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Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,: 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887Various

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Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,: 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887

Name: Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,: 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887
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Women -- Suffrage -- United States

MISS ANTHONY. Special legislation for the benefit of woman! I will
    admit you that on the floor of the constitutional convention was a
    representative Mexican, intelligent, cultivated, chairman of the
    committee on suffrage, who signed the petition, and was the first
    to speak in favor of woman suffrage. Then they have in Denver
    about four hundred negroes. Governor Routt said to me, "The
    four hundred Denver negroes are going to vote solid for woman
    suffrage." I said, "I do not know much about the Denver negroes,
    but I know certainly what all negroes were educated in, and
    slavery never educated master or negro into a comprehension, of
    the great principles of human freedom of our nation; it is not
    possible, and I do not believe they are going to vote for us."
    Just ten of those Denver negroes voted for woman suffrage. Then,
    in all the mines of Colorado the vast majority of the wage
    laborers, as you know, are foreigners.

    There may be intelligent foreigners in this country, and I know
    there are, who are in favor of the enfranchisement of woman, but
    that one does not happen to be Carl Schurz, I am ashamed to say.
    And I want to say to you of Carl Schurz, that side by side with
    that man on the battlefield of Germany was Madame Anneke, as noble
    a woman as ever trod the American soil. She rode by the side of
    her husband, who was an officer, on the battlefield; she slept in
    battlefield tents, and she fled from Germany to this country, for
    her life and property, side by side with Carl Schurz. Now, what is
    it for Carl Schurz, stepping up to the very door of the Presidency
    and looking back to Madame Anneke, who fought for liberty as
    well as he, to say, "You be subject in this Republic; I will be
    sovereign." If it is an insult for Carl Schurz to say that to
    a foreign-born woman, what is it for him to say it to Mrs.
    Ex-Governor Wallace, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott--to the
    native-born, educated, tax-paying women of this Republic? I can
    forgive an ignorant foreigner; I can forgive an ignorant negro;
    but I can not forgive Carl Schurz.

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Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,: 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887Various

History

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,: 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887

Various

Women -- Suffrage -- United States

MISS ANTHONY. Special legislation for the benefit of woman! I will
    admit you that on the floor of the constitutional convention was a
    representative Mexican, intelligent, cultivated, chairman of the
    committee on suffrage, who signed the petition, and was the first
    to speak in favor of woman suffrage. Then they have in Denver
    about four hundred negroes. Governor Routt said to me, "The
    four hundred Denver negroes are going to vote solid for woman
    suffrage." I said, "I do not know much about the Denver negroes,
    but I know certainly what all negroes were educated in, and
    slavery never educated master or negro into a comprehension, of
    the great principles of human freedom of our nation; it is not
    possible, and I do not believe they are going to vote for us."
    Just ten of those Denver negroes voted for woman suffrage. Then,
    in all the mines of Colorado the vast majority of the wage
    laborers, as you know, are foreigners.

    There may be intelligent foreigners in this country, and I know
    there are, who are in favor of the enfranchisement of woman, but
    that one does not happen to be Carl Schurz, I am ashamed to say.
    And I want to say to you of Carl Schurz, that side by side with
    that man on the battlefield of Germany was Madame Anneke, as noble
    a woman as ever trod the American soil. She rode by the side of
    her husband, who was an officer, on the battlefield; she slept in
    battlefield tents, and she fled from Germany to this country, for
    her life and property, side by side with Carl Schurz. Now, what is
    it for Carl Schurz, stepping up to the very door of the Presidency
    and looking back to Madame Anneke, who fought for liberty as
    well as he, to say, "You be subject in this Republic; I will be
    sovereign." If it is an insult for Carl Schurz to say that to
    a foreign-born woman, what is it for him to say it to Mrs.
    Ex-Governor Wallace, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott--to the
    native-born, educated, tax-paying women of this Republic? I can
    forgive an ignorant foreigner; I can forgive an ignorant negro;
    but I can not forgive Carl Schurz.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,: 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,: 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887

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