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1 Women's Rights Tracts 1 (1853)

handle is hein.peggy/woritrac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: WOMAN'S RIGHTS TRACTS,....No. 1. THE RIGHTS AND CONDITION OF WOMEN; A SERMON, PREACHED IN SYRACUSE, NOV., 1845, BY SAMUEL J. MAY, THIRD EDITION. GENESIs, V: I.-I the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him, male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam. GALATIANS, III: 28.-There is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Allow me again to speak plainly to you of the rights and condition of Women. My thoughts were urgently drawn to this subject last Spring, by the fact that, at that time, the people of this State were called, in their primary capacity, to decide whether the sale of intoxi- cating drinks should be licensed-a question of the highest personal, domestic and social consequence-and yet more than half of the peo- ple, the women, were not only not expected, but not allowed to influence, directly, a decision in which they were so much interested. About the same time, the men of our nation presumed to plunge us into the multiform calamities, crimes and expenditures of a war, with- out so much as consulting the women, who will have to share equally, if not to endure the larger part of the losses and sufferings, that are inevitable upon such a measure of folly and wickedness. Again, during the past summer, a large Convention of delegates, elected by the people of this State, have been in session at the Capitol, framing a new Constitution, which ig to affect as vitally the lives, liber- ties, properties, happiness of women as of men; and yet not a female was there to represent the interests of her sex; nor would one hardly 1 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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