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Date: 19-Jul
Text: Life Sketch of czgawt can Slcudan by her Granddaughter NORA STANTON BARNEY Civil Engineer and Architect rd‘! Published on the 100th Anniversary of the day that 4 ex.-Quart eat, gfaafoa submitted the first resolution in the world demanding the Elective Franchise for Women Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 19, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, on No- vember l2th, 1815. Her family was wealthy, judged by contempo- rary standards, and she could have lead a life of ease and...
Show moreLife Sketch of czgawt can Slcudan by her Granddaughter NORA STANTON BARNEY Civil Engineer and Architect rd‘! Published on the 100th Anniversary of the day that 4 ex.-Quart eat, gfaafoa submitted the first resolution in the world demanding the Elective Franchise for Women Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 19, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, on No- vember l2th, 1815. Her family was wealthy, judged by contempo- rary standards, and she could have lead a life of ease and luxury, but the seed of divine discontent was A within her. The sad lot of most women penetrated her soul at an early age, and she chose, instead, a life of continual work, hardship and battle. She had to contend with op- position within the family, also. Her determination to speak in public, and her stand for the enfranchisement of her sex caused her father to disin- herit her. Yet she was never hitter , and her dignity, humour, unbounded health and energy carried her through the ocean of ridicule, frus- trations, prejudice and intolerance to the ripe age of 86 years. She was ageless, , and could en- _ thrall my English and French cous- ins and me with stories of her youth as easily as she could move a vast audience with her oratory and logic. Her lectures and writings covered the whole ﬁeld of human progress———— “Motherhood”, “Sex”, “Our Boys”, “Our Girls”, °‘Woman Suffrage”, “Dress Reform ”, “Woman, the Church and the Bible”. She was a diligent Greek scholar and a great student of the Bible. She inveighed against the degraded position accord- ed to women by the orthodox churches of her generation. She was a Unitarian, and a firm believer in the brotherhood of man and the right to political and economic equal- ity of all human beings regardless of color or sex or race. Seneca Falls was her home for 16 years from 1847. The little town seethed with activity from the day she set her foot there, and on July 19 and 20,1848, the long-discussed plans of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to hold a Woman’s Rights Convention were realized. One hundred well-known men and women attended and signed the “Declaration of Sentiments”, but it was Mrs. Stanton who moved the reso- lution that women should be granted the elective franchise, a motion sec- onded by Frederick Douglass. A storm of protest arose, but the motion was carried by a small margin. Over the cries of ridicule and denunciation heaped on the Convention and its sponsors by pulpit and press arose the clarion voice of Wendell Phillips. ————“This is the inauguration of the most momentous reform yet launched upon the world, the first organized protest against the injus- tice that has brooded for ages over the character and destiny of half the human race”————, and Frederick Doug- lass in “Lone Star” and Horace Gree- ley in New York Tribune published the only editorials in praise of the Convention and its objectives. Often reformers of one generation _ become the conservatives of the next. , Thiswas not true of Mrs. Stanton. She wrote a letter which was read at the celebration of the 50th anniver- sary of the 1848 Convention, which ended as follows: “. . . My message today to our coadju- tors is that we have a higher duty than the demand for suffrage. We must now, at the end of fifty years of faithful ser- vice, broaden our platform and consider the next step in progress, to which the signs of the times clearly point,———name- ly, co-operation, a new principle in in- dustrial economics. We see that the right of suffrage avails nothing for the masses in competition with the wealthy classes, and worse still, with each other. “Women all over the country are working earnestly in many fragmentary reforms, each believing that her own, if achieved, would usher in a new day of peace and plenty. With woman suf- frage, temperance, social parity, rigid Sunday laws and physical culture, could any, or all, be successful, we should see changes in the condition of the masses. We need all these reforms and many more to make existence endurable. What is life today to the prisoner in his cell, to the feeble hands that keep time with machinery in all our marts of trade, to those that have no abiding place, no title to one foot of land on this green earth? Such are the fruits of competi- tion. Our next experiment is to be made on the broad principle of co-operation. At the end of fifty years, whose achieve- ments we celebrate here today, let us reason together as to the wisdom of lay- ing some new plank in our platform. “The co-operative idea will remodel codes and constitutions, creeds and cat- echisms, social customs and convention- alism, the curriculum of schools and colleges. It will give a new sense of jus- tice, liberty and equality in all the re- lations of life. Those who have eyes to see recognize the fact that the period for all the fragmentary reforms is ended. “Agitation of the broader questions of philosophical Socialism is now in order. This next step in progress has been fore- shadowed by our own seers and prophets, and is now being agitated by all the thinkers and writers of all civilized coun- tries. “The few have no right to the luxuries of life, while the many are denied its necessities. This motto is the natural out- growth of the one so familiar on our platform and our official paper, ‘Equal Rights for All’. It is impossible to have ‘equal rights for all’ under our present competitive system. ‘All men are born free, with an equal right to life, liberty and happiness’. The natural outgrowth of this sentiment is the vital principles of the Christian religion. ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’. In broad, liberal principles, the suffrage association should be the leader of thought for wom- en, and not narrow its platform, from ‘year to year, to one idea, rejecting all relative ideas as side issues. “Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions!” If she were living today, she would no doubt be a champion of civil rights and just as many unpopular causes as in 1848. She would be de- manding the full emancipation of woman and equality of rights under law, inveighing against intolerance and bigotry, imperialism and monop- oly, and championing the rights of the common man throughout the world. Until 1900, she held, the pre-emi- nent position in the feminist move- ment, not only in her own country but throughout Europe too. During the last years of her life, she was uni- versally known as “The Grand Old Woman of America”. Some of the high lights of her long life were: In 1848, was the principal organ- izer of the ﬁrst Woman’s Rights Con- vention, and moved the woman suf- frage resolution. In 1854, the ﬁrst woman to ad- dress the New York legislature from the speaker’s rostrum. She was president of New York State -Woman Suffrage Society in 1854. She helped form the ﬁrst National organization for woman’s rights—— The National Woman’s Suﬁrage As- sociation, and was its president from its inception almost continuously for 20 years (1869-1890). When later the American Woman Suffrage Association merged with the National Woman’s Suffrage Associa- tion to become the National Ameri- can Woman Suffrage Association, she was elected president. She made the principal address at the great Cooper Union mass meet- ing in 1861, calling on Lincoln to free women as well as the Negro, and enfranchise both. She ran for Congress in New York State in 1866. In 1869, when the family ﬁnances were at a low ebb and the education of the ﬁve younger children in jeop- ardy, she registered with the Lyceum hureau, and toured the country from Maine to Texas on the famous Or- pheum Circuit, earning from $100.00 to $200.00 per lecture. She did not stop this arduous work until Bob, her youngest, was graduated from Cornell University in 1881. She and Packer Pillsbury edited the periodical, “The Revolution,” from 1868 to 1871. She made the principal address when the W7oman Suffrage Amend- ment was ﬁrst introduced in Congress in 1878. She wrote her coworker, Su- san B. Anthony, who was lecturing in the West, an account of it. This amendment was identical with that ﬁnally passed in 1919 as the 19th Amendment (sometimes erroneously named the Susan B. Anthony Amend- ment). s The three ﬁrst volumes of the “His- tory of Woman Suffrage” early edi- tions, bear the legend, “Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda, .1 oslyn, Gage.” She initiated the International A Woman Suffrage Committee in 1882, in England. On her 80th birthday in 1895, there was a huge celebration at the Metropolitan Opera House of New York City, with memorials and pres- ents from every state, anddmany from abroad. In the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, there stands a large goblet presented to her by the Wom- an Suffrage League on which is en- graved, “Defeated Day by Day, but unto Victory Born”. The reforms she advocated and for which she was ridiculed have largely come to pass: Higher education for women; won1an’s political enfranchisement; dress reform; short skirts; the aban- donment of corsets; the abandonment of swaddling clothes and tight ban- dages for babies; the abandonment of seclusion for women during preg- nancy; getting up soon after child- birth, and continuing one’s duties; liberal divorce laws; a single stand- ard of morals; equal guardianship; property rights, etc. But some of her demands of 1848 still remain unaccomplished, as for instance, complete emancipation of women so that they may have equal- ity of rights under the law, and the full protection of the Constitution. And with all this public activity, she bore and reared seven children, ﬁve boys and two girls. There is a letter from an admirer of hers, my grandfather, writing from Washington, January 16, 1857, to my aunt Margaret Livingston Stanton, then ﬁve years old. He said: “Tell your mother that I have seen a throng of handsome ladies, but that I had rather see her than the whole of them :————hut I intend to cut her acquaintance unless she writes me a letter.” My memories of my Queenmother, as all of us grandchildren called her, are of a delightful person to live with and play with. Backgammon, chess and checkers were our almost night- ly amusement. I have memories of men and women, colored and white, of high and low estate, seeking her counsel and advice. The mornings she spent writing endless letters and articles. During those years, 1897 to 1902, she wrote her autobiography, “Eighty Years and More”, and also “The Woman’s Bible” (her delight- ful commentaries on the women characters of the Bible and her inter- pretations) . Indefatigable to the end, the day before she died, she wrote a letter to Theodore Roosevelt urging him to include sponsoring woman sulirage in his inaugural address. A great writer, author, feminist, philosopher, orator and reformer, friend of Phillips, Douglass, Carri- son, Greeley, Whittier, the Brights and McLarens and feminists through- out the world, passed on into history the 26th day of October, 1902. The author lived with her during the last years of her life, at 26 West 61 st Street and 250 West 94th Street, New York City. Additional copies can be obtained by writing Box 436, Greenwich, Conn. Price 25 cents, postage paid.
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Text: “Virtue founded on fear is only vice in a fit of dejection” “Will is the thing in - itself, the inner content, the essence of the world.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Creator: Stanton, Robert Livingston
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Date: 1853
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Date: 1941-01
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Show morev.-an I Mam. \ “-r 2 F \ to ....u;..».u- ..-,-...y.ws~_w.«»....«-ss...;,s. l, _ .A\ ,. w- HUDSON RIVER 15 Cents M ZINE January, 1941 Tidewater City By Craig Thorn, Jr. Early Christmas Celebrations Along The Hudson By Hugh Flick Kingston By F. Gardner Clough River Portraits FISHERMEN STAY HOME By Edward Voorhees izabeth Cady Stanton By Helen Waltermire ur Own Paul Bunyan By Mildred Tyler PLUS SHORT STORIES, DEPARTMENTS AND FIRST INSTALLMENT THE RIVER THAT FLOWS BOTH WAYS By REMSEN DuBOIS BIRD ‘ .- - oz-‘-\<-,, ~.:~4.4y the Hudson Valley was the prin- B ventures, and public fame is im- “The Woman’s Bible” was at last off the press and the critics were in turn caustic, humorous and complimentary. “Wonders never cease, and it may occur that feminine translations will be able to show that Adam was created out of Eve’s ribs.”—-N. Y. Sunday M ercury. “A celebrated divine holds the devil responsible for “The Woman’s Bible.” -—Deu"'7'1er Post “It is likely that Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s new Bible will show clearly that Adam picked the apple himself and that he sometimes saw snakes.” —New Hampshire Mountaineer. The co—authors of this great work had one by one withdrawn as the undertaking was considered too radical to be con- nected with, by either their husbands, ministers or friends. Only Elizabeth Cady Stanton continued her Work, revis- ing chapter after chapter of the Bible, attempting to give women a place of equality in the church as well as in the state. Mrs. Stanton spent many years of her life pointing out the extent to which women were held in subjection by por- tions of the Bible, which in some cases were literally forged. For example, nothing in the original Hebrew Bible says that woman was made from a rib of man. Mrs. Stanton once answered a Bishop who quoted that chapter of Genesis by replying, “I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth century science.” Although she was born at Johnstown, New York, in 1815, ciple stage of her life. Her dauntless courage, sensational ad- mortalized especially in that section of Columbia County Where.her grandfather was one of the two original settlers, and where the Cady homestead in New Concord,township of Canaan, is today one of the show places of the county. A number of the villagers boast of fine scrap books which record her ex- periences as a Women’s Rights pioneer. ‘As a little girl she came to Canaan to visit her grandparents, and as the years passed she con- tinued to keep the friendly ties- of her youth. For twenty-five successive years Mrs. Stanton was on hand for the legislative sessions at Albany. Throughout her life she traveled up and down By HELEN WALTERMIRE the Hudson River‘Valley holding meet- ings, attending conventions, and arousing public opinion for her cause. Sometimes hecklers broke up such meetings. Police protection was often necesary to safe- guard the daring pioneers for Women’s Rights. Life was not simple for Mrs. Stanton and her followers, but successfully they kept the valley alive to the need for suffrage for women and the necessity for new laws to permit equal educational privileges, equal property rights, T and equal marriage and divorce privileges. Included in her crusades was the struggle for the abolition of slavery. - Eighty-two years old, Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in New York City, the outstanding woman of her generation in the opinion of Charles Beards. (“Amer- ica in Midpassage”). While Elizabeth was still a girl in the johnstown Academy, her brother, who had just graduated from Union College, died. Her father looked at her one day and remarked, “Elizabeth, if you were only a boy.” She told her father she wished to go to Union College. Judge Cady explained to her that there was not a college in the country which a woman might enter. This disappoint- ment, as well as her early marriage to Henry Brewster Stanton, an anti-slavery author, orator and journalist, did much to guide her in her decision to devote Elizabeth Cady Stanton andWomen9s Rights her life to the emancipation of women. While on her wedding trip in England she met Lucretia Mott, who signed with her, the first call to a convention to advance the cause of women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton first intro- duced a resolution proposing that women have the right to vote at the famous women’s rights convention in 1848. This caused such a storm of ridicule that her father, Judge Cady, came for his daughter thinking her mind was unbalanced. ‘ Mr. Stanton was an active abolitionist and with Mrs. Stanton worked persist- ently for the election of Mr. Lincoln. Opinion was sharply divided on the questions of slavery and seccession. Wendell Phillips wrote her in 1864, “You answered correctly. I would cut off both my hands before doing anything to aid Abraham Lincoln’s election Justice is more to me than Union.” Later Phillips refused to shake hands with Mrs. Stanton because she had ridi- culed his stand in their publication the “Revolution.” Of this she wrote, “Poor fellow! After "serving up every living man himself he cannot stand my satire in the ‘Revolution.’ Well, seeing that he feels it so, ‘I will give him some more.” ‘The Stantons moved to New York at tl11S.tlm€. ‘One day a mob of Secces- sionists surrounded their home. As one of their sons came in he was attacked by the men and carried down the street. He was able to save his own life only by inviting the whole crowd into a neighborhood saloon and suggesting that they drink to South Carolina. When the Civil War was over, the American women, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, again demanded sufferage, only to be silenced by the very men whom they had been aiding in their fight against slavery. The men gave as their excuse that, “This is the N egroe’s hour.” Horace Greeley was a lifelong opponent of women’s sufferage. As editor of the T ribuue he was able to influence the public pro- foundly at this time. In 1867, Mrs. Stanton had a petition in favor of Woman’s sufferage head- ed by Mrs. Horace Greeley pre- sented to the legislature. Mr. Greeley was so outraged that he notified Mrs. Stanton that she would only be mentioned in the Tribune when it was necessary Page 15 thereafter, and then referred to as “Mrs. Henry B. Stanton.” Men were constantly on the alert to find flaws in Mrs. Stanton’s speeches and writing. Rev. Collyer once wrote a letter accusing her of using one of his anecdotes. Her answer was short but pointed: “Dear Mr. Collyer, I have your com- munication about ‘literary righteous- ness’ criticizing me for using one of your anecdotes without giving you credit. But you forget that you belong to a class—-—white male citizens—who have robbed me of all my civil and political rights; so I feel it ill becomes you to call me to account for using one of your little anecdotes. I consider you and your fair sex fair game for literary pil- ferring. Moreover, it is man’s depart- ment in life to dig and delve for jewels, actual and ideal and to lay them at woman’s feet for her to use as she may see fit; and finally, you should rejoice that you have ever said anything that is worth quoting. Sincerely your guiltless purlioner,” E. Cady Stanton. That year when election time came the Republican wagon called for the males of the household. Elizabeth Cady Stan- ton climbed into the wagon and rode to the polls. Here she ﬁlled out a ballot and tried to talk the old Dutch inspec- tors into accepting it. The town was agape at her action. The following day the postman called and offered her ﬁve dollars for her ballot to be framed and hung in his house as a curiosity. Mrs. Stanton afterward admitted that she had thoroughly enjoyed the whole epi- sode. For many years Elizabeth Cady Stan- ton wroteand spoke in favor of women’s rights. After discussing the question of ‘marriage and divorce she would be showered with questions such as, “But what will become of home life when men change their wives every Christmas?” After addressing the Constitutional Convention, a small committee of .men asked her to discuss the points of her speech with them. All were serious and respectful except one, a small man with a crooked legs who tried to be witty at her expense. During a pause he asked in a mocking voice, “Don’t you think that the best thing a woman can do is to perform well her part in the role of wife and mother? My wife has pre- sented me with eight beautiful children; is this not a better lifework than that of exercising sufferage?” Mrs. Stanton viewed him slowly from head to foot. “I have met few men in my life worth repeating eight times,” she said. The members roared with laughter. They clapped him on the shoulder shouting, “There, sonny boy, you have read and Page 16 I1 spelled; you better go.” The scene was heralded throughout the state by the press. For three years the leaders of the suffrage movement adopted the “bloomer dress.” Wherever they traveled the town turned out to View them. Mr. Stanton courageously escorted Mrs. Stanton to the various balls and legislative gather- ings. On the streets the boys would follow them shrieking: “Heigh! Ho! the carrion crow, Mrs. Stanton’s all the go; Twenty tailors take the stitches Mrs. Stanton wears the breechesl ” Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the mother of seven children. These chil- dren she cared for wisely and well. Her home was one of the most delightful in the community. One day Susan B. Anthony wrote her again begging her to write and. speak for the cause. She replied, “Don’t press me too heavily or I shall take time off to have another babyf’ On her eightieth birthday six thousand THE LOAD ON HIS SHOULDER -r ’ CAN TAKE A LOAD OFF YOUR MIND! 23 N. Seventh Street 532 Warren Street CHRESTMAS A$KET$ AT Here is one present that the whole family can enjoy-—a basket of fresh fruits on your Christmas table! quality fruits and vegetables at Barker’s. women gathered in the Hippodrome in New York to hold a convention in her honor. An onyx and silver ballot box was sent by the enfranchised women of Utah. A silver loving cup arrived from the New York City Sufferage League. Tributes, telegrams, letters and gifts poured in from admirers and organiza- tions all over the world. The story is told of King Tyre’s slave who ﬁrst saw the sunrise. He looked to the west while the crowd looked to the east. The king gave as his reason for directing his slaves’ gaze to the west- ward, that one must always turn his back to the multitude if he would go forward. Elizabeth Cady Stanton reso- lutely did this all her life. No speech or article was ever written for popular approval but because it voiced her deep- est and most sincere convictions. She did not live to see the women of America given the right to vote but she had seen great progress made and to the end looked forward with much hope into the future. Always Ready FOR A PARTY ? Has your hair. the crinoline p spirit of Scarlet O’Hara and the sleek modernity of Holly- wood glamor girls? 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Date: 1857

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Text: S'l‘A;'\”l‘0;\. Fl-lZ.\l$l;l‘ll iC.\l)Y. former, was born at johnstown, New York, November 12. 1815, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Livingston) Cady. Her father was a judge of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New York. and her mother was a daughter of Colonel Livingstone of Washington 's staff. From her mother she inherited the spirit and vivacity which dis- tinguished her long career of public speaking ....,....,,ro:,...ai (5., or AMERICAN WoMr.N V, , p...
Show moreS'l‘A;'\”l‘0;\. Fl-lZ.\l$l;l‘ll iC.\l)Y. former, was born at johnstown, New York, November 12. 1815, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Livingston) Cady. Her father was a judge of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New York. and her mother was a daughter of Colonel Livingstone of Washington 's staff. From her mother she inherited the spirit and vivacity which dis- tinguished her long career of public speaking ....,....,,ro:,...ai (5., or AMERICAN WoMr.N V, , p. 47):; 3. girl literary work in behalf of the movement 4322:? woman suffrage and other radical reforms 1;“? her day. She said of her father that while hewas sober and taciturn in manner, his keen .«;c:-=nse of justice moved him to modify the smnewhat military rule which her mother msistetl should prevail in the household. Elizabeth Cady Stanton owed much in her (;»;3i‘ly girlhood to the friendship and guidance ,3_+ Reverend Simon Hosack, who was Pastor ctr the Scotch Presbyterian Church which her -£<gmily' attended in Johnstown. This was a .5?-:atch settlement, in which there prevailed fire old feudal ideas regarding women and ;m;perty'. Elizabeth Cady, as a girl, spent 771$/LC.i1 time in her father's oﬁice, and there, in wugh the complaints of unhappy dependent ~.v':::2ieii, became well acquainted with the in— \'Jb~Sll(.‘€ of the common law. Consequently she v'€5:»lv'ed to do what she could to free her sex «rmrii the disabilities under which they were Then living. In her childish indignation, 'i’V‘llI1l{lI‘lg that her father and his books were -the beginning and the end of the law, she marked obnoxious statutes with a pencil, and }3r:w[)OS€d to cut them out and thus end them. ti;-itteii she was ten years old, her only brother, who had just been graduated at Union College, cited and left her father inconsolable; for, like his neighbors, he believed so ﬁrmly in ~tlme Blackstonian theory of the headship of ‘(ﬁre man, that the loss of his only son was a *’?'€;f-*’E‘ll)l€ blow to his hopes. Elizabeth, desiring fr t1<)IlS()l€‘ her father, resolved to do all that i«~;wl»rothc-r had done. Immediately she began uzml/er Doctor Hosack the study of Greek, (;\JillCl] she continued at the Academy with such success that she secured one of the two prizes offered for proﬁciency in that language. With her prize she went at once to her father, expecting that he would praise her as he would have praised his son, but she records pathetic- ally that he merely remarked, “Oh, my child, if you were only a boy." This incident was a bitter disappointment to the ambitious girl, and, mortiﬁed by the inequality in the condi- tion and the treatment of boys and girls, she i , v 5 l J ! ,4 ed ncl int ‘re, int in- she sex 'ere IOH, /ere she and em. her, ege. fon y hi p of as;1 irhtg that egan reel; with 5 WVO uage. Ither, vouhi aetky child, was a 5 girl, :ondi- s, she BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPAEDIA or AMERICAN WOMEN 65 determined to make herself the equal of men in courage and ability. She became proﬁcient in Mathematics, Latin and Greek. On being graduated from the Academy, she was amazed to ﬁnd that the hope of study at Union College, which she had secretly cherished with the idea of ﬁlling her brother's place, could not be carried out. Her chagrin was intensi- ﬁed by her being sent to Mrs. VVillard ’s Girls’ Seminary at Troy, New York, where, as she records, she spent “two of the dreariest years” of her life. The next seven years she passed at home, reading widely, and under her father's direction devoting special attention to law. In this way she ﬁtted herself to be- come the able opponent of oppressive legis- lation regarding women. In the spring of 184() she married Henry Brewster Stanton, alrezidy well known as a leader and a lecturer in the anti-slavery move- ment. Since Mr. St.Inton a delegate to the World's Anti—Slavery Convention to be held in .London in June of that same year, they went to London on their wedding trip. Mr. Stanton became Secretary of the Conven- tion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s indignation was stirred anew by the imputation of inferiority cast upon women by the refusal of the majority of the Convention to admit Mrs. Lucretia Mott and other American women who had been regularly appointed delegates. In Mrs. Mott she met for the ﬁrst time a liberal-minded thinker of her own sex. The friendship thus begun continued through forty years, and assisted in determining Mrs. Stanton to devote her life and energies to the social, political and moral betterment of women. For six years following her return home she lived in Boston. During this period she made a thorough study of the position of women. As a result, in addition to the woman 's rights claimed by Mrs. Mott--remunerative work, property rights after marriage, ad- vanced education, and independent judgment in religion-—Mrs. Stanton demanded the removal of woman ’s civil disabilities by mak- ing her political status the same as that of man. In 1846 she located at Seneca Falls, New York. With Mrs. Mott and others, she issued the call for the ﬁrst Woman's Rights Convention. It was held at Seneca Falls,- July 19 and 20, 1848, and marked the in- auguration of the Woman Suffrage movement. Although the object of the Convention was deﬁned to be the discussion of the social, civil, and religious rights of women, no allusion being made to women’s political rights, yet in the declaration of sentiments which was prepared as a basis for discussion Mrs. Stanton introduced as the Ninth Resolution a state- ment that it was “the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” Neither her husband——~who had prepared for the Con- vention an abstract of the laws that were unjust regarding the property interests of women-——nor Mrs. Mott approved of Mrs. Stanton’s demand for the ballot. They argued that it would only bring “ridicule on the cause.” Mrs. Stanton persisted, however, and spoke vigorously and eloquently at the ﬁrst session in defense of the proposal. The resolution was adopted, though not unani- mously, by the Convention. This new departure in the movement had few adherents outside the convention. In fact, of those members who signed the Declaration of Senti- ments, many later requested to have their names withdrawn. Judge Cady, alarmed at his daughter’s radicalism, hastened to her home, where he urged her earnestly, but in vain, not only to forego her convictions but to abandon public life. From 1848 to the time of the Civil War, Mrs. Stanton devoted herself to the anti- slavery, temperance, education and woman suffrage causes. She was founder and Presi- dent of the New York Woman '3 Temperance Society, in its early years, and Chairman of the Woman Suffrage Committee of her state. As early as 1854, she spoke before the New York Legislature in advocacy of a higher status for women. In 1863 she founded the Women's Loyal League, and was elected its ..,......_.—-..~.—_.-mouq-. .<....--.., ~v-p_--—ac-y.—.....—...,.-.,¢.w...—. * 66 BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN WOMEN President. The classic address from this society to President Lincoln, signed by Mrs. Stanton, came from her trenchant pen. It is printed in full in the History of Woman Suﬁrage. In 1866, believing women to be eligible to public office, she offered herself as a candidate for Congress from the Eighth New York District. In her announcement, she said: “Belonging to a disfranchised class, I have no political antecedents to recommend me to your support, but my creed is free speech, free press, free men and free trade——-the cardinal points of democracy.” She received twenty- four votes. With Susan B. Anthony and Parker Pillsbury she established, and was Editor-in-Chief, of the Woman's Rights jour- nal called The Revolution. During the two years of its existence, it was the most vigorous and the most quoted of any suffrage journal ever printed before or since. A The Civil War made the people of the United States think nationally, and leaders of the Woman Suffrage movement naturally adopted still broader lines of thought. The National \Noman Suffrage Association was founded in 1869. Mrs. Stanton was its Presi- dent almost continuously until 1893. At the suggestion of Mrs. Stanton and her co- workers, the Honorable George Julian intro- duced in Congress, on March 15, 1869, a joint resolution proposing a Sixteenth amend- ment to the Constitution. It read as follows: “The right of suffrage in the United States shall be based on citizenship, and shall be regulated by Congress; and all citizens of the United States, whether native or naturalized, shall enjoy this right equally, without any distinction or discrimination whatever founded on sex." From 1870 Mrs. Stanton lectured for twelve years throughout the country, eight months each year. She was one of the most popular speakers who ever appeared under the auspices of any lyceum bureau. To her credit is attributed the liberalizing of divorce laws, the opening of higher institutions of learning to women, and the marked growth in Woman Suffrage senti- ment. Throughout this period, Mrs. Stanton was the Samuel Adams of the woman move- ment, for her pen produced all the “State Papers" issued. She it was who drew up the calls to conventions, the addresses to Legis- latures, the appeals to learned bodies, and she it was, also, who made in person, for nearly fifty years, the chief arguments before con- gressional and legislative committees. In 1878, the annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association was held in Washington, District of Columbia. It had been arranged that Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker and Mrs. Lily Devereaux Blake were to conduct the convention, as Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony felt they must continue their speaking tours in the West. Mrs. Stanton had urged upon her co-workers the introduction in Congress of a new resolution calling for a suffrage amendment to the Na- tional Constitution. Between 1869 and 1878 the efforts of the suffragists had largely con- sisted of appeals to courts for interpretations in favor of the enfranchisement of women under the Constitution as it stood. After a meeting in St. Louis, about this time, Mrs. Stanton received a telegram saying that it was imperative that she come to the National Capital and carry out her proposals. She immediately went to Washington and, before both the National Woman Suffrage Conven- tion and the Judiciary Committees of Con- gress, made a plea for a suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution. She persuaded her old friend, Senator Sargent, of California, to introduce the Amendment. This was the ﬁrst time a suffrage amendment had been introduced, the same in form as the Nineteenth Amendment, adopted in 1920. During the years of reconstruction, she and other suffrage leaders had systematically made every effort to amend the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments when they were under consideration by Congress. Their endeavors to influence this legislation in the interest of women, however, met with no 2 \ :3}, .. 3 >1 ,1 i. .« 2 i as It l 61' ere ton iue Irs. the ion Pia- 878 :on- ions . en .fter Wrs. Vvas onal She zfore ven- Con- nerit She 1t,0f nent. Inent sthe 1920. : and icahy eenth vvere 'Then‘ n the 11 no BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN WOMEN 67 success, so that the changes initiated by Mrs. Stanton in 1869 and 1878 were the first I VVoman Suffrage amendments per se. She never laid claim to having “drawn” these amendments. In 1878, as in the later efforts of the suffragists for a national amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment, securing suffrage for colored men, was copied except that the phrase “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” merely gave place to the word “sex.” Although Mrs. Stanton never af- firmed that the wording of the suffrage amendment was other than a copy of the Fifteenth Amendment, it may be claimed for Mrs. Stanton that to her is due the credit of first demanding the passage of a VVoman Suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution, and of carrying out the prac- tical details of its introduction in Congress. In 1888 Mrs. Stanton suggested the forma- tion of the Interna.tional Council of \Vomen. Her suggestion was acted upon, and she pre- sided over the ﬁrst convention. From 1880 to 1886 she devoted her time to the colossal labor of bringing out the first three volumes of the History of VI/oman Suﬂrage. Her co-editors were Miss Anthony and Mrs. Gage. This work was followed by The Woman's Bible, which caused more newspaper comment than any other work fromher pen. In 1897, her reminiscences were published under the title I Eighty Years and Illore. During the closing years of her life she was adding to and re- writing these memoirs. This work, together with her Letters and Diary, edited by her son, Theodore Stanton, and her daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, was published in 1921 by Harper and Brothers. Mrs. Stanton con- tributed many articles to the Forum, the Arena, the Westminster Review, and the North American Review. She was also a constant writer for reform papers and for the daily press. The day she died there appeared in the New York American an article which she had written twenty-four hours earlier, and on her writing desk ready for her signature lay open letters to President and Mrs. Roosevelt urging that a recom- mendation for the consideration of VVoman Suffrage be put in the President's then forth- coming message to Congress. It may be said of her that when she died, on October 26, 1902, she was in the full vigor of her powers. Her ready wit and broad nature, her sympathy with the oppressed, her scorn of wrong, her catholicity of spirit, her love of justice and liberty, her intellectual ability, moral courage, and physical energy, together with her unusual opportunities in youth for wide and sound culture, gave Mrs. Stanton a unique place in the history of American women. It may be recalled, in evidence of the universal esteem in which she was held, that all the great na- tional organizations of women united in doing her honor at a meeting in the New York Metropolitan Opera House on the occasion of her eightieth birthday, and that the centenary of her birth was celebrated in New York City, in 1915, at the largest banquet ever held to do honor to the memory of a citizen of the United States. t 3 I 5
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Date: 1981-06-02
Text: Actor’: donation hops preserve hsioric home W A S H I N G - TON (AP) --The home _ oi womerfs rights leader Elizabeth Cady ‘ Stanton * will be preserved partly through the gift of $11,©w’ from actor Alan V Alda, the Natiﬂﬁm al Park Service . .~ said Monday. M-9* put the Eiizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation over the top in its ‘ drive to buy the home, which was pﬁrohased for $43,090. V The foundation is acquiring property in the Seneca Falls, N.Y.,, area for a Womerfs Rights National Historical‘...
Show moreActor’: donation hops preserve hsioric home W A S H I N G - TON (AP) --The home _ oi womerfs rights leader Elizabeth Cady ‘ Stanton * will be preserved partly through the gift of $11,©w’ from actor Alan V Alda, the Natiﬂﬁm al Park Service . .~ said Monday. M-9* put the Eiizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation over the top in its ‘ drive to buy the home, which was pﬁrohased for $43,090. V The foundation is acquiring property in the Seneca Falls, N.Y.,, area for a Womerfs Rights National Historical‘ Park, which was authorized by Congress last *December. r Aida made the contribution that, 3 Hm e/:1/WW i ¢
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Date: n.d.

Date: 1887

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Date: 1939-12
Text: December, 1939 EQUAL RIGHTS A in Tributes To Elizabeth Cady Stanton W0 CEREMONIES of s p e c i a 1 signiﬁcance were among those held N o- vember 12 in commemora- tion of the 124th birthday anniversary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Each gave to the illustrious pioneer worker for equal rights for men an.d women not only the gratitude of women, but official recognition ‘by her state and national govern- ments. In the Nation’s Capitol in Washington, D. C., before the Adelaide Johnson -statue of the...
Show moreDecember, 1939 EQUAL RIGHTS A in Tributes To Elizabeth Cady Stanton W0 CEREMONIES of s p e c i a 1 signiﬁcance were among those held N o- vember 12 in commemora- tion of the 124th birthday anniversary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Each gave to the illustrious pioneer worker for equal rights for men an.d women not only the gratitude of women, but official recognition ‘by her state and national govern- ments. In the Nation’s Capitol in Washington, D. C., before the Adelaide Johnson -statue of the Equal Rights Pioneers, Elizabeth Cady Stan- POSTMASTER GENERAL URGED TO EXPRESS NATION’S APPRECIATION or MRS. STANTON BY ISSUING COMMEMORATIVE STAMF Elizabeth Cady Stanton were present at the cere- mony. The tafblet marking the site of Mrs. Stanton’s last home was unveiled by her great-granddaughter, Mrs. Harriot Stanton de- Forest Allaben, assisted by her four-year-old daughter, Catherine. Among the speakers were Mrs. Stanton’s granddaughter, Mrs. Nora Stanton Barney, of Green- wich, Conn., and Miss Katherine Devereux Blake, of New York, widely known educator, peace advocate and Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the New York Federation of Women’s Clubs. Miss Blake ton, Susan. B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott, there was held a commemorative ceremony, sponsored by the National Wo-2 man’s Party. T Simultaneozusly with the Washington observance an- other was held in New York City on the site of Mrs. Stan- ton’s last residence, 250 West A 94th Street, where a bronze tablet designating the historic spot was unveiled by the New York Education Department and the National Woman’s Party. Members of Mrs. Stan- ton’s family and state oflicials and Republicans. 1939 Biennial Conference National Woman’s Party WASHINGTON Friday, December 15 Saturday, December 16 DINNER——COSMO‘S CLUB, 7:30 P. M., Fri- day, December 15. Open to the Public. Price ,5! 1.50. Addresses by prominent Democrats Send For Reserrations Immediately knew Mrs. Stanton well. Those arranging the cere- mony were keenly disappoint- ed that Harriot Stanton Blatch, the distinguished daughter of Mrs. Stanton, who has so faith- fully followed in her footsteps, could not be present. The words of her beautiful mes- sage, reverent, intimate and reminiscent, brougght to those gathered together a conscious- ness of a goal yet to be at- tained and a torch still to be carried rather than the closing of a chapter with a. tribute to one who had achieved. were among those attending. -— Mrs. Ethel Ernest Murrell, Florida Chairman for the Na- tional Woman’s Party, in a beautiful eulogy of Mrs. Stan- ton, expressed the gratitude o-f women for the vision, the cour- age and the endless effort of the Woman who 91 years ago dared to ask equal rights for her sex. Mrs. Alma Ambrose, of Bal- timore, Md., chairman of the Eastern Regional Conference, presided, other speakers being Mrs. Ellis A. Schnabel, Penn- sylvania Chairman; Mrs. Elsie Graﬁ, Virginia Chairman; Mrs. George Halsey, Maryland Chairman; Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, D i strict of Co- STATES. FAIRS. MORNING and AFTERSOON MEETINGS, starting 10 A. M., Saturday, December l6— ALVA BELMONT HOUSE. Discussion of IMMEDIATE STEPS for the ADVANCEMENT OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT. Morning Session — PROGRESS IN THE Afternoon SesSion——INTERNATIONAL AF- Th-e Goal Is In Sight! A Come And Help! ANNA KELTON WILEY (Mrs. Harvey w.) National Chairman, N. W. P. MARIE MOORE F0-RREST Conference Chairman “Dear friends and veterans of the Eternal Struggle for Woman’s Freedom,” kw rot e Mrs. Blatch. “I greet you from the deep memories of old: So full «of stirring reminiscences. “This is a well-nigh holy oc- casion that brings. us together here today. We commemorate the anniversary of the birth, one hundred and twenty-four years ago, of my mother, Eliz- abeth Cady Stanton, as well as her endeavors and her achieve- ments on this very spot. “She passed on to us the banners of equality and free- dom to be borne ever forward to the still distant goal. Let lumbia C h ai rm an, National Woman’s Party, and Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley. Mrs. Forrest brought to the gathering a message from Alice Paul, founder of both the National Woman’s Party and the World Woman’s Party, who is now at the World Party Headquarters in Geneva. “The great- est thing the women of the United States can do to help women of the world,” read the message, “is to win the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment. Women of the world look to the United States to set the example.” At the close of the Washington meeting there was sent to Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Eliz- abeth Cady Stanton, ill at her home in Greenwich, Conn., an affectionate greeting expressing disappoin:t- ment at her inability to be present and appreciation of her own great contribution to the cause of women. In New York, three generations of descendants of _ placing the cap-stone upon the ﬁnal victory of W~o=meIi’s rights.” Governor Herbert Lehman, Governor of the State of _New_York, in a greeting said: “It is well that the University of the State of New York decided to mark the location of Mrs. Stanton’s residence. Her work with Susan_ B. Anthony in behalf of equal rights for women entitles her to a lasting place in the record of the suffrage movement.” From Mayor_ Fiorello LaG:uardia, of New York, came the following: “I would like to take this oppor- tunity to pay tribute to the memory of one of the most outstanding women America has known. The right of women to vote and to take an active part and inter- est in the affairs of their government was among the most progressive and important of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s contribution to this cause is worthy of us dedicate ourselves anew to 136 EQUAL RIGHTS December, 1939 tribute and gratitude as never ending as her efforts for its fulfillment were untiring and indefati.gable.” United States Senator James M. Mead, of New York, said: “This tablet to Elizabeth Cady Stanton serves a worthy purpose enriching the memory and commemo- rating one who served so loyally and devotedly the cause of women’s righ .” From Congressman Sol Bloom, of New York, came this tribute: “As one who has always admired the really great work accomplished by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I am particularly happy that this tablet is being erected to her memory. Mrs. Stanton was one of those great pioneers who has done so much to con- tribute to the advancement of the well being and the welfare of the American people.” Alma Lutz, author of a biography of Mrs. Stanton, now being published by John Day and Company, wrote: “I am very sorry that I am unable to be pres- ent at this ceremony to pay tribute to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, for I know that I and every woman in the yvoirld who cherishes freedom owe her a’ debt of grati- u e. “Elizabeth Cady Stanton had the vision, the courage and the determination to work for the emancipation of women at a time when this was a very unpopular and unladylike thing to do. Her interest in women’s advancement went far beyond woman suffrage to equal rights under the law and in all human relation- ships. She also saw that before women could be com- pletely free there must be at great change in their own thinking——a discarding of false traditions and a cul- tivation of conﬁdence in themselves. . . . In 1850, Eliza- beth Cady Stanton made this plea—‘Take down every barrier in woman’s way and let her ﬁnd her own sphere.’ That this statement made 89, years ago is still applicable today is an indictment of our progress. . . . In 1939 as in 1850. there is need to say with Eliza- beth Cady Stanton, ‘Take down. every barrier, in woman’s way and let her ﬁnd her own sphere.’ ” George Gordon Battle, distinguished authority on International Law, said: “Mrs. Stanton richly deserves this tribute of the New York State Department of Education, the National Woman’s Party, and all Mw~omen’s organizations gathered to pay her honor.” ’ I From Vassar College, through Dean. Mildred Thomp- son, came this message: “This occasion and the place both seem to me to be so distinctly important in the history of our country, and especially in the advance- ment of interests of women, that I as the Dean of Vassar College and a Vassar alumnae take pleasure in sending my greetings on this occasion. We are most happy to have our strong connections with Elizabeth Cady Stanton through her daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, whom we are proud to claim as one of our graduates. Vassar in its early days proﬁted greatly by the great zeal of women for the cause of women and by the passionate desire of women over the coun- try to seize the opportunities which were being offered for their development through educational means. We therefore feel ourselves a part of this great movement for the advancement of the cause of women which is so nobly symbolized by the career of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.” Mrs. Ogden” Mills Reid, of the New York H crowd- Tribune, unable to attend, wrote: “Because of my feeling for the family of Mrs. Stanton as well as my admiration for her, I am sad that I cannot even be present at this interesting gathering.” From the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Johnstown, N. W., birthplace of Mrs. Stanton, came the following through its President, Robertene M. Smith: “We who dwell here in Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s early home are deeply moved by your commemoration of the birthday of our townswoman. There are those living among, us still who remember the old mansion of gray brick where she spent her childhood and many happy intervals. in her later years, and who caught from their parents or grandparents at reﬂection of the strength and sanity she shed about her. The old Acad- edy where she studied her Greek and Latin is still standing and served for the schooling of our parents and many of our elder friends. “I read from one of her letters these lines: ‘As I sit beside Hattie with the baby in her arms, and realize that three generations of us are together, I appreciate more than ever what each generation can do for the next one, by making the most of itself and thus slowly building the Jacob’s ladder by which the race shall at last reach the divine heights of perfection.’ “We hope and pray that her spirit is still with us and if ever we doubt its inﬂuence we will gather fresh faith and trust in her mission when we remember the memorial you are raising to her in the heart of our mightiest city.” At the close of the meeting resolutions were adopted petitioning the Postmaster General of the United States to “express the nation’s appreciation of her (Mrs. Stanton’s) character and her achievements through the issuance of a commemorative stamp on the one hundred and twenty-ﬁfth anniversary of her birth, November 12, 1940.” In addition to these two nationally important cere- monies, women in various parts of the country ob- served the anniversary with meetings, radio broad- casts and other tributes to Elizabeth Cady. Stanton, who with Lucretia Mott called the ﬁrst Woman’s Rights Convention and who made the ﬁrst public de- mand that women be enfranchised. What Better Christmas Gift? What better Christmas gift for a woman than a subscription to Equal Rights? Through Equal Rights you inform her concerning her status under the law and in the economic ﬁeld, which means the conditions under which she lives. Through Equal Rights you may inform her how to help to better her status and that of her daughter, her granddaughter and other women of future generations. » Send in $1 for each subscription you desire to give as a Christmas gift, together with the names of those to whom you desire that Equal Rights be sent, and we will notify them in time for Christmas-. Make your contribution to the cause and at the same time make your gift a real gift-—a woman’s gift to a woman! 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Text: The Birth of an Idea "Elizabeth Cedy Stanton has told us exactly when and where the idea of the Seneca Falls Eguel Rights Convention was born. It came to her and Lucretia Mott as they walked together down Great Queen Street, London, on the afternoon of June 12, 1840, just after the first World's Anti~Slevery Convention had refused to seat eight American women delevetes on account of their sex. Mrs. Mott was one of the rejected delegates. Mrs. Stanton was attending the convention as...
Show moreThe Birth of an Idea "Elizabeth Cedy Stanton has told us exactly when and where the idea of the Seneca Falls Eguel Rights Convention was born. It came to her and Lucretia Mott as they walked together down Great Queen Street, London, on the afternoon of June 12, 1840, just after the first World's Anti~Slevery Convention had refused to seat eight American women delevetes on account of their sex. Mrs. Mott was one of the rejected delegates. Mrs. Stanton was attending the convention as a guest. Their husbands were delegates... The convention had opened that morning in the Freemasons’ Hall. Mrs. Mott ene hrs, Stanton, sitting in the railed—off space assigned to women, had listened to e long debate on the question of admitting women as members of the convention. They had heard, the last thing before adjournment, the overwhehming chorus of “noes” that barred women out. They left the hell together, "burning with indignation,“ and resolved on their way back to their lodgings that when they went home they would cell a convention to take up just one thing, - the rights of women." From Lucretia and Elizabeth, by jﬁetherine Fisher
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Date: 1948-07-19
Text: ms? DAY o Issue,”/5% jaiyaj. _ V , 5,1,. V H ‘ ‘ Commsmozatéos Elnaafo/15 £22 /Zone’: of Elzzagstg C7ac{}/ cgfcuzfon FOUNDEROFWOM/\“NYS‘v. ‘" issued on the 100th anniversary of the day she RIGHTS MOVEMENT . V 35., : aL\zAaf;_TH CAQY 0772/ /gm/mg}; submitted the first resolution in the World de- 100 ARS OF V manding the Elective Franchise for Women, PROGRESS BY ~ THE WOMEN Seneca Falls, July 19, 1848. OF AMERICA AH With the compliments of her friends, admirers and descendants.

Date: 1871