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1 Memorial of Caroline F. Corbin for American Women Remonstrants to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, Praying for a Hearing before Congress 1 (1893)

handle is hein.peggy/mccorsuf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 52D CONGRESS, SENATE. Mis. Doc. 2d Session. { No. 28. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. JANUARY 19, 1893.-Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. COCKRELL presented the following MvIEMORIAL OF CAROLINE F. CORBIN FOR AMERICAN WOMEN REMONSTRANTS TO THE EXTENSION OF SUFFRAGE TO WO- MEN, PRAYING FOR A HEARING BEFORE CONGRESS. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Con- gress assembled: The Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage having reported in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States bestowing suffrage upon women, the remonstrants beg the privilege of a hearing before your honorable body. The active propaganda of woman suffrage places your remonstrants in a position of difficulty, to which they invite your earnest sympathy and consideration. Our belief that the best interests of woman and of hu- manity would not be served by the participation of women in legislative affairs, the reasons for which we shall set forth in detail later, involves as one of its fundamental elements the conviction that the labors and excite- ments of public contentions and debates, with the loss of time and strength involved, alre incompatible with those functions of women which men can never assume in her stead, and that they tend to make coarse and hard that nature whose refining and spiritualizing influence is more needful to the progress of the race than any other human agency, and to exhaust those energies which are already inadequate to the duties assigned to them. Not in any emergency which has as yet arisen, there- fore, do we believe ourselves justified in adding to the number of women who run to and fro seeking proselytes, holding conventions, urging aggressive measures, and making public appeals with heated argument and debates, to the loss of that dignity and repose which are the essential qualities of the best type of womanhood. In proof, however, that we are not in the minority, we beg you to consider the fact that, after nearly half a century of persistent agita- tion, the advocates of woman suffrage have been able to enroll under their banner of the twenty millions of American women only an ex- tremely small percentage. Even in a time when the nation at large has been alive as it never was before to ideas of progress and intellec- tual improvement of all sorts, the great mass of American women have steadfastly refused to adopt the idea that the ballot would be in any sense a blessing to them; while the work which is being quietly, but effectively, prosecuted in various parts of the country by women opposed to suffrage proves that they are beginning to be keenly alive :I

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