Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
WILLIAM L. GARRISON: I wish to make one statement in regard to
General Carey, to show that he does not himself act on consistent
principles, in this matter. The last number of the _Pennsylvania
Freeman_ contains an account of a temperance gathering held in
Kennett Square. That square is for that region the headquarters
of Abolitionists, Liberals, Come-outers, and so forth. In that
meeting women were appointed for Vice-Presidents and Secretaries
with men, and there was a complete mixture throughout the
committees without regard to sex; and who do you think were those
who spoke on that occasion recognizing that woman was equal with
man in that gathering? The first was G. W. Jackson, of Boston,
who made himself very conspicuous in the exclusion of women from
the "World's Convention"; second, Judge O'Neil, of South
Carolina, who spoke at New York, and who was also very active in
the efforts to exclude Miss Brown; last of all was General Carey,
of Ohio; and three days afterward they wended their way to New
York, and there conspired with others to prevent a delegate from
being admitted, on the ground of being a woman; showing that
while at old Kennett they were willing to conform, finding it
would be popular; in New York they joined in this brutal
proscription of a woman, only because she was a woman.
LUCY STONE: I know it is time to take the question upon these
resolutions, but I wish to say one word. When a world's
convention of any kind is called--when the Rev. Drs. Chambers,
Hewett, Marsh, and I don't know how many more, backed up by a
part of those who were in that convention, are ready to ignore
the existence of woman, it should show us something of the amount
of labor we have to do, to teach the world even to know that we
are a part of it; and when women tell us they don't want any more
rights, I want them to know that they are held to have no right
in any world's convention. I took up a book the other day,
written by the Rev. Mr. Davis, in which he sketches the events of
the last fifty years. He states that the Sandwich Islands at one
time had one missionary at such a station; Mr. Green--and his
wife! Then he went on to state another where there were nineteen,
and--their wives! Now these are straws on the surface, but they
indicate "which way the wind blows," and indicate, in some sense,
the estimation in which woman is held. I mention these facts so
that we may see something of the length of the way we must tread,
before we shall even be recognized.
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