E-text prepared by Richard J. Shiffer and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28020-h.htm or 28020-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/2/28020/28020-h/28020-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/2/28020/28020-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Many occurrences of mismatched single and double quotes remain as they were in the original. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook. HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Edited by ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, AND MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE. Illustrated with Steel Engravings. In Three Volumes. VOL. I. 1848-1861. "GOVERNMENTS DERIVE THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED." [Illustration: FRANCES WRIGHT (with autograph).] Second Edition. Susan B. Anthony. Rochester, N. Y.: Charles Mann. London: 25 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Paris. G. Fischbacher, 33 Rue De Seine. 1889. Copyright, 1881, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Copyright, 1887, by Susan B. Anthony. THESE VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE Memory of MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, FRANCES WRIGHT, LUCRETIA MOTT, HARRIET MARTINEAU, LYDIA MARIA CHILD, MARGARET FULLER, SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKE, JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING, MARTHA C. WRIGHT, HARRIOT K. HUNT, M.D., MARIANA W. JOHNSON, ALICE AND PHEBE CAREY, ANN PRESTON, M.D., LYDIA MOTT, ELIZA W. FARNHAM, LYDIA F. FOWLER, M.D., PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS, Whose Earnest Lives and Fearless Words, in Demanding Political Rights for Women, have been, in the Preparation of these Pages, a Constant Inspiration TO The Editors. PREFACE.