Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
The meeting of a convention of men to amend the Constitution of
our (?) State, presents a most favorable opportunity for the
agitation of this subject. Women of Ohio! we call upon you to
come up to this work in womanly strength and with womanly energy.
Don't be discouraged at the prospect of difficulties. Remember
that contest with difficulty gives strength. Come and inquire if
the position you now occupy is one appointed by wisdom, and
designed to secure the best interests of the human race. Come,
and let us ascertain what bearing the circumscribed sphere of
woman has on the great political and social evils that curse and
desolate the land. Come, for this cause claims your most
invincible perseverance; come in single-heartedness, and with a
personal self-devotion that will yield everything to Right,
Truth, and Reason, but not an iota to dogmas or theoretical
opinions, no matter how time-honored, or by what precedent
established.
Randolph--Elizabeth Steadman, Cynthia M. Price, Sophronia
Smalley, Cordelia L. Smalley, Ann Eliza Lee, Rebecca Everit. New
Garden--Esther Ann Lukens. Ravenna--Lucinda King, Mary Skinner,
Frances Luccock.
The officers of the Convention were: Betsey M. Cowles, President;
Lydia B. Irish, Harriet P. Weaver, and Rana Dota, Vice-Presidents.
Caroline Stanton, Ann Eliza Lee, and Sallie B. Gove, Secretaries.
Emily Robinson, J. Elizabeth Jones, Josephine S. Griffing, Mariana
Johnson, Esther Lukens, Mary H. Stanton, Business Committee.
Mrs. Jones read a very able speech, which was printed in full in their
published report, also a discourse of Lucretia Mott's, "On Woman,"
delivered Dec. 17, 1849, in the Assembly Building in Philadelphia.
Interesting letters were read from Mrs. Mott, Lucy Stone, Sarah Pugh,
Lydia Jane Pierson, editor of the Lancaster _Literary Gazette_,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet N. Torrey.[15] Twenty-two
resolutions, covering the whole range of woman's political, religious,
civil, and social rights, were discussed and adopted. The following
memorial to the Constitutional Convention, was presented by Mariana
Johnson:
MEMORIAL.
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