all…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 12 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 20 blessings to ourselves do establish this constitution As the letter now stands the 1st art is a flat contradiction of the second Now as I am the mother of half a…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 13 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 21 that men are what their mothers make the women of New York will bear the reproach of all your blunders inconsistencies The disfranchisement of any class of citizens is in direct…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 14 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 22 are people however weak insignificant are members of the state The law of the land is equality The question of disfranchisement has never been submitted to the judgement of their peers…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 15 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 23 case amounts to nothing on the other hand women negroes constituting a majority of the people of the state do not recognize a white male minority as their rightful rulers On…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 16 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 24 I read of Jeff Davis an artist was an engaged to prepare some emblematic picture for the State House of South Carolina Jeff was one of a committee to criticize the…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 17 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 25 You may well ask what is to become of the white male when the woman wakes up Already behold him the target for all the jibes jeers of the nation everybody…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 18 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 26 women stab him on the ground of his sex there is danger lest between them all the white male will be driven from the continent we be left in the condition…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 19 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 27 children left Oh Madam said she with great pathos in her voice dont you think this would be a very dreary world without men Yes said I Bridget I think it…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 20 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 28 may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage all persons who have been or may convicted of bribery of larceny or of any infamous crime for depriving every person who…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 21 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 29 the leaders of the late rebellion thus admitting that there is no severer penalty to be visited on any citizen than disfranchisement How humiliating for respectable law abiding women colored men…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 22 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 30 white male citizen be who publicly violates a wise law to which he has himself given an intelligent consent Gentlemen we are ashamed of our company The Mahomedan forbids a fool…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 23 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 31 duty But for the ballot which falls like a flake of snow upon the sod we can find no such excuse for New York legislators Art II sec III should be…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 24 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 32 residence by his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States nor while engaged in navigating the waters of the State or the United States or of…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 25 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 33 setting of white manhood that thus it can pass through the prison the asylum the Alms House the muddy waters of the Erie Canal come forth undimmed to appear at the…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 26 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 34 Just imagine the motley crew from the ten thousand dens of poverty vice in our large cities Wimping raving cringing staggering up to the hills while the loyal mothers of a…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 27 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 35 you make a sad confession of your irreligious mode of observing that most sacred right of citizenship The ballot box in a republican government should be guarded with as much love…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 28 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 36 of Holies for on it depends the safety stability of our government I for one am not willing to be represented by such voters as article II sec III welcomes to…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 29 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 37 of learning or the traveller on the toepath of your Erie Canal Now why is it that the rights of every type of mankind are so sacredly protected while no safeguards…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 30 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 38 township If he does not vote he is not taxed By the letter of your constitution he may live in the quiet prueprise of 249 worth of real estate not be…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 31 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … Taxation without representation was the theme for many a hot debate in the parliament of the old world for many an eloquent era oration in the forests of the new a Century…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 32 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 40 by the white male citizen I give you the opinion of James Otis he says there is no such phrase as virtual representation known in law or constitution It is altogether…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 33 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 41 the part of the man an involuntary representation on the part of the woman When the American colonies complained that they ought not to be taxed unless they were represented in…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 34 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 42 in Congress it would be rather a singular answer to say that they were represented by the senators from Massachusetts New York They would hardly be satisfied with that kind of…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 35 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 43 justice for another It is enough to fire the soul of any woman with indignation to read your statutes on this second Article of your Constitution as the panorama of the…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 36 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 44 feel with Shylock to exclaim Hath not a woman eyes hands organs dimensions senses passions fed with the same food hurt with the same weapons subject to the same diseases healed…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 37 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … By your false customs creeds codes 45 is revenging herself xYou have closed to her your colleges the profitable honourable posts of life You have bounded her sphere said thus far shalt…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 38 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 46 there behold the results of this wholesale desecration of the mothers of the race Go note the streets at the midnight hour there behold those whom God meant to be Queens…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 39 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 47 to the story of their young lives how they had been filched of their daily wages stimulated to dishonest practices by that class called fancy women I blushed for my sex…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 40 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1867; Address on right … 48 could we galvanize the women of this state into their right minds how soon we would change these horrid Bastiles into moral seminarys were all that is true good noble in…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01