Book/Printed Material The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at West Chester, Pa., June 2d and 3d, 1852. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
-
Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION HELD AT WEST CHESTER, PA. June 2d and 3d, 1852. PHILADELPHIA: MERRIHEW AND THOMPSON, PRINTERS, No. 7 Carter's Alley. 1852.- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy REPORT. -Wednesday, June 2d, 1852.Morning Session. Pursuant to public notice, a Convention of those interested in the subject of Woman's Rights assembled in the Horticultural Hall, West Chester, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, June...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 4 honorable and lucrative employment (now unjustly and unwisely closed;) if it shall aid in securing to them more thorough Intellectual and Moral Culture; if it shall excite higher aspirations; if it...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 5 soul, there comes a knowledge which our ancestors did not possess, and that is, that human unity is the grand aim of creation, and also, that this unity, this harmony, this...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 6 and acknowledging her potent sway, should shrink from it, while he considers her thus weak and ignorant, for nothing is more common than to hear him say, ‘what does a woman...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 7 Business Committee. — James Mott, Ann Preston, Lucretia Mott, Frances D. Gage, Sarah D. Barnard, Dr. Harriet K. Hunt, Joseph A. Dugdale, Margaret Jones, Ernestine L. Rose, Alice Jackson, Jacob Painter,...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 8 race, if they would be prepared to transmit a vigorous and healthful intellectual constitution in their children, and be qualified to guard the infancy of a great and virtuous people, must...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 9 the world stood prepared for the reception of a new thought, which is destined to work a revolution in human society, more beneficent than any that has preceded it. The seeds...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 10 her influence directly for the removal of all the evils that afflict the race; and that she be permitted to do this in the manner dictated by her own sense and...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 11 and partake of the fruits which they enjoy.” “Go, my daughter,” is the paternal response. “Be unto man, in an infinitely higher sense than heretofore, a help-meet.” Now how is woman...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 12 power can dress it in the habiliments of the grave, and bury it out of sight, either in Potter's field or under the magnificent Mausoleum. There is nothing so precious to...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 13 and of similar Conventions with which we have become familiar, we have no hesitation in declaring our entire sympathy with the movement, as one which lies as the foundation of all...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 14 But there are other indications of advancement in this particular, still more encouraging, because they exhibit fruits of the most ennobling powers of the human understanding. We allude to those benevolent...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 15 1. Resolved, That women are entitled by natural right to equal participation with men in the political institutions required for the protection of the whole people; and that it is a...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 16 or expediency of women voting. The question is, shall they exercise the right so to do;—the propriety should be left to themselves. Women can now travel alone securely, where formerly it...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 17 is roused to the imperfection of our present system, in which the physical nature and the duties of life are equally neglected. I believe that the chief source of the false...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 18 Mrs. Nichols spoke earnestly of the imperfect education of woman. She has no knowledge of the laws of health, nor has she the means of obtaining the required information. Men hold...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 19 Mrs. Mott spoke of the great change in public opinion, within her recollection, in regard to the so-called sphere of woman. There had been progress. Twenty-five years ago people wondered how...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 20 ruling as she professed to rule—by divine right. True, many of these Sovereigns have not a foot of ground, and but one subject, a wife; but then he has absolute control...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 21 in law. The was one thing women gained by that contest; they gained a clearer knowledge of their rights, a better understanding of their wrongs, which, according to Blackstone, are a...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 22 But we are told that marriage is a contract, voluntarily entered into by competent parties, and by this contract the rights of the woman are transferred to the man. But marriage...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 23 confusion and perversion of nature which would occur if the doctrine of the equal rights of man and woman was once admitted. The idea seems to prevail that movements for the...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 24 by its provisions—widows separated from their children, who, if they had the disposal of their own and their husband's mutual property, might have retrieved their circumstances, and kept the household band...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 25 She best can fulfil the duties of wife and mother, who is fitted for other and varied usefulness. The being who lives for one relation only cannot possess the power and...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 26 find its own level; that woman cannot, if she would, cast away her nature and instincts; that it is only when we are left free to obey the inward attractions of...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 27 soul,” then, and not till then, may she rightly commit to him the direction of her powers and activities. We ask, in fine, for the application of the fundamental principles of...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 28 marry again, (for I cannot pretend to set limits to the will or providence of God,) yet I trust and herewith express my confidence that she will conduct herself toward our...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 29 The extract from Luther's will which has been read, while it gives evidence of the appreciation of the services of his wife, to a certain extent, and manifests a generous disposition...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 30 regulation of the government of more than one hundred millions of human beings ... I have a consciousness that I have not done my duty, in not sooner urging these considerations...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 31 might not be licensed. The Judge thereupon remarked that “woman's place was in the nursery and the parlor, and that when she interfered with public affairs, or set herself up as...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 32 It is not, as many persons imagine, a small insurrection against authority, or even tyranny, in the domestic circle; nor is its object limited to the alleviation of that unspoken and...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 33 peace and virtue. Although institutions which recognize all the rights of all classes of the people, and allow scope for the growth and activity of every faculty, must, in their very...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 34 freedom is lost, in the constant vigilance demanded to watch his victims; and by so teaching us that we cannot bind a chain on the neck of any man, without finding...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 35 might be a curious and instructive inquiry, how far that church owes its perpetuity, despite its gigantic crimes and crushing despotism, to the recognition of “Mary the mother of God.” In...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 36 pre-ordained—not in the theological but in the physiological sense—to violence and crime, and they go forth to make their calling and election sure. From these the world recruits its armies, renews...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 37 duties and those of us who have the privilege of their friendship may point with silent exultation to Lucretia Mott and Mrs. Mira Townsend of Philadelphia, and many others whose names...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
-
Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 38 15. Resolved, That the distinctive traits of female character like is distinct physical organism, having its foundation in nature, the widest range of thought and action, and the highest cultivation and...- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852