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TABLES OF CONTENTS OF

VOLUMES

HISTORY OF WOMEN'S

SUFFRAGE

Volume One of Four Volumes

Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,

Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn

Gage

Illustrated With Steel Engravings

1848-1861.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.page
PRECEDING CAUSES.
CHAPTER II.
WOMAN IN NEWSPAPERS.
CHAPTER III.
THE WORLD'S ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION, LONDON, JUNE 13, 1840.
Individualism rather than Authority—Personal appearance of Abolitionists—Attempt to silence

Woman—Doable battle against the tyranny of sex and color—Bigoted Abolitionists—James G.
Birney likes freedom on a Southern plantation, but not at his own fireside—John Bull never dreamt
that Woman would answer his call—The venerable Thomas Clarkson received by the Convention
standing—Lengthy debate on "Female" delegates—The "Females" rejected—William Lloyd Garrison
refusing to sit in the Convention50

CHAPTER IV.
NEW YORK.

The First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, July 19-80, 1848—Property Bights of

Women secured—Judge Fine, George Geddes, and Mr. Hadley pushing the Bill through—Danger of
meddling with well-settled conditions of domestic happiness—Mrs. Barbara Hertell's will—Richard
Hunt's
tea-table—The eventful day—James Mott President—Declaration of sentiments—

Convention in Rochester—Opposition with Bible arguments63

CHAPTER V.
MRS. COLLINS' REMINISCENCES.
The first Suffrage Society—Methodist class-leader whips his wife—Theology enchains the soul—

The status of women and slaves the same—The first medical college opened to women—Petitions to
the Legislature laughed at, and laid on the table—Dependence woman's best protection; her
weakness her sweetest charm—Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's letter—Sketch of Ernestine L. Rose88

CHAPTER VI.
OHIO.
The promised land of fugitives—"Uncle Tom's Cabin"—Salem Convention, 1850—Akron, 1851

—Massilon, 1853—The address to the women of Ohio—The Mohammedan law forbidding pigs,
dogs, women, and other impure animals to enter a Mosque—The New York Tribune—Cleveland
Convention, 1853—Hon. Joshua K. Giddings—Letter from Horace Greeley—A glowing eulogy to
Mary Wollstonecraft—William Henry Channing's Declaration—The pulpit and public sentiment—
President Asa Mahan debates—The Rev. Dr. Nevin pulls Mr. Garrison's nose—Antoinette L.
Brown describes her exit from the World's Temperance Convention—Cincinnati Convention, 1855
—Jane Elizabeth Jones' Report, 1861101

CHAPTER VII.
REMINISCENCES BY CLARINA I. HOWARD NICHOLS.
Vermont: Editor Windham County Democrat—Property Laws, 1847 and 1849—Address to

the Legislature on school suffrage, 1852.

Wisconsin: Woman's State Temperance Society—Lydia F. Fowler in company—Opposition of

Clergy—"Woman's Rights" wouldn't do—Advertised "Men's Rights."

Kansas: Free State Emigration, 1854—Gov. Robinson and Senator Pomeroy—Woman's Rights

speeches on Steamboat, and at Lawrence—Constitutional Convention, 1859—State Woman
Suffrage Association—John O. Wattles, President—Aid from the Francis Jackson Fund—
Canvassing the State—School Suffrage gained.

Missouri: Lecturing at St. Joseph, 1858, on Col. Scott's Invitation—Westport and the John Brown

raid, 1859—St. Louis, 1854—Frances D. Gage, Rev. Wm. G. Eliot, and Rev. Mr. Weaver171

CHAPTER VIII.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Women in the Revolution—Anti-Tea Leagues—Phillis Wheatley—Mistress Anne Hutchinson—

Heroines in the Slavery Conflict—Women Voting under the Colonial Charter—Mary Upton Ferrin
Petitions the Legislature in 1848—Woman's Rights Convention in 1850, '51—Letter of Harriet
Martineau from England—Letter of Jeannie Deroine from a Prison Cell in Paris—Editorial from The
Christian Enquirer—The Una, edited by Paulina Wright Davis—Constitutional Convention in 1858
—Before the Legislature in 1857—Harriot K. Hunt's Protest against Taxation—Lucy Stone's Protest
against the Marriage Laws—Boston Conventions—Theodore Parker on Woman's Position201

CHAPTER IX.
INDIANA AND WISCONSIN.
Indiana Missionary Station—Gen. Arthur St. Clair—Indian surprises—The terrible war-whoop—

One hundred women join the army, and are killed fighting bravely—Prairie schooners—
Manufactures in the hands of women—Admitted to the Union in 1816—Robert Dale Owen—
Woman Suffrage Conventions—Wisconsin—C. L. Sholes' report290

CHAPTER X.
PENNSYLVANIA.
William Penn—Independence Hall—British troops—Heroism of women—Lydia Darrah—Who

designed the Flag—Anti-slavery movements in Philadelphia—Pennsylvania Hall destroyed by a mob
—David Paul Brown—Fugitives—Millard Fillmore—John Brown—Angelina Grimké—Abby Kelly
—Mary Grew—Temperance in 1848—Hannah Darlington and Ann Preston before the Legislature
—Medical College for Women in 1850—Westchester Woman's Rights Convention, 1852—
Philadelphia Convention, 1854—Lucretia Mott answers Richard H. Dana—Jane Grey Swisshelm—
Sarah Josepha Hale—Anna McDowell—Rachel Foster searching the records—Sketch of Angelina
Grimké320

CHAPTER XI.
LUCRETIA MOTT.

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Eulogy at the Memorial Services held at Washington by the National Woman Suffrage

Association, January 19, 1881. By Elizabeth Cady Stanton407

CHAPTER XII.
NEW JERSEY.
Tory feeling in New Jersey—Hannah Arnett rebuked the traitor spirit—Mrs. Dissosway rejects all

proposals to disloyalty—Triumphal arch erected by the ladies of Trenton in honor of Washington—
His letter to the ladies—The origin of Woman Suffrage in New Jersey—A paper read by William A.
Whitehead before the Historical Society—Defects in the Constitution of New Jersey—A singular
pamphlet called "Eumenes"—Opinion of Hon. Charles James Fox—Mr. Whitehead reviewed441

CHAPTER XIII.
MRS. STANTON'S REMINISCENCES.
Mrs. Stanton's and Miss Anthony's first meeting—An objective view of these ladies from a friend's

standpoint—A glimpse at their private life—The pronunciamentos they issued from the fireside—
Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Seward, Mrs. Worden, Mrs. Mott, in council—How Mrs. Worden voted—
Ladies at Newport dancing with low necks and short sleeves, and objecting to the publicity of the
platform—Senator Seward discussing Woman's Rights at a dinner-party—Mrs. Seward declares
herself a friend to the reform—A magnetic circle in Central New York—Matilda Joslyn Gage: her
early education and ancestors—A series of Anti-Slavery Conventions from Buffalo to Albany—
Mobbed at every point—Mayor Thatcher maintains order in the Convention at the Capital—Great
excitement over a fugitive wife from the insane asylum—The Bloomer costume—Gerrit Smith's
home456

CHAPTER XIV.
NEW YORK.
First Steps in New York—Woman's Temperance Convention, Albany, January, 1852—New

York Woman's State Temperance Society, Rochester, April, 1852—Women before the Legislature
pleading for a Maine Law—Women rejected as Delegates to Men's State Conventions at Albany
and Syracuse, 1852; at the Brick Church Meeting and World's Temperance Convention In New
York, 1853—Horace Greeley defends the Rights of Women In The New York Tribune—The
Teachers' State Conventions—The Syracuse National Woman's Rights Convention, 1852—Mob in
the Broadway Tabernacle Woman's Rights Convention through two days, 1853—State Woman's
Rights Convention at Rochester, December, 1853—Albany Convention, February, 1854, and
Hearing before the Legislature demanding the Right of Suffrage—A State Committee appointed—
Susan B. Anthony General Agent—Conventions at Saratoga Springs, 1854, '55, '59—Annual State
Conventions with Legislative Hearings and Reports of Committees, until the War—Married
Women's Property Law, 1860—Bill before the Legislature Granting Divorce for Drunkenness—
Horace Greeley and Thurlow Weed oppose it—Ernestine L. Rose, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton Address the Legislature in favor of the Bill—Robert Dale Owen defends the Measure
in The New York Tribune—National Woman's Rights Conventions in New York City, 1856, '58,
'59, '60—Status of the Woman's Rights Movement at the Opening of the War, 1861472

CHAPTER XV.
WOMAN, CHURCH, AND STATE.
Woman under old religions—Woman took part in offices of early Christian Church Councils—

Original sin—Celibacy of the clergy—Their degrading sensuality—Feudalism—Marriage—Debasing
externals and daring ideas—Witchcraft—Three striking points for consideration—Burning of Witches
—Witchcraft in New England—Marriage with devils—Rights of property not recognized in woman
—Wife ownership—Women legislated for as slaves—Marriage under the Greek Church—The Salic
and Cromwellian eras—The Reformation—Woman under monastic rules in the home—The Mormon
doctrine regarding woman; its logical result—Milton responsible for many existing views in regard to
woman—Woman's subordination taught to-day—The See trial—Right Rev. Coxe—Rev. Knox-
Little—Pan-Presbyterians—Quakers not as liberal as they have been considered—Restrictive action
of the Methodist Church—Offensive debate upon ordaining Miss Oliver—The Episcopal Church and
its restrictions—Sunday-school teachings—Week-day school teachings—Sermon upon woman's
subordination by the President of a Baptist Theological Seminary—Professor Christlieb of Germany
—"Dear, will you bring me my shawl?"—Female sex looked upon as a degradation—A sacrilegious
child—Secretary Evarts, in the Beecher-Tilton trial, upon woman's subordination—Women
degraded in science and education—Large-hearted men upon woman's degradation—Wives still
sold in the market-place as "mares," by a halter around their necks—Degrading servile labor
performed
by
woman
in
Christian
countries—A
lower degradation—"Queen's

women"—"Government women"—Interpolations in the Bible—Letter from Howard Crosby, D.D.,
LL.D.752

APPENDIX

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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS

Frances Wright
Frontispiece

Ernestine L. Wright
page 97

Frances D. Gage
129

Clarina Howard Nichols
193

Paulina Wright Davis
273

Lucretia Mott
369

Antoinette L. Brown
449

Amelia Bloomer
497

Susan B. Anthony
577

Martha C. Wright
641

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
721

Matilda Joslyn Gage
753

HISTORY OF WOMAN

SUFFRAGE

Volume Two of Four Volumes

Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,

Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn

Gage

Illustrated With Steel Engravings

1861-1876.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XVI.page
WOMAN'S PATRIOTISM IN THE WAR.
The first gun on Sumter, April 12, 1861—Woman's military genius—Anna Ella Carroll—The

Sanitary Movement—Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell—The Hospitals—Dorothea Dix—Services on the
battle-field—Clara Barton—The Freedman's Bureau—Josephine Griffing—Ladies' National
Covenant—Political campaigns—Anna Dickinson—The Woman's Loyal National League—The
Mammoth Petition—Anniversaries—The Thirteenth Amendment1

CHAPTER XVII.
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION.
First Petitions to Congress December, 1865, against the word "male" in the 14th Amendment—

Joint resolutions before Congress—Messrs. Jenckes, Schenck, Broomall, and Stevens—
Republicans protest in presenting petitions—The women seek aid of Democrats—James Brooks in
the House of Representatives—Horace Greeley on the petitions—Caroline Healy Dall on Messrs.
Jenckes and Schenck—The District of Columbia Suffrage Bill—Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania,
moved to strike out the word "male"—A three days' debate in the Senate—The final vote nine in
favor of Mr. Cowan's amendment, and thirty-seven against90

CHAPTER XVIII.
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS IN 1866-67.
The first National Woman Suffrage Convention after the war—Speeches by Ernestine L. Rose,

Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Henry Ward Beecher, Frances D. Gage, Theodore Tilton, Wendell
Phillips—Petitions to Congress and the Constitutional Convention—Mrs. Stanton a candidate to
Congress—Anniversary of the Equal Rights Association152

CHAPTER XIX.
THE KANSAS CAMPAIGN—1867.
The Battle Ground of Freedom—Campaign of 1867—Liberals did not Stand by their Principles—

Black Men Opposed to Woman Suffrage—Republican Press and Party Untrue—Democrats in
Opposition—John Stuart Mill's Letters and Speeches Extensively Circulated—Henry B. Blackwell
and Lucy Stone Opened the Campaign—Rev. Olympia Brown Followed—60,000 Tracts
Distributed—Appeal Signed by Thirty-one Distinguished Men—Letters from Helen E. Starrett,
Susan E. Wattles, Dr. R. S. Tenney, Lieut.-Governor J. B. Root, Rev. Olympia Brown—The
Campaign closed by ex-Governor Robinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the
Hutchinson Family—Speeches and Songs at the Polls in every Ward in Leavenworth Election Day—
Both Amendments lost—9,070 Votes for Woman Suffrage, 10,843 for Negro Suffrage229

CHAPTER XX.
NEW YORK CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Constitution Amended once in Twenty Years—Mrs. Stanton before the Legislature Claiming

Woman's Right to Vote for Members to the Convention—An Immense Audience in the Capitol—
The Convention Assembled June 4th, 1867. Twenty Thousand Petitions Presented for Striking the
Word "Male" from the Constitution—"Committee on the Right of Suffrage, and the Qualifications for
Holding Office" Horace Greeley, Chairman—Mr. Graves, of Herkimer, Leads the Debate in favor of
Woman Suffrage—Horace Greeley's Adverse Report—Leading Advocates Heard before the
Convention—Speech of George William Curtis on Striking the Word "Man" from Section 1, Article
11—Final Vote, 19 For, 125 Against—Equal Rights Anniversary of 1868269

CHAPTER XXI.
RECONSTRUCTION.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments—Universal Suffrage and Universal Amnesty the Key-

note of Reconstruction—Gerrit Smith and Wendell Phillips hesitate—A Trying Period in the Woman
Suffrage Movement—Those Opposed to the word "Male" in the Fourteenth Amendment Voted
Down in Conventions—The Negro's Hour—Virginia L. Minor on Suffrage in the District of
Columbia—Women Advised to be Silent—The Hypocrisy of the Democrats preferable to that of the
Republicans—Senator Pomeroy's Amendment—Protests against a Man's Government—Negro
Suffrage a Political Necessity—Charles Sumner Opposed to the Fourteenth Amendment, but Voted
for it as a Party Measure—Woman Suffrage for Utah—Discussion in the House as to who Constitute
Electors—Bills for Woman Suffrage presented by the Hon. George W. Julian and Senators Wilson
and Pomeroy—The Fifteenth Amendment—Anna E. Dickinson's Suggestion—Opinions of Women
on the Fifteenth Amendment—The Sixteenth Amendment—Miss Anthony chosen a Delegate to the
Democratic National Convention July 4, 1868—Her Address Read by a Unanimous Vote—Horatio
Seymour in the Chair—Comments of the Press—The Revolution313

CHAPTER XXII.
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS—1869.
First Convention in Washington—First hearing before Congress—Delegates Invited from Every

State—Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas—Debate between Colored Men and Women—Grace
Greenwood's Graphic Description—What the Members of the Convention Saw and Heard in
Washington—Robert Purvis—A Western Trip—Conventions in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis,
Springfield, and Madison—Editorial Correspondence in The Revolution—Anniversaries in New
York and Brooklyn—Conventions in Newport and Saratoga345

CHAPTER XXIII.
THE NEW DEPARTURE—UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
Francis Minor's Resolutions—Hearing before Congressional Committee—Descriptions by Mrs.

Fannie Howland and Grace Greenwood—Washington Convention 1870—Rev. Samuel J. May—
Senator Carpenter—Professor Sprague, of Cornell University—Notes of Mrs. Hooker—May
Anniversary in New York—The Fifth Avenue Conference—Second Decade Celebration—
Washington, 1871—Victoria Woodhull's Memorial—Judiciary Committee—Majority and Minority
Reports—George W. Julian and A. A. Sargent in the House—May Anniversary, 1871—
Washington in 1872—Senate Judiciary Committee—Benjamin F. Butler—The Sherman-Dahlgren
Protest—Women in Grant and Wilson Campaign407

CHAPTER XXIV.
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS—1873, '74, '75.
Fifth Washington Convention—Mrs. Gage on Centralization—May Anniversary in New York—

Washington Convention, 1874—Frances Ellen Burr's Report—Rev. O. B. Frothingham in New
York Convention—Territory of Pembina—Discussion in the Senate—Conventions in Washington
and New York, 1875—Hearings before Congressional Committees521

CHAPTER XXV.

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TRIALS AND DECISIONS.
Women Voting under the XVI. Amendment—Appeals to the Courts—Marilla M. Ricker, of New

Hampshire, 1870—Nannette B. Gardner, Michigan—Sara Andrews Spencer, District of Columbia
—Ellen Rand Van Valkenburgh, California—Catherine V. Waite, Illinois—Carrie S. Burnham,
Pennsylvania—Sarah M. T. Huntingdon, Connecticut—Susan B. Anthony, New York—Virginia L.
Minor, Missouri—Judges McKee, Jameson, Sharswood, Cartter—Associate Justice Hunt—Chief
Justice Waite—Myra Bradwell—Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter—Supreme Court Decisions586

CHAPTER XXVI.
AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
Circular Letter—Cleveland Convention—Association Completed—Henry Ward Beecher,

President—Convention in Steinway Hall, New York—George William Curtis Speaks—The First
Annual Meeting held in Cleveland—Mrs. Tracy Cutler, President—Mass Meeting in Steinway Hall,
New York, 1870—State Action Recommended—Moses Coit Tyler Speaks—Mass Meetings in
1871 in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh—Memorial to Congress—Letters from
William Lloyd Garrison and others—Hon. G. F. Hoar Advocates Woman Suffrage—Anniversary
celebrated at St. Louis—Dr. Stone, of Michigan—Thomas Wentworth Higginson, President, 1872
—Convention in Cooper Institute, New York—Two Hundred Young Women march in—Meeting in
Plymouth Church—Letters from Louise May Alcott and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps—The Annual
Meeting in Detroit—Julia Ward Howe, President—Letter from James T. Field—Mary F. Eastman
Addresses the Convention. Bishop Gilbert Haven President for 1875—Convention in Steinway Hall,
New York—Hon. Charles Bradlaugh Speaks—Centennial Celebration, July 3d—Petition to
Congress for a XVI. Amendment—Conventions in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Washington, and
Louisville756

Appendix.

LIST OF ENGRAVINGS

Anna E. Dickinson
Frontispiece.

Clara Barton
page 25

Clemence S. Lozier, M. D.
153

Rev. Olympia Brown
265

Jane Graham Jones
313

Virginia L. Minor
409

Isabella Beecher Hooker
489

Belva A. Lockwood
521

Ellen Clark Sargent
553

Myra Bradwell
617

Lucy Stone
761

Julia Ward Howe
793

HISTORY OF WOMAN

SUFFRAGE

Volume Three of Four Volumes

Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,

Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn

Gage

Illustrated With Steel Engravings

1876-1885.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XXVII.page
THE CENTENNIAL YEAR—1876.
The Dawn of the New Century—Washington Convention—Congressional Hearing—Woman's

Protest—May
Anniversary—Centennial Parlors in Philadelphia—Letters and Delegates to

Presidential Conventions—50,000 Documents sent out—The Centennial Autograph Book—The
Fourth of July—Independence Square—Susan B. Anthony reads the Declaration of Rights—
Convention in Dr. Furness' Church, Lucretia Mott, Presiding—The Hutchinson Family, John and Asa
—The Twenty-eighth Anniversary, July 19, Edward M. Davis, Presiding—Letters, Ernestine L.
Rose, Clarina I. H. Nichols—The Ballot-Box—Retrospect—The Woman's Pavilion1

CHAPTER XXVIII.
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, HEARINGS AND REPORTS.
1877-1878-1879.
Renewed Appeal for a Sixteenth Amendment—Mrs. Gage Petitions for a Removal of Political

Disabilities—Ninth Washington Convention, 1877—Jane Grey Swisshelm—Letters, Robert Purvis,
Wendell Phillips, Francis E. Abbott—10,000 Petitions Referred to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections by Special Request of the Chairman, Hon. O. P. Morton, of Indiana—May Anniversary in
New York—Tenth Washington Convention, 1878—Frances E. Willard and 30,000 Temperance
Women Petition Congress—40,000 Petition for a Sixteenth Amendment—Hearing before the
Committee on Privileges and Elections—Madam Dahlgren's Protest—Mrs. Hooker's Hearing on
Washington's Birthday—Mary Clemmer's Letter to Senator Wadleigh—His Adverse Report—
Thirtieth Anniversary, Unitarian Church, Rochester, N. Y., July 19, 1878—The Last Convention
Attended by Lucretia Mott—Letters, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips—Church Resolution
Criticised by Rev. Dr. Strong—International Women's Congress in Paris—Washington Convention,
1879—Favorable Minority Report by Senator Hoar—U. S. Supreme Court Opened to Women—
May Anniversary at St. Louis—Address of Welcome by Phoebe Couzins—Women in Council
Alone—Letter from Josephine Butler, of England—Mrs. Stanton's Letter to The National Citizen
and Ballot-Box57

CHAPTER XXIX.
CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS AND CONVENTIONS.
1880-1881.
Why we Hold Conventions in Washington—Lincoln Hall Demonstration—Sixty-six Thousand

Appeals—Petitions Presented in Congress—Hon. T. W. Ferry of Michigan in the Senate—Hon.
Geo. B. Loring of Massachusetts in the House—Hon. J. J. Davis of North Carolina Objected—
Twelfth Washington Convention—Hearings before the Judiciary Committee of both Houses, 1880—
May Anniversary at Indianapolis—Series of Western Conventions—Presidential Nominating
Conventions—Delegates and Addresses to each—Mass-Meeting at Chicago—Washington
Convention, 1881—Memorial Service to Lucretia Mott—Mrs. Stanton's Eulogy—Discussion in the
Senate on a Standing Committee—Senator McDonald of Indiana Champions the Measure—May
Anniversary in Boston—Conventions in the chief cities of New England150

CHAPTER XXX.
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES AND CONVENTIONS.
1882-1883.
Prolonged Discussions in the Senate on a Special Committee to Look After the Rights of Women,

Messrs. Bayard, Morgan and Vest in Opposition—Mr. Hoar Champions the Measure in the Senate,
Mr. Reed in the House—Washington Convention—Representative Orth and Senator Saunders on
the Woman Suffrage Platform—Hearings Before Select Committees of Senate and House—
Reception Given by Mrs. Spofford at the Riggs House—Philadelphia Convention—Mrs. Hannah
Whitehall Smith's Dinner—Congratulations from the Central Committee of Great Britain—Majority
and Minority Reports in the Senate—E. G. Lapham, J. Z. George—Nebraska Campaign—
Conventions in Omaha—Joint Resolution Introduced by Hon. John D. White of Kentucky, Referred
to the Select Committee—Washington Convention, January 24, 25, 26, 1883—Majority Report in
the House.198

CHAPTER XXXI.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The Woman's Hour—Lydia Maria Child Petitions Congress—First New England Convention—

The New England, American and Massachusetts Associations—Woman's Journal—Bishop Gilbert
Haven—The
Centennial
Tea-Party—County Societies—Concord
Convention—Thirtieth

Anniversary of the Worcester Convention—School Suffrage Association—Legislative Hearing—
First Petitions—The Remonstrants Appear—Women in Politics—Campaign of 1872—Great

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Meeting in Tremont Temple—Women at the Polls—Provisions of Former State Constitutions—
Petitions, 1853—School-Committee Suffrage, 1879,—Women Threatened with Arrest—Changes in
the Laws—Woman Now Owns her own Clothing—Harvard Annex—Woman in the Professions—
Samuel E. Sewall and William I. Bowditch—Supreme-Court Decisions—Sarah E. Wall—Francis
Jackson—Julia Ward Howe—Mary E. Stevens—Lucia M. Peabody—Lelia Josephine Robinson—
Eliza (Jackson) Eddy's Will 256

CHAPTER XXXII.
CONNECTICUT.
Prudence Crandall—Eloquent Reformers—Petitions for Suffrage—The Committee's Report—

Frances Ellen Burr—Isabella Beecher Hooker's Reminiscences—Anna Dickinson in the Republican
Campaign—State Society Formed October 28, 29, 1869—Enthusiastic Convention in Hartford—
Governor Marshall Jewell—He recommends More Liberal Laws for Women—Society Formed in
New Haven, 1871—Governor Hubbard's Inaugural, 1877—Samuel Bowles of the Springfield
Republican—Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, Chaplain, 1870—John Hooker, Esq., Champions the
Suffrage Movement—The Smith Sisters—Mary Hall—Chief-Justice Park—Frances Ellen Burr—
Hartford Equal Rights Club316

CHAPTER XXXIII.
RHODE ISLAND.
Senator Anthony in North American Review—Convention in Providence—State Association

organized, Paulina Wright Davis, President—Report of Elizabeth B. Chase—Women on School
Boards—Women's Board of Visitors to the Penal and Correctional Institutions—Dr. Wm. F.
Channing—Miss Ida Lewis—Letter of Frederick A. Hinckley—Last Words of Senator Anthony339

CHAPTER XXXIV.
MAINE.
Women on School Committees—Elvira C. Thorndyke—First Suffrage Society organized, 1868,

Rockland—Portland Meeting, 1870—John Neal—Judge Goddard—Colby University Open to
Girls, August 12, 1871—Mrs. Clara Hapgood Nash Admitted to the Bar, October 26, 1872—Tax-
Payers Protest—Ann F. Greeley, 1872—March, 1872, Bill for Woman Suffrage Lost in the House,
Passed in the Senate by Seven Votes—Miss Frank Charles, Register of Deeds—Judge Reddington
—Mr. Randall's Motion—Moral Eminence of Maine—Convention in Granite Hall, Augusta, January,
1873, Hon. Joshua Nye, President—Delia A. Curtis—Opinions of the Supreme Court in Regard to
Women Holding Offices—Governor Dingley's Message, 1875—Convention, Representatives Hall,
Portland, Judge Kingsbury, President, Feb. 12, '76—The two Snow Families—Hon. T. B. Reed351

CHAPTER XXXV.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Nathaniel P. Rogers—Parker Pillsbury—Galen Foster—The Hutchinson Family—First Organized

Action, 1868—Concord Convention—William Lloyd Garrison's Letter—Rev. S. L. Blake Opposed
—Rev. Mr. Sanborn in Favor—Concord Monitor—Armenia S. White—A Bill to Protect the
Rights of Married Men—Minority and Majority Reports—Women too Ignorant to Vote—
Republican State Convention—Women on School Committees, 1870—Voting at School District
Meetings, 1878—Mrs. White's Address—Mrs. Ricker on Prison Reform—Judicial Decision in
Regard to Married Women, 1882—Letter from Senator Blair367

CHAPTER XXXVI.
VERMONT.
Clarina Howard Nichols—Council of Censors—Amending the Constitution—St. Andrew's Letter

—Mr. Reed's Report—Convention Called—H. B. Blackwell on the Vermont Watchman—Mary
A. Livermore in the Woman's Journal—Sarah A. Gibbs' Reply to Rev. Mr. Holmes—School
Suffrage, 1880383

CHAPTER XXXVII.
NEW YORK—1860-1885.
Saratoga Convention, July 13, 14, 1869—State Society Formed, Martha C. Wright, President

—The Revolution Established, 1868—Educational Movement—New York City Society, 1870,
Charlotte B. Wilbour, President—Presidential Campaign, 1872—Hearings at Albany, 1873—
Constitutional Commission—An Effort to Open Columbia College, President Barnard in Favor—
Centennial Celebration, 1876—School Officers—Senator Emerson of Monroe, 1877—Governor
Robinson's Veto—School Suffrage, 1880—Governor Cornell Recommended it in his Message—
Stewart's Home for Working Women—Women as Police—An Act to Prohibit Disfranchisement—
Attorney-General Russell's Adverse Opinion—The Power of the Legislature to Extend Suffrage—
Great Demonstration in Chickering Hall, March 7, 1884—Hearing at Albany, 1885—Mrs. Blake,
Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Howell, Gov. Hoyt of Wyoming395

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

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PENNSYLVANIA.
Carrie Burnham—The Canon and Civil Law the Source of Woman's Degradation—Women Sold

with Cattle in 1768—Women Arrested in Pittsburg—Mrs. McManus—Opposition to Women in
Colleges and Hospitals; John W. Forney Vindicates their Rights—Ann Preston—Women in
Dentistry—James Truman's Letter—Swarthmore College—Suffrage Association Formed in 1866, in
Philadelphia—John K. Wildman's Letter—Judge William S. Pierce—The Citizens' Suffrage
Association, 333 Walnut Street, Edward M. Davis, President—Petitions to the Legislature—
Constitutional Convention, 1873—Bishop Simpson, Mary Grew, Sarah C. Hallowell, Matilda
Hindman, Mrs. Stanton, Address the Convention—Messrs. Broomall and Campbell Debate with the
Opposition—Amendment Making Women Eligible to School Offices—Two Women Elected to
Philadelphia School Board, 1874—The Wages of Married Women Protected—J. Edgar Thomson's
Will—Literary Women as Editors—The Rev. Knox Little—Anne E. McDowell—Women as
Physicians in Insane Asylums—The Fourteenth Amendment Resolution, 1881—Ex-Gov. Hoyt's
Lecture on Wyoming444

CHAPTER XXXIX.
NEW JERSEY.
Women Voted in the Early Days—Deprived of the Right by Legislative Enactment in 1807—

Women Demand the Restoration of Their Rights in 1868—At the Polls in Vineland and Roseville
Park—Lucy Stone Agitates the Question—State Suffrage Society Organized in 1867—Conventions
—A Memorial to the Legislature—Mary F. Davis—Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford—Political Science
Club— Mrs. Cornelia C. Hussey—Orange Club, 1870—Mrs. Devereux Blake gives the Oration,
July 4, 1884—Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's Letter—The Laws of New Jersey in Regard to Property
and Divorce—Constitutional Commission, 1873—Trial of Rev. Isaac M. See—Women Preaching in
his Pulpit—The Case Appealed—Mrs. Jones, Jailoress—Legislative Hearings476

CHAPTER XL.
OHIO.
The First Soldiers' Aid Society—Mrs. Mendenhall—Cincinnati Equal Rights Association, 1868—

Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital—Hon. J. M. Ashley—State Society, 1869—Murat
Halstead's Letter—Dayton Convention, 1870—Women Protest Against Enfranchisement—Sarah
Knowles Bolton—Statistics on Coëducation by Thomas Wentworth Higginson—Woman's Crusade,
1874—Miriam M. Cole—Ladies' Health Association—Professor Curtis—Hospital for Women and
Children, 1879—Letter from J. D. Buck, M. D.—March, 1881, Degrees Conferred on Women—
Toledo Association, 1869—Sarah Langdon Williams—The Sunday Journal—The Ballot-Box—
Constitutional Convention—Judge Waite—Amendment Making Women Eligible to Office—Mr.
Voris, Chairman Special Committee on Woman Suffrage—State Convention, 1873—Rev. Robert
McCune—Centennial Celebration—Women Decline to Take Part—Correspondence—Newbury
Association—Women Voting, 1871—Sophia Ober Allen—Annual Meeting, Painesville, 1885—
State Society, Mrs. Frances M. Casement, President—Adelbert College 491

CHAPTER XLI.
MICHIGAN.
Women's Literary Clubs and Libraries—Mrs. Lucinda H. Stone—Classes of Girls in Europe—

Ernestine L. Rose—Legislative Action, 1849-1885—State Woman Suffrage Society, 1870—Annual
Conventions—Northwestern Association—Wendell Phillips' Letter—Nannette Gardner votes—
Catharine A. F. Stebbins Refused—Legislative Action—Amendments Submitted—An Active
Canvas of the State by Women—Election Day—The Amendment Lost, 40,000 Men Voted in
Favor—University at Ann Arbor Opened to Girls, 1869—Kalamazoo Institute—J. A. B. Stone—
Miss Madeline Stockwell and Miss Sarah Burger Applied for Admission to the University in 1857—
Episcopal Church Bill—Local Societies—Quincy—Lansing—St. Johns—Manistee—Grand Rapids
—Sojourner Truth—Laura C. Haviland—Sybil Lawrence513

CHAPTER XLII.
INDIANA.
The First Woman Suffrage Convention After the War, 1869—Amanda M. Way—Annual

Meetings, 1870-85, in the Larger Cities—Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, 1878—A Course of
Lectures—In May, 1880, National Convention in Indianapolis—Zerelda G. Wallace—Social
Entertainment—Governor Albert G. Porter—Susan B. Anthony's Birthday—Schuyler Colfax—
Legislative Hearings—Temperance Women of Indiana—Helen M. Gougar—General Assembly—
Delegates to Political Conventions—Women Address Political Meetings—Important Changes in the
Laws for Women, from 1860 to 1884—Colleges Open to Women—Demia Butler—Professors—
Lawyers—Doctors—Ministers—Miss Catharine Merrill—Miss Elizabeth Eaglesfield—Rev.
Prudence Le Clerc—Dr. Mary F. Thomas—Prominent Men and Women—George W. Julian—The
Journals—Gertrude Garrison533

CHAPTER XLIII.

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ILLINOIS.
Chicago a Great Commercial Centre—First Woman Suffrage Agitation, 1855—A. J. Grover—

Society at Earlville—Prudence Crandall—Sanitary Movement—Woman in Journalism—Myra
Bradwell—Excitement in Elmwood Church, 1868—Mrs. Huldah Joy—Pulpit Utterances—
Convention, 1869, Library Hall, Chicago—Anna Dickinson, Robert Laird Collier Debate—
Manhood Suffrage Denounced by Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony—Judge Charles B. Waite on the
Constitutional Convention—Hearing before the Legislature—Western Suffrage Convention, Mrs.
Livermore, President—Annual Meeting at Bloomington—Women Eligible to School Offices—
Evanston College—Miss Alta Hulett Medical Association—Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson
—"Woman's Kingdom" in the Inter-Ocean—Mrs. Harbert—Centennial Celebration at Evanston—
Temperance Petition, 180,000—Frances E. Willard—Social Science Association—Art Union—
Jane Graham Jones at International Congress in Paris—Moline Association559

CHAPTER XLIV.
MISSOURI.
Missouri the first State to Open Colleges of Law and Medicine to Woman—Liberal Legislation—

Harriet Hosmer—Wayman Crow—Dr. Joseph N. McDowell—Works of Art—Women in the War
—Adeline Couzins—Virginia L. Minor—Petitions—Woman Suffrage Association, May 8, 1867—
First Woman Suffrage Convention, Oct. 6, 1869—Able Resolutions by Francis Minor—Action
Asked for in the Methodist Church—Constitutional Convention—Mrs. Hazard's Report—National
Suffrage Association, 1879—Virginia L. Minor Before the Committee on Constitutional
Amendments—Mrs. Minor Tries to Vote—Her Case in the Supreme Court—Mrs. Annie R. Irvine
—"Oregon Woman's Union"—Miss Phœbe Couzins Graduates From the Law School, 1871—
Reception by Members of the Bar—Speeches—Dr. Walker—Judge Krum—Hon. Albert Todd—
Ex-Governor E. O. Stanard—Ex-Senator Henderson—Judge Reber—George M. Stewart—Mrs.
Minor—Miss Couzins594

CHAPTER XLV.
IOWA.
Beautiful Scenery—Liberal in Politics and Reforms—Legislation for Women—No Right yet to

Joint Earnings—Early Agitation—Frances Dana Gage, 1854—Mrs. Amelia Bloomer Lectures in
Council Bluffs, 1856—Mrs. Martha H. Brinkerhoff—Mrs. Annie Savery, 1868—County
Associations Formed in 1869—State Society Organized at Mt. Pleasant, 1870, Henry O'Connor,
President—Mrs. Cutler Answers Judge Palmer—First Annual Meeting, Des Moines—Letter from
Bishop Simpson—The State Register Complimentary—Mass-Meeting at the Capitol—Mrs. Savery
and Mrs. Harbert—Legislative Action—Methodist and Universalist Churches Indorse Woman
Suffrage—Republican Plank, 1874—Governor Carpenter's Message, 1876—Annual Meeting,
1882, Many Clergymen Present—Five Hundred Editors Interviewed—Miss Hindman and Mrs.
Campbell—Mrs. Callanan Interviews Governor Sherman, 1884—Lawyers—Governor Kirkwood
Appoints Women to Office—County Superintendents—Elizabeth S. Cook—Journalism—Literature
— Medicine—Ministry—Inventions—President of a National Bank— The Heroic Kate Shelly—
Temperance—Improvement in the Laws612

CHAPTER XLVI.
WISCONSIN.
Progressive Legislation—The Rights of Married Women—The Constitution Shows Four Classes

Having the Right to Vote—Woman Suffrage Agitation—C. L. Sholes' Minority Report, 1856—
Judge David Noggle and J. T. Mills' Minority Report, 1859—State Association Formed, 1869—
Milwaukee
Convention—Dr. Laura Ross—Hearing Before the Legislature—Convention in

Janesville, 1870—State University—Elizabeth R. Wentworth—Suffrage Amendment, 1880, '81, '82
—Rev. Olympia Brown, Racine, 1877—Madam Anneké—Judge Ryan—Three Days' Convention
at Racine, 1883—Eveleen L. Mason—Dr. Sarah Munro—Rev. Dr. Corwin—Lavinia Godell,
Lawyer—Angie King—Kate Kane638

CHAPTER XLVII.
MINNESOTA.
Girls in State University—Sarah Burger Stearns—Harriet E. Bishop, the First Teacher in St. Paul

—Mary J. Colburn Won the Prize—Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, St. Cloud—Fourth of July Oration,
1866—First Legislative Hearing, 1867—Governor Austin's Veto—First Society at Rochester—
Kasson—Almira W. Anthony—Mary P. Wheeler—Harriet M. White—The W. C. T. U.—Harriet
A. Hobart—Literary and Art Clubs—School Suffrage, 1876—Charlotte O. Van Cleve and Mrs. C.
S . Winchell Elected to School Board—Mrs. Governor Pillsbury—Temperance Vote, 1877—
Property Rights of Married Women—Women as Officers, Teachers, Editors, Ministers, Doctors,
Lawyers649

CHAPTER XLVIII.
DAKOTA.

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Influences of Climate and Scenery—Legislative Action, 1872—Mrs. Marietta Bones—In

February, 1879, School Suffrage Granted Women—Constitutional Convention, 1883—Matilda
Joslyn Gage Addressed a Letter to the Convention and an Appeal to the Women of the State—Mrs.
Bones Addressed the Convention in Person—The Effort to get the Word "Male" out of the
Constitution Failed—Legislature of 1885—Major Pickler Presents the Bill—Carried Through Both
Houses—Governor Pierce's Veto—Major Pickler's Letter662

CHAPTER XLIX.
NEBRASKA.
Clara Bewick Colby—Nebraska Came into the Possession of the United States, 1803—The

Home of the Dakotas—Organized as a Territory, 1854—Territorial Legislature—Mrs. Amelia
Bloomer Addresses the House—Gen. Wm. Larimer, 1856—A Bill to Confer Suffrage on Women—
Passed the House—Lost in the Senate—Constitution Harmonized with the Fourteenth Amendment
—Admitted as a State March 1, 1867—Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony Lecture in the State, 1867—
Mrs. Tracy Cutler, 1870—Mrs. Esther L. Warner's Letter—Constitutional Convention, 1871—
Woman Suffrage Amendment Submitted—Lost by 12,676 against, 3,502 for—Prolonged
Discussion—Constitutional Convention, 1875—Grasshoppers Devastate the Country—Inter-
Ocean, Mrs. Harbert—Omaha Republican, 1876—Woman's Column Edited by Mrs. Harriet S.
Brooks—"Woman's Kingdom"—State Society Formed, January 19, 1881, Mrs. Brooks President
—Mrs. Dinsmoor, Mrs. Colby, Mrs. Brooks, before the Legislature—Amendment again Submitted
—Active Canvass of the State, 1882—First Convention of the State Association—Charles F.
Manderson—Unreliable Politicians—An Unfair Count of Votes for Woman Suffrage—Amendment
Defeated—Conventions in Omaha—Notable Women in the State—Conventions—Woman's
Tribune Established in 1883 670

CHAPTER L.
KANSAS.
Effect of the Popular Vote on Woman Suffrage—Anna C. Wait—Hannah Wilson—Miss Kate

Stephens, Professor of Greek in State University—Lincoln Centre Society, 1879—The Press—The
Lincoln Beacon—Election, 1880—Sarah A. Brown, Democratic Candidate—Fourth of July
Celebration—Women Voting on the School Question—State Society, 1884—Helen M. Gougar—
Clara Bewick Colby—Bertha H. Ellsworth—Radical Reform Association—Mrs. A. G. Lord—
Prudence Crandall—Clarina Howard Nichols—Laws—Women in the Professions—Schools—
Political Parties—Petitions to the Legislature—Col. F. G. Adams' Letter696

CHAPTER LI.
COLORADO.
Great American Desert—Organized as a Territory, February 28, 1860—Gov. McCook's

Message Recommending Woman Suffrage, 1870—Adverse Legislation—Hon. Amos Steck—
Admitted to the Union, 1876—Constitutional Convention—Efforts to Strike Out the Word "Male"—
Convention to Discuss Woman Suffrage—School Suffrage Accorded—State Association Formed,
Alida C. Avery, President—Proposition for Full Suffrage Submitted to the Popular Vote—A
Vigorous Campaign—Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Patterson of Denver—Opposition by the Clergy—
Their Arguments Ably Answered—D. M. Richards—The Amendment Lost—The Rocky Mountain
News712

CHAPTER LII.
WYOMING.
The Dawn of the New Day, December, 1869—The Goal Reached in England and America—

Territory Organized, May, 1869—Legislative Action—Bill for Woman Suffrage—William H. Bright
—Gov. Campbell Signs the Bill—Appoints Esther Morris, Justice of the Peace, March, 1870—
Women on the Jury, Chief-Justice Howe, Presiding—J. W. Kingman, Associate-Justice, Addresses
the Jury—Women Promptly Take Their Places—Sunday Laws Enforced—Comments of the Press
—Judge Howe's Letter—Laramie Sentinel—J. H. Hayford—Women Voting, 1870—Grandma
Swain the First to Cast her Ballot—Effort to Repeal the Law, 1871—Gov. Campbell's Veto—Mr.
Corlett—Rapid Growth of Public Opinion in Favor of Woman Suffrage726

CHAPTER LIII.
CALIFORNIA.
Liberal Provisions in the Constitution—Elizabeth T. Schenck—Eliza W. Farnham—Mrs. Mills'

Seminary, now a State Institution—Jeannie Carr, State Superintendent of Schools—First Awakening
—The Revolution—Anna Dickinson—Mrs. Gordon Addresses the Legislature, 1868—Mrs. Pitts
Stevens Edits The Pioneer—First Suffrage Society on the Pacific Coast, 1869—State Convention,
January 26, 1870, Mrs. Wallis, President—State Association Formed, Mrs. Haskell of Petaluma,
President—Mrs. Gordon Nominated for Senator—In 1871, Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony Visit
California—Hon. A. A. Sargent Speaks in Favor of Suffrage for Women—Ellen Clark Sargent
Active in the Movement—Legislation Making Women Eligible to Hold School Offices, 1873—July

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10, 1873, State Society Incorporated, Sarah Wallis, President—Mrs. Clara Foltz—A Bill Giving
Women the Right to Practice Law—The Bill Passed and Signed by the Governor—Contest Over
Admitting Women into the Law Department of the University—Supreme Court Decision Favorable
—Hon. A. A. Sargent on the Constitution and Laws—Journalists and Printers Silk Culture—
Legislative Appropriation—Mrs. Knox Goodrich Celebrates July 4, 1876—Imposing Demonstration
—Ladies in the Procession749

CHAPTER LIV.
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
The Long Marches Westward—Abigail Scott Duniway—Mary Olney Brown—The First Steps in

Oregon—Col. C. A. Reed—Judge G. W. Lawson—1870—The New Northwest, 1871—
Campaign, Mrs. Duniway and Miss Anthony—They Address the Legislature in Washington Territory
—Hon. Elwood Evans—Suffrage Societies Organized at Olympia and Portland—Before the Oregon
Legislature—Donation Land Act—Hon. Samuel Corwin's Suffrage Bill—Married Woman's Sole
Traders' Bill—Temperance Alliance—Women Rejected—Major Williams Fights Their Battles and
Triumphs—Mrs. H. A. Loughary—Progressive Legislation, 1874—Mob-Law in Jacksonville, 1879
—Dr. Mary A. Thompson—Constitutional Convention, 1878—Woman Suffrage Bill, 1880—Hon.
W. C. Fulton—Women Enfranchised in Washington Territory, Nov. 15, 1883—Great Rejoicing,
Bonfires, Ratification Meetings—Constitutional Amendment Submitted in Oregon and Lost, June,
1884—Suffrage by Legislative Enactment Lost—Fourth of July Celebrated at Vancouvers—
Benjamin and Mary Olney Brown—Washington Territory—Legislation in 1867-68 Favorable to
Women—Mrs. Brown Attempts to Vote and is Refused—Charlotte Olney French—Women Vote
at Grand Mound and Black River Precincts, 1870—Retrogressive Legislation, 1871—Abby H.
Stuart in Land-Office—Hon. William H. White—Idaho and Montana767

CHAPTER LV.
LOUISIANA—TEXAS—ARKANSAS—MISSISSIPPI.
St. Anna's Asylum, Managed by Women—Constitutional Convention, 1879—Women Petition—

Clara Merrick Guthrie—Petition Referred to Committee on Suffrage—A Hearing Granted—Mrs.
Keating—Mrs. Saxon—Mrs. Merrick—Col. John M. Sandige—Efforts of the Women all in Vain—
Action in 1885—Gov. McEnery—The Daily Picayune—Women as Members of the School Board
—Physiology in the Schools—Miss Eliza Rudolph—Mrs. E. J. Nicholson—Judge Merrick's Digest
of Laws—Texas—Arkansas—Mississippi—Sarah A. Dorsey789

CHAPTER LV. (Continued).
DISTRICT
OF
COLUMBIA—MARYLAND—DELAWARE—KENTUCKY—

TENNESSEE—VIRGINIA—WEST
VIRGINIA—NORTH
CAROLINA—SOUTH

CAROLINA—FLORIDA—ALABAMA—GEORGIA.

Secretary Chase—Women in the Government Departments—Myrtilla Miner—Mrs. O'Connor's

Tribute—District of Columbia Suffrage Bill—The Universal Franchise Association, 1867—Bill for a
Prohibitory Law Presented by Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, 1869—A Bill for Equal Wages for the Women
in the Departments, Introduced by Hon. S. M. Arnell, 1870—In 1871 Congress Passed the Organic
Act for the District Confining the Right of Suffrage to Males—In 1875 it Withdrew all Legislative
Power from the People—Women in Law, Medicine, Journalism and the Charities—Dental College
Opened to Women—Mary A. Stewart—The Clay Sisters—The School of Pharmacy—Elizabeth
Avery Meriwether—Judge Underwood—Mary Bayard Clarke—Dr. Susan Dimock—Governor
Chamberlain—Coffee-Growing—Priscilla Holmes Drake—Alexander H. Stephens808

CHAPTER LV. (Concluded).
CANADA.
Miss Phelps of St. Catharines—The Revolt of the Thirteen Colonies—First Parliament—Property

Rights of Married Women—School Suffrage Thirty Years—Municipal Suffrage, 1882, 1884—
Women Voting in Toronto, 1886—Mrs. Curzon—Dr. Emily H. Stone—Woman's Literary Club of
Toronto—Nova Scotia—New Brunswick—Miss Harriet Stewart831

CHAPTER LVI.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Women Send Members to Parliament—Sidney Smith, Sir Robert Peel, Richard Cobden—The

Ladies of Oldham—Jeremy Bentham—Anne Knight—Northern Reform Society, 1858—Mrs.
Matilda Biggs—Unmarried Women and Widows Petition Parliament—Associations Formed in
London, Manchester, Edinburgh, 1867—John Stuart Mill in Parliament—Seventy-three Votes for his
Bill—John Bright's Vote—Women Register and Vote—Lord-Chief-Justice of England Declares their
Constitutional Right—The Courts Give Adverse Decisions—Jacob Bright Secures the Municipal
Franchise—First Public Meeting—Division on Jacob Bright's Bill to Remove Political Disabilities—
Mr. Gladstone's Speech—Work of 1871-72—Fourth Vote on the Suffrage Bill—Jacob Bright Fails
of Reëlection—Efforts of Mr. Forsyth—Memorial of the National Society—Some Account of the
Workers—Vote of the New Parliament, 1875—Organized Opposition—Diminished Adverse Vote

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of 1878—Mr. Courtney's Resolution—Letters—Great Demonstrations at Manchester—London—
Bristol —Nottingham—Birmingham—Sheffield—Glasgow—Victory in the Isle of Man—Passage of
the Municipal Franchise Bill for Scotland—Mr. Mason's Resolution—Reduction of Adverse
Majority to 16—Liberal Conference at Leeds—Mr. Woodall's Amendment to Reform Bill of 1884
—Meeting at Edinburgh—Other Meetings—Estimated Number of Women Householders—
Circulars to Members of Parliament—Debate on the Amendment—Resolutions of the Society—
Further Debate—Defeat of the Amendment—Meeting at St. James Hall—Conclusion833

CHAPTER LVII.
CONTINENTAL EUROPE.
The Woman Question in the Back-ground—In France the Agitation Dates from the Upheaval of

1789;—International Women's Rights Convention in Paris, 1878—Mlle. Hubertine Auclert Leads
the Demand for Suffrage—Agitation Began in Italy with the Kingdom—Concepcion Arenal in Spain
—Coëducation in Portugal—Germany: Leipsic and Berlin—Austria in Advance of Germany Caroline
Svetlá of Bohemia—Austria Unsurpassed in Contradictions—Marriage Emancipates from Tutelage
in Hungary—Dr. Henrietta Jacobs of Holland—Dr. Isala Van Diest of Belgium—In Switzerland the
Catholic Cantons Lag Behind—Marie Gœgg, the Leader—Sweden Stands First—Universities Open
to Women in Norway—Associations in Denmark—Liberality of Russia toward Women—Poland—
The Orient—Turkey—Jewish Wives—The Greek Woman in Turkey—The Greek Woman in
Greece—An Unique Episode—Woman's Rights in the American Sense not Known895

CHAPTER LVIII.
REMINISCENCES.

BY E. C. S.922

Appendix

INDEX

LIST OF ENGRAVINGS

Phœbe W. Couzins
Frontispiece.

Marilla M. Ricker
page 112

Frances E. Willard
129

Jane H. Spofford
192

Harriet H. Robinson
273

Phebe A. Hanaford
337

Armenia S. White
369

Lillie Devereux Blake
417

Rachel G. Foster
465

Cornelia C. Hussey
481

May Wright Sewall
545

Elizabeth Boynton Harbert 592

Sarah Burger Stearns
656

Clara Bewick Colby
689

Helen M. Gougar
704

Laura DeForce Gordon
753

Abigail Scott Duniway
769

Caroline E. Merrick
801

Mary B. Clay
817

Mentia Taylor
833

Priscilla Bright McLaren
864

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George Sand
896

HISTORY OF WOMAN

SUFFRAGE

Volume Four of Four Volumes

Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,

Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn

Gage

Illustrated With Steel Engravings

1883-1900

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.
Review of the Situationxiii-xxxiii

Pioneers break the ground — All their demands now practically conceded except the Franchise —
Why is this still refused? — All other rights depend on Statute Law, suffrage on change of
Constitution — No other nation thus fettered — Further almost insurmountable obstacles —
Experience in many States — Either dominant party would enfranchise women if it were sure of their
votes — Liquor interests and political "machines" allied in opposition — They control the situation —
Figures of votes on Amendments — Majority of people born opponents of all innovations —
Character of electorate on which women must depend — Indifference of women themselves —
Reaction against a democratic government — Facts showing steady progress of Woman Suffrage —
All signs favorable — Women in education and business — Old objections dying out — Personal
character of advocates — Persecution not obsolete but the enfranchisement of women inevitable.

CHAPTER I.
Woman's Constitutional Right to Vote1-13

Early State constitutions provided against Woman Suffrage — First demand for it — Women after
the Civil War — "Male" first used in National Constitution — Fourteenth Amendment — Endeavor
to make it include women — They attempt to vote — Susan B. Anthony's trial — Case of Virginia
L. Minor — Supreme Court decisions — Suffrage as a right — Arguments for the Federal Franchise
— National Association decides to try only for new Amendment — Hearings before Congressional
Committees — Reports of these committees — Debate in Congress.

CHAPTER II.
The National Suffrage Convention of 188414-30

Forming of National Association in 1869 — Washington selected for annual conventions — Call for
that of '84 — Extracts from speeches on Kentucky Laws for Women — Woman before the Law —
Outrage of Disfranchisement — Ethics of Woman Suffrage — England vs. the United States —
Bishop Matthew Simpson in Favor of Woman's...