Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
New York is to hold a Constitutional Convention the coming year.
We want to make a thorough canvass of the entire State, with
lectures, tracts, and petitions, and, if possible, create a
public sentiment that shall send genuine Democrats and
Republicans to that Convention who shall strike out from our
Constitution the two adjectives "_white male_," giving to every
citizen, over twenty-one, the right to vote, and thus make the
Empire State the first example of a true republican form of
government. And what we propose to do in New York, the coming
eighteen months, we hope to do in every other State so soon as we
can get the men, and the women, and the money, to go forward with
the work. Therefore, that we may henceforth concentrate all our
forces for the practical application of our one grand,
distinctive, national idea--UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE--I hope we will
unanimously adopt the resolution before us, thus resolving this
Eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention into the "AMERICAN
EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION."
The Resolution was unanimously adopted.
STEPHEN S. FOSTER said: I wish to suggest that it will be
necessary, first, to adopt a form of Constitution, and that it is
a very important question. Upon it will depend much of the
success of our movement. We have been deeply thrilled by the
eloquence of our friend, Mr. Beecher. We have all felt that his
utterances were the essential truth of God; and the bright
picture he drew before us is a possibility, if we do our duty.
But this state of things will never be realized by us, unless it
is from a united, persevering effort, giving a new impetus to the
Woman's Rights movement. I think it necessary that we should have
a more perfect organization than we can prepare this morning, at
this late hour, and I therefore move that we adjourn to meet in
the vestry this afternoon at four o'clock, to perfect an
organization, and take such further measures for the prosecution
of our cause as may then and there be deemed expedient. (The
motion was carried.)
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