Manuscript/Mixed Material Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1870; Speech before Young Men's Suffrage Association, Plympton Hall
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Image 1 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1870; Speech before Young … Elizabeth Cady Stanton SPEECHES WRITINGS FILE Speech before Young Mens Suffrage Assoc Plympton Hall 1870 Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … Manuscript of speech delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton before the Young Mens Suffrage Association at Plympton Hall in 1870 Manuscript of speech delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton before Young Mens Suffrage Association…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … I believe I have the honor this evening of speaking before the first Young Mens Woman Suffrage organization ever formed I have watched this movement with much interest because it forms a…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 2 tyrants oppressors so called shall band together to break our chains proclaim liberty throughout the land just as the Garrisons Phillips Birneys Smiths did for the slaves on the Southern plantations…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 2 logic philosophy science law on this controversy we shall have done with the intellectual twaddle sentimental gush of the womans rights conventions that have so sorely tried the press of our…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 3 4 governed by prejudices precedents but they will base their opinions utterances on facts in Nature not the falsehoods of artificial conditions Now thought I we shall have the broad question…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 5 more easily conducted when viewing wrongs objectively than when suffering them in ones own flesh Hence I heartily welcome these advocates from the ruling class as they can be an immense…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 6 yet had the black man been left to plead his own case An advocate can say so many things for his client that she could not well say herself that standing…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 7 To eulogize your own sex seems so much like selfpraise that I confess I have oftimes in summing up the virtues victories of woman felt ashamed of the flattering plea 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 8 Young men thoroughly imbued with the idea of womans right to life liberty the pursuit of happiness can utter so many courteous words perform so many graceful deeds that I already…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 9 young gentlemen that your example will be followed throughout the country And now having taken up the gauntlet in our defence do not be affected by what your seniors onesided half…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 10 of men in regard to the nature capacity of women are worth no more in the settlement of this question than were was the opinions of slaveholders on the great problem…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 11 It is difficult for men who have past the median of life to divest themselves of the prejudices of education form new opinions Hence I am not surprized when even so…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 12 that a woman is in the keeping of a man that society exists for man only that is for women merely as they are represented by man And this right of…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … I for one am glad to have these statements boldly made Give me an open battlefield on an open plain I detest the Indian skulking system so long practiced by men behind…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 14 contracts to sue be sued Thus They took the first step towards the complete recognition of the individual sovereignty of woman A majority of the States of hte union have copied…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 15 the face of the anathemas of the church the ridicule of the press the stern wisdom of scientific thinkers Had Herbert Spencer lived in America seen the independence intelligence of our…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 16 reviewing books for our leading Journals editing papers themselves farming telegraphing tea merchants going themselves to China bargaining with the natives for their cargos to bring home could he see all…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 17 all sufficiency of man must have been completely upheaved by some earthquake in America And it is a singular fact that simultaneously with our first womans rights conventions the earthquakes began…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 18 capacity power achievement social position intellectual acquirement the more deeply I feel that political degradation that makes you sovereign me subject Goldwin Smith another Englishman at the laying of the corner…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 19 doing aught to rouse a feeling of rivalry between men women He feared this might be one effect of coeducation You might as well fear to have boys girls dance play…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … Who objects to women in the theatre or opera lest a feeling of rivalry might spring up A fine bass wants a soprano of equal skill power A McCready Kembell Kean or…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … evening shows that sincere earnest women can rise into an atmosphere beyond the reach of rivalry or envy 21 in his circle of acquaintance had been superior to himself He would have…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 22 they could not maintain a position in the classics higher mathematics When admitted they took their places at once at the head in any department Then it was said their minds…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 23 out of the course from ill health than women Then our philosophers took a broader sweep said that with higher intelligence cultivation among women population would necessarily decrease Transcribed and reviewed…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … Dr Clark and the Nation work together aided by Maudsley and Allen and other male assistants to prove that population is lessening in America attributing this to women and that the nativeborn…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 25 they loved through ill timed fits of fainting hysteria roused a public sentiment against such manifestations they ceased altogether This is an encouragement to you young gentlemen to cultivate a public…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … I begin of late to think that education is a bad thing for men Poor fellows their health does not bear up under the strain of study There is Huxley now who…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 27 to enter into the minds of men that the civil political natural rights of a woman as a citizen of a republic transcend those of all accidental transient relations The whole…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 28 Ever since the final womans rights convention was held in 48 the cry has been this reform will unsex woman destroy the family annihilate marriage annul cradles leave the stockings to…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 29 Buckley in an article lately published in The Independent gives his reasons why the right of suffrage should not be extended to woman He says in substance that the right of…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 30 where two independent individual wills could not exist without the complete disruption of the marriage relation This mans idea is clearly stated that the family is must be based on the…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 31 in general How does Mr Buckley know that Because they endure a condition in which they are held by law gospel custom Does he think they enjoy it I suppose on…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … THE GREATEST OF BUGABOOS LETTER FROM MRS E CADY STANTON You ask for my definition of Free Love I hasten to say it means nothing it is simply the cry of wolf…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … THE GREATEST OF BUGABOOS LETTER FROM MRS E CADY STANTON You ask for my definition of Free Love I hasten to say it means nothing it is simply the cry of wolf…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 33 We have settled the possibility in this country of having a state without a king a church without a Pope a good currency without a gold basis now we are to…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 34 generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal at the fireside here is the secret of the opposition to womans equality in the state…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 35 As long as man makes interprets executes the laws he controls our political religious social life holds absolute power under any system Hence when he expresses the opinion that suffrage for…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … 36 her own choosing that if she had the power the relation of the sexes would be essentially changed And this is just what is coming to pass the kernel of the…- 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; 1870; Speech before Young … This is womans transition period from slavery to freedom all these social upheavings before which the wisest bravest stand appalled are but necessary incidents in her progress to equality Conservatism cries out…- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1870; Speech before Young Men's Suffrage Association, Plympton Hall
Names
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Created / Published
- 1848 - 1902
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 5; reel 3
Source Collection
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers
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- Manuscript Division
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