![handle is hein.peggy/revol0002 and id is 1 raw text is: PRINCIPLE, NOT POLICY: JUS2IOE, NOT PA VOR.- EN, THEIR RIGHTS AND NOTHING MORE: WOM'EN, THEIR RIGHTS AND NOTHING LESS.
VOL. 1.-NO. 1. NEW'YORR, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1868. SINGLES2 A YE AR.
E COPY 10 CENTS.
The party in power have not only failed
el ' to heed our innumerable petitions, asking
the ,Right of Suffrage, poured into Congress
and State Legislatures, but they have sub-
ELIZABETI[ CADY STANTON, Editors. mitted a proposition to the several states to in-
PARICER PILLSBURY, J sei the word male in the Federal Constitu-
SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Proprietor. tion, where it has never been, and thereby put
up a new barrier against the enfranchisement of
OFIthIcE 37 PARK ROW (ROOM 20.) woman.
This fresh insult to the women of the repub-
SUSAN iB. ANTHONY IN TAMMANY lie, who so bravely shared the dangers and
HALL. sacrifices of the late war, has roused us to more
earnest and persistent efforts to secure those
O, pn readers -will remember some time ago it rights, privileges and immunities that belong to
was announced in all the daily journals that every citizen under government.
Susan B. Anthony was appointed a delegate to As you hold the Constitution of the Fathers
the Democratic Convention, to represent the Wo- to be a sacred legacy to us and to our, children
mad's Suffrage movement in this country. She forever, we ask You to save it from this dese-
accordingly applied ,by letter for a hearing in oration, which deprives one-half our citizens of
the Convention. Her letter was presented to the the right of representation in the government.
Convention by the President, ex-Gov. Horatio Over this base proposition the nation has
Seymour, read by the clerk in aloud clear voice, stood silent and indifferent. While the dotai-
received a most respectful and enthusiastic nant party have with one hand lifted up
hearing, and was referred to the Committee on Two mrLo il.AcK =-N and crowned them
Resolutions. with the honor and dignity of citizenship,
As our readers would, no doubt,. like to know with the other' they have dethroned nnFnr
what radical doctrines the democratic party are MILLION WHITE WOmrn-their own mothers and
now sufficiently developed to applaud, we give sisters, their own wives and daughters-and
the letter below. Let no one say that our de- cast them under the heel of the lowest orlers
votion to the edjication of this party for the of manhood.
last fon r years has 'been in vain :
We appeal to you, not only because you,
Wowl'S SuFRAGE AssocIATION or AO n , I being in a minority, are in a position to con-
37 PAnic Row, Room 20,
New York, July 4th, 1868. sider principles, but because you have been the
ELIZABETU C AD ' party heretotore to extend the suffrage. It was
Ertz~rT CA:OY STANTON, ] e
Mus. HoRAcE G nmm , 1 a the democratic party that fought most valiantly
SusAN B. ANTHoNY, ral m. for the removal of the ,, property qualification
A]3]r HoPPER GIBBONS, J from all white men, and thereby placed the
To the President and Members of the l'ationa poorest ditch-digger on a political level with the
Democratic Oonvention. proudest millionaire. This one act of justice to
GENTLEM x: I address you by letter to ask working men has perpetuated your power, with
the privilege of appearing, before -you during but few interruptions, from that time until the
the sittings of this Convention, to demand war. And now you have an opportunity to con-
the ENFRANCHISEMNT Or THE WOMEN oF AmE- fer a similar boon on the women of the country,
icA; the only class of citizens wholly'un- and thus possess yourselves of a new talis-
represented in the government; the only class man that will ensure and perpetuate your politi-
(not guilty of crime) taxed :without representa- cal power for decades to come.
tion, tried without a jury of their peers, gov- While the flr6t and highest motive we would
erned without their consent. And yet in this urge on you, is the recognition in all your
class are found many of your most noble, virtu- action of the great principles of justice and
ous, law-abiding citizens, who possess all the equality that are the foundation of a repub-
requisite qualifications of voters. Women have lican government, it is not unworthy to remind
property and education. We are not-idiot;, you, that the party that takes this onward step,
lunatics, paupers, criminals, rebels,' nor do we will reap its just'reWard. It needs btt little oh-
bet on elections. We lack, according to servation to see that thbe tide of' progress in all
'your constitutions, but one qualification- that countries is setting toward the Enfranchisement
of sex-whichis insurmountable, 'and thnerefore of Woman. And that this advance, step in
equivalent to a deprivation of the suffrage ; in civilization is destiiie4to be taken in our day.
other words, the tyranny of taxation without We conjure ydu, then, to turn from the dead
representation. . questions of the Vast to the ital 'issues of the
We desire to lay before you this violation of hour. The brute form of slaveryended with the
the great fundamental principle of our govern- war. The black man is a soldier and a citizen.
ment for your serious consideration, knowing He holds the bullet and the ballot in his own
,that minorities can be moved by principles as riglt hand. Consider his case settled. Those
majorities are only by vots, Henca we look to weapons of defence and self-protection can
-you for the initiative step in the redress of our never be wrenched from him. Yours the respon-
grievances. . ' ' sibility now to see that -no new chains be forged
by bondholders and monopolists for enslaving
the labor of the country.
The late war, seemingly in the interest of
slavery, was fought by unseen hands for the
larger liberties of the whole people. It was not
a war between Norih and South, for the princi-
ple of class and caste knows neither latitude or
longitude. It was a war of ideas-of Aristocracy
and Ddnoracy-of Capital and Labor-the
same that has convulsed the race through the
ages, and willcontinue to convulse future gen-
erations, until Justice and Equality shall reign
upon the earth.
I desire, therefore, an opportunity to urge on
this Convention, the wisdom of basing its plat-
form on UNIVERSAL Surrma.o as well as UNrvEn-
SAL AmNsTy, from Maine to California, and
-thus take the first step toward a peaceful and
permanent reconstruction.
In behalf of the Woman's Suffrage Association
of America, Respectfully yours,
SusAw B. ANTHONY.
ANDREW JuJHINSON AND MISS
A VR ONY.
THE cordial manner in which the bondholding
democracy greeted Miss Anthony's letter yester-
day, in Tammany Hall Convention, evidently
astonished the greenback Peadletonians. These
western gentlemen were not aware of the hikh
place Miss Anthony occupies in the estimation
of the eastern democra6y; Her reception was
the more remarkable from the fact, that' the
reading of the President's amnesty proclama-
tion had just been voted down by an overwhelm-
ing majority. Some of the republican papers
say that Miss Anthony's letter was received
with great laughter. Now, lest our readers
should think this laughter was derisive of
Woman's Suffrage, we, being behind the
scenes, hasten to say, that the laughter was
called forth entirely by the inconsistencies of
the republican party, as stated in the letter.
Of course, with the- firm faith of the demo-
cracy in the plenary inspiration of the Consti-
tultion, as handed down by the Fathers, so
gross an interpolation as the word male
in that sacred docpiient could not f'ail to call
out some strong inanifestations. To laugh or
to cry was the question. To cry, the exces-
sive heat of a July sun had so drained the lach-
rymary ducts as to make that impossible, hence
man, being naturally a risible animal, laughter
was yesterday a democratic necessity. Be-
.sides, there are good hits in the letter. You
will laugh yourself, dear reader, over the very
points in this remarkable production that 'Miss
Anthony, no doubt, laughed at herself. No, no,
there was no contempt or derision for Woman's
Suffrage within the sacred walls of Tammany
Hall. On the contrary, the document was re-
ceived most reverently by the President, Gov.
Seymour, NewYork's favorite son, anl present-
ed to the Convention. Republicans may sneer,
but they did 'not do as much for us at(Jhi.
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