Book/Printed Material The Ballot and the bullet National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
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Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy VII, la No 13 POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDY SERIES Vol. III. December, 1897, No. 3 THE BALLOT AND THE BULLET COMPILED BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. PUBLISHED FOR The National America Woman Suffrage Association… -
Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy EX LIBRIS Carrie Chapman Catt I have six honest serving men, They taught me an I knew, Their names are Why & What & When And how & Where & Who. Kipling.… -
Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy THE BALLOT AND THE BULLET COMPLIED BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. PUBLISHED BY The National American Woman Suffrage Association 107 WORLD BUILDING, NEW YORK Philadelphia: PRESS OF ALFRED J. FERRIS. 1897. -
Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy CONTENTS. Female Warriors D. P. Livermore 11 The Right of Woman to the Ballot Charles H. Chapman 36 Republished with consent of the “Arena.” The Military Argument Alice Stone Blackwell 54 Address… -
Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy PREFACE. The struggle for individual political liberty has extended over a period of seven hundred years, and even in the most highly civilized nations it is not yet closed. It dates its… -
Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 6 been forced to prove its patriotism, its loyalty, its intelligence and its virtue. Each class has met the charges that the voting privilege would prove demoralizing to its members, a serious… -
Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 7 to learn the arguments for and against woman suffrage, he could find them all in the written history of the enfranchisement of the non-taxpayers in the United States, the small rate-payers… -
Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 8 braved both the dangers of war and discovery, and served with honor in the ranks of soldiers, North and South, while it was no uncommon incident for men to hide or… -
Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 9 Civil War. The address before a Senate hearing by Hon. John Davis, an ex-Congressman of Kansas, is given entire. A paper by Alice Stone Blackwell, the worthy daughter of the illustrious… -
Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy FEMALE WARRIORS. One prominent objection to woman suffrage is that women cannot fight, and therefore cannot enforce their will, nor execute such laws as they might enact. This objection is based on… -
Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 12 Men do not now fight to carry on the government and execute their will, and there are thousands of men who vote, who have no fighting ability, and no physical strength… -
Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 13 America. It is not enough to say that they belong to a class that can and will fight; the fact is that they do not and will not fight. If there… -
Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 14 thrashing that he bellowed loud as nine thousand warriors. And Father Zeus, whose sympathy he craved, thought that it served him right. It is decreed that intelligence, which Homer deified in… -
Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 15 extraordinary sagacity and military skill, that they have been as succesful on the field of battle as male generals. If women could receive the same military education as men, there is… -
Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 16 where a stout, healthy body is regarded almost as much of a misfortune as to have an intelligent face and a strong mind! This great question is not to be relegated… -
Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 17 good a soldier, if indeed not better, than a man of gigantic proportions and strength. A soldier who can lift one hundred pounds is quite as effective in battle as one… -
Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 18 been obliged to leave the army immediately; and it is hardly fair to say that women cannot fight. It is not true, as Mrs. Leonard asserts, that women are “incapable of… -
Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 19 A writer in the “New American Cyclopœdia” says, “She was in intimate correspondence with the two Adamses, Jefferson and other distinguished patriots, who were accustomed to consult her on momentous occasions.”… -
Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 20 sent Paul Revere on his famous ride to Concord and Lexington, to warn the people of approaching danger; also, that two women of Concord, disguised in men's apparel, captured a spy… -
Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 21 Dedham as told by Mrs. Ellet, were no less important to the army. Feeling deeply for her “distressed country,” as one of the self-sacrificing women of the Revolution, on the first… -
Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 22 man I would go with you.” A mother who could give such Spartan advice to her sons, would lay down her own life for her country. The story of Deborah Samson,… -
Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 23 much suffering, says her biographer, as the thought that her sex would be discovered, and she dismissed from the service perhaps in disgrace. She was finally stricken down with brain fever,… -
Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 24 Congress in which honorable mention is made of the services of Mrs. Margaret Corbin, thus: “Resolved:—That Margaret Corbin, wounded and disabled at the attack on Fort Washington, while she heroically filled… -
Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 25 and she was dismissed from the service and sent home. But she fought as well as any man. According to this record women are as patriotic as men, and show quite… -
Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 26 Francis L. Clayton, who enlisted in 1861 with her husband at St. Paul, Minn. The two fought together side by side in eighteen battles, till the husband was killed in the… -
Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 27 a soldier, her sex was not discovered till her death, which occurred at Timonsville, S. C., where her grave may now be seen. On one occasion, at Lookout Mountain, when it… -
Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 28 discovered. She then enlisted in the 90th Illinois, and was taken prisoner in a battle near Chattanooga. After her release from a rebel prison, she again enlisted in the 2d East… -
Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 29 While the number of women who listed in the Union army is not large, still, they are sufficiently numerous to answer the objection which may make against the fighting ability of… -
Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 30 composed the rank and file of the fighting ability of armies, the same as men. They have stood side by side of male soldiers and have shown strength and bravery quite… -
Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 31 last defeat at the hands of a woman warrior, Queen Tomyris. By much cunning and strategy, Cyrus left a large amount of wine, so that the forces commanded by the nephew… -
Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 32 took a prominent share in the fearful scenes of blood shed. When a place needed to be defended, women at once took up arms, and assisted the men to defeat the… -
Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 33 on the list of lieutenants. She received an annual pension of twenty pounds. She died in January, 1841, at Menin, where she was buried with military honors, her funeral being attended… -
Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 34 An Austrian officer, in giving an account of his army, says: “We had wives and daughters of frontier soldiers with us on the march through Hungary, who equaled the men in… -
Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 35 served in the British army for forty years as an officer, took part in several battles, and was renowned not only as a physician, but as a skillful surgeon.” We might… -
Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 36 THE RIGHT OF WOMAN TO THE BALLOT. BY CHARLES H. CHAPMAN. I have read Mr. Rossiter Johnson's pamphlet entitled “The Blank-Cartridge Ballot,” and am very much pleased with it. It is… -
Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 37 pretty good fight against a burglar, highwayman, or other ruffian. Without commenting on Jeanne d'Arc, the Countess de Montford, and other memories of the dark ages, we can refer Mr. Johnson… -
Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 38 as he looks and a wonder in the gymnasium, but he hasn't got the ‘sand’ to play football.” “Where the spirit is lacking, the flesh is weak.” Woman possesses courage in… -
Image 38 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 39 matter. Nations in warfare call upon every resource they can command. Why is it that woman, if she can fight as well as you claim to show, has never been called… -
Image 39 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 40 doing their share at home and bearing the burdens of men in addition to their own, besides working extensively in the hospitals and commissary departments, that the service tax is pretty… -
Image 40 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 41 Mr. Johnson thinks so small as to be not worth while barring out. The men actually under arms on both sides in the “late unpleasantness” numbered about three millions. The total…
About this Item
Title
- The Ballot and the bullet
Summary
- This is a collection of essays written to refute the argument that women should not be enfranchised because they are incapable of defending their right to vote by military service.
Names
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, comp
- Livermore, D. P. (Daniel Parker), 1818-1899
- Chapman, Charles H.
- Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
- Davis, John, 1826-1901
- National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : Published for The National American Woman Suffrage Association : Press of Alfred J. Ferris, 1897.
Contents
- Female warriors / D.P. Livermore. -- The right of woman to the ballot / Charles H. Chapman. -- The military argument / Alice Stone Blackwell. -- Address before the United States Senate Committee / Hon. John Davis.
Headings
- - Women--Suffrage
Medium
- 73 p. ; 17 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- JF851 .C3
- Microfilm 32064 JF
- JK1881 .N357 sec. VII, no. 1a, #13 Another copy. Bookplate of Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- ca11002415
Online Format
- image
- online text