Manuscript/Mixed Material Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of Disfranchisement,” National American Woman Suffrage Association convention, Washington, D.C., with clipping
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Image 1 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … Elizabeth Cady Stanton SPEECHES WRITINGS FILE Speech The Degradation of Dis franchisement National American Woman Suffrage Assoc Convention Wash DC 1841 With Clipping of Speech Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 2 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … Manuscript of speech Degradation of Disfranchisement delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Washington DC 1891 Manuscript of speech delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 3 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 2 at the very hour of birth If a fine boy the fact is announced in a tone of triumph that takes a minor key if a little girl when in a…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 4 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 4 honor emolument power if because just now Because through centuries of injustice oppression violence they chance to be the dominant sex just now they are supposed to be naturally superior forgetting…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 5 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 6 To say we do not that woman is as free as man is as absurd as the plea of the lawyer when talking to his client through the iron door of…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 6 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 8 discrimination is always based on the assumption that the ostracized classes are of an inferior order that they have not common feelings interests with themselves that they need the supervision protection…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 7 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 10 gives Ireland such as the Czar of Russia gives his subjects on the frozen plains of Siberia such as the eagles gives the lamb he carries to his eyrie Disenfranchanchisement is…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 8 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 12 fashionable meeting places of the American Republic The discrimminations against color and sex in the Unites States are lewd other forms of this same hateful spirit of caste Still sustained by…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 9 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 14 to the degradation of disfranchisement ME All men of intelligence appreciate the safety the dignity the power of holding the ballot in their own hands of having a voice in the…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 10 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 16 That all orders of foreigners rank politically above the most intelligent highly educated women native born Americans is indeed the most bitter drop in the cup of our grief that we…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 11 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 18 of even such evanescent distending between man and man That glorious Scotch poet Robert Burns from the depths of his poverty and despair might say triumphantly in an inspired moment a…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 12 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 20 that no turning wheel of fortune can change Take that noble man Robert Purvis with wealth education spotless character such as few white men possess with a family of cultivated sons…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 13 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 22 the invidious distinctions in society based on wealth position classes races how can anyone doubt that she feels the deeper degradation of disfranchisement based on sex This is the most unreasonable…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 14 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 24 of each other in race genius wealth position antagonizing brothers sisters husbands wives making rivals of men women in art science literature the whole realm of thought instead of being helpmeets…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 15 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 26 they have the power hold the weapons of defence but have not yet learned how to use them The bayonet the sword the gun are of not value to the soldier…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 16 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 28 Whenever it has been the interest of the ruling classes to extend new rights to those below them the battles have been fought for them victory secured with no effort on…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 17 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 30 Our reform is not lifting up an inferior order but recognizing the rights of equals It is more like two contending royal families for the crown sceptre the right by blood…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 18 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 32 the world has ever witnessed But its far reaching consequences increase the obstacles in the way of success for the selfish interests of all classes are against us The rulers in…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 19 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 34 The socialistic womans rights movements are but equal throbs of one great impulse towards equality liberty for all Again the rulers in the church are hostile to liberties for a sex…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 20 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 36 in his communications with Eve hers with Adam his with the Lord the final catastrophy turned into the great unexplored wilderness naked helpless to meet the terrible emergencies of the situation…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 21 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 38 The month of work the rivals of husband and father The family too is baked on the idea of womans subordination y man has no interest as far as he sees…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 22 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 40 one strand in her fourfold bondage was to loosen all McKeller Hence however stoutly the advocates of suffrage have maintained that political equality for woman would not effect religious faith nor…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 23 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 42 in the whole round of the circle we should perhaps have had a harder battle to fight but it would have been more effective far shorter Let us henceforth meet conservatives…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 24 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 44 even than all mans institutions If constitutions statute laws stand in the way of womans emancipation they must be amended to meet her wants needs of which she is a better…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 25 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 46 longing in the soul of woman for freedom growing stronger day by day that sooner or later will burst all bounds carry every barrier before her There are instincts alike in…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 26 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 48 soft ground They grow unruly it is hard to harness them in the light sledge the camp grows daily more unquiet Then the Laps nod to one another they watch the…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 27 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 50 Dowell few minutes they are gone to drink of the polar sea Ever swifter more terrible in their motion the ruthless herd has raced onward crowding the weaker to death careless…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 28 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … 52 a battle of the race in its struggles to satisfy the instincts for freedom for something of this same longing comes to every human soul to taste for once the sweet…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 29 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … THE WOMANS TRIBUNE SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7 1891 My speech on The Degradation of Disfranchisement The Degradation of Disfranchisement 76 Address by Mrs Stanton president of the National American woman Suffrage Association before…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 30 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … govern themselves But man has the prestige of centuries in his favor the force to maintain it and he has possession of the throne which is ninetenths of the law He has…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Image 31 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of … by its logical sincerity and its contagious earnestness There was therefore a fine audience assembled notwithstanding the lowering weather at the hour at which Miss Anthony opened the convention which must have…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Title
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Speeches; 1891, “The Degradation of Disfranchisement,” National American Woman Suffrage Association convention, Washington, D.C., with clipping
Names
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
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
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- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902
- mss41210, box 7; reel 4
Source Collection
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers
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- Manuscript Division
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