Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
Women of Ohio! Whose cheek does not blush, whose blood does not
tingle at this cool, lawyer-like recital of the gross indignities
and wrongs which Government has heaped upon our sex? With these
marks of inferiority branded upon our persons, and interwoven
with the most sacred relations of human existence, how can we
rise to the true dignity of human nature, and discharge
faithfully the important duties assigned us as responsible,
intelligent, self-controlling members of society? No wonder that
so many of our politicians are dough-faced serviles, without
independence or manhood; no wonder our priests are time-serving
and sycophantic: no wonder that so many men are moral cowards and
cringing poltroons. What more could be expected of a progeny of
slaves? Slaves are we, politically and legally. How can we, who,
it is said, are the educators of our children, present to this
nation anything else but a generation of serviles, while we,
ourselves, are in a servile condition, and padlocks are on our
lips? No! if men would be men worthy of the name, they must cease
to disfranchise and rob their wives and mothers; they must
forbear to consign to political and legal slavery their sisters
and their daughters. And, would we be women worthy the
companionship of true and noble men, we must cease longer to
submit to tyranny. Let us rise in the might of self-respect, and
assert our rights, and by the aid of truth, the instincts of
humanity, and a just application of the principles of equality,
we shall be able to maintain them.
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